September 19th
Refreshments
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: Graduate Student Resource Center (GSRC)
Description: Enjoy some refreshments before attending GSO workshops!
Introduction to the UCLA Library
Time: 10:00am - 10:45am
Location: Bruin Viewpoint Room - William C. Ackerman Union (Student Union)
Description: Find out how the UCLA Library supports the academic needs of students. Learn about study spaces, technology, and collections. Explore services that help with research assignments, citations and data visualization, and presentations.
Resources and Strategies for Writing Successfully in Graduate School
Time: 11:00am - 11:45am
Location: Bruin Viewpoint Room - William C. Ackerman Union (Student Union)
Description: Make the transition to graduate-level writing easier by learning about graduate writing services and resources available to UCLA graduate students.
Meal voucher pick up opportunity
Time: 12:00pm - 01:00pm
Description: Register for food below!
InterFaith Student Organization Fair and mixer
Time: 01:00pm - 03:00pm
Location: Bruin Reception Room in the William C. Ackerman Union (Student Union)
Description: Come connect with faith/religion-based graduate student organizations!
Interfaith Friends Mission Statement: Interfaith Friends (provides) a space for grad students to make meaningful connections across spiritual and religious traditions. Faith and practice are important elements for the lived identities of many people. Therefore, we strive to listen purposefully and seek to understand each other as whole and complex human being. We regularly gather to eat, talk, and be together.
Chabad: Chabad at UCLA offers diverse educational, social, and religious programs and experiences to Jewish students and those interested in exploring Jewish heritage from all different backgrounds and levels of prior involvement.
Accessibility Allyship Training
Time: 02:00pm - 03:00pm
Location: Art Gallery - Kerckhoff Hall
Description: The Center for Accessible Education supports over 800 graduate and professional students at UCLA. Though it's commonly misunderstood, disabled graduate students or students who identify as having a medical or mental health disability can receive support from our office. This often can include those things that students often don't think about or don't have experience with from their undergraduate studies, which include qualifying exams, competency milestones, internships or placement requirements, and even dissertations. Disability is a very real thing many graduate students experience and navigate during their studies at UCLA, and CAE is here to support and help make ease that process of receiving support. Join us in a session to learn more about the resources CAE can offer and how disabled graduate students are empowered to utilize the tools available to them to find success.
Students with Disabilities Panel
Time: 03:00pm - 04:00pm
Location: Zoom
Description: UCLA graduate students share personal and professional experiences with balancing life and graduate school as well as discuss resources and opportunities for students with disabilities. Please note that this panel will be held virtually.
Panelists
Arjun Subramonian, 3rd year Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Arjun Subramonian (they/them) is a third-year Computer Science PhD student, Cota-Robles fellow, and NSF NRT-MENTOR fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. Their research focuses on inclusive graph machine learning and natural language processing, including fairness, bias, ethics, and integrating queer perspectives. They are further a core organizer of Queer in AI.
Existential Wellness Resource Panel
Time: 04:00pm - 05:00pm
Location: Zoom
Description: Please note that this panel will be held virtually.
Panelists
Andrew James-McClure
Bruin Resource Center, Director
Amanda Finzi-Smith
First to Go Office, Associate Director
Rachel LaPointe
CARE, Prevention Education Coordinator
Ishia Barajas
Students with Dependents, Program Director
Latinx/Latine Panel/Mixer
Time: 05:00pm - 06:00pm
Location: Bruin Reception Room - William C. Ackerman Union (Student Union)
Description: Come connect with you fellow Latinx/Latine graduate and professional students! Learn strategies to navigate various aspects of student life, get acquainted with student groups such as the Chicanx Graduate Student Association, SOLES, and the Chicanx Law Review, and make new friends.
SOLE - SOLES|SHPE at UCLA prides itself in being an organization that seeks to elevate its members to excel in all aspects of their lives. We celebrate the unique qualities and experiences Latinx individuals contribute in engineering, empowering our members to have confidence in their abilities, regardless of individual circumstances. We envision a future in which all Latinx/Hispanic students are empowered, both at UCLA and in the greater Los Angeles community, to pursue a STEM degree, knowing they are more than capable to achieve high standards.
Chicanx Graduate Student Association - "The mission of the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies is to train a new generation of scholars to research and analyze the life, history, and culture of Mexican-origin people within the U.S., as well as of other Latina/Latino and indigenous populations in the Americas. Addressing local, national, and transnational contexts, the Chicana/Chicano and Central American Studies curriculum at UCLA explores race, class, gender, and sexuality paradigms as they have shaped the history of the field, as well as new directions in the study of Chicanas/Chicanos and Latinas/Latinos, including (1) border and transnational studies, (2) expressive arts, (3) history, literature, and language of Americas, and (4) labor, law, and policy studies."