Lactation Facilities - There is also a lactation room in the department. Please ask the SAO.
The Job Search Resources page of this site provides resources for jobs during your time as a student and post-graduation.
FSPH Career and Professional Development provides individual career counseling, on-campus recruiting, workshops, employer presentations, mock interviews, career fairs, and online job postings.
The FSPH Director of the Career & Professional Development Office, Kristy Sherrer, has created Slack channels for jobs, internships, and CPDO workshops and events.
Handshake provides a listing of events, opportunities, and workshops for professional development.
CHS Group on LinkedIn: Connect professionally with CHS students, alumni, faculty, and staff
National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) provides professional development and mentoring opportunities for faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs. Instructions on how to register with UCLA:
Visit www.FacultyDiversity.org
Select the “Become a Member” tab
On "Choose Your Membership Type" select “Institutional Sub-Account” and click Continue
On the “Select a Username” page use your UCLA e-mail address in the Username box
Complete the registration process
Experiment: Experiment is a platform for students and faculty to crowdfund small projects. The company was founded by a young scientist who hit the walls on traditional funding sources and figured out a way to fund small projects through crowdsourcing.
Cold Turkey: Cold Turkey is a productivity program that you can use to temporarily block yourself off of popular social media sites, addicting websites and games so that you can get your work done!
SelfControl: SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet. Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click "Start." Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites--even if you restart your computer or delete the application.
StayFocusd: StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.
The UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center offers several free, short mindfulness practices on their website. They also offer classes in series and as daylong retreats.
Meditation Oasis is a website offering lots of resources, including a free weekly podcast of guided practices. Especially recommend are "Simply Being" (8:01), "Letting Go" (15:15), "Effortless Meditation" (12:36), and Relief from Stress and Pressure (22:57). "Breath Awareness Meditation" (9:27) is a good introductory practice to mindful awareness with a focus on breathing. Visit their website (link is external)or on the iTunes store (search "Meditation Oasis").