UCR GradSuccess

Now hiring for a GSRC Lead Consultant for the 2026-2027 academic year. GSRC Lead Consultants engage with members of the campus community to develop and execute events for the enrichment of the graduate student community. This position is a Graduate Student Assistant (hourly; not union represented) at $30/hour (maximum 19.5 hours/week) with GSHIP and fee fellowship (non-resident tuition is NOT included).

Join us on Wednesday June 3rd from 3–4 PM in the Spieth Courtyard for our weekly Coffee Social! Enjoy free coffee, tea, and snacks while connecting with fellow grad students and postdocs. Don’t forget to bring your student ID.

Stop by to learn more about the resources and services that UCR's Basic Needs has for you.

Learn how LLMs work—tokens, attention, training—and apply them to literature review, coding, and text analysis. Register at WC Online: https://loom.ly/VeAUNL0

The UCR Library Graduate Research Core Competencies Badge is designed to support graduate students at all stages of their research journey by building practical, transferable skills essential to scholarly work.

Participants develop strategies for:
•Effective citation management using tools like Zotero and Paperpile
•Scholarly communication — ORCID, researcher identity, and open access
•Responsible research data management and open data publishing
•Advanced literature review techniques including systematic and scoping reviews
•Publishing & sharing theses, dissertations, and research articles
•Graduation requirements — formatting, ProQuest, and Graduate Division workflows

Modules can be completed in any order, at your own pace. A badge is awarded upon completing all graded assignments.

Enroll now: https://elearn.ucr.edu/enroll/HJ8D8K

Join us tomorrow Wednesday May 27th from 3–4 PM in the Spieth Courtyard for our weekly Coffee Social! Enjoy free coffee, tea, and snacks while connecting with fellow grad students and postdocs. Don’t forget to bring your student ID.

Stop by to learn more about the resources and services that The Well has for you.

The UCR Graduate Writing Center's Writing Circle is back, a dedicated space to focus, write, and stay on track with your writing goals.

This weekly 3-hour writing circle is open to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, hosted both on campus and via Zoom.

📅 When: Tuesdays, Week 1 – Week 10
🕑 9:00am – 12:00pm
📍 Where: GradVantage (Rivera Library, Room 159) & Zoom

🔗https://loom.ly/khj4VtY

Are you passionate about inspiring the next generation of scholars?

UCR STEAM Academy 2026 is looking for Faculty, Postdocs, and Graduate Students to design and teach high-impact, interdisciplinary courses for Middle School students this summer!

Our goal is to use STEM as a tool for Social Good, using the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to solve real-world problems. We want instructors who can guide students through "productive struggle."

Courses run June 22 – July 17

Apply here:
https://loom.ly/VbtTPJ4

This workshop will go over methods of how to create data matrices, how to align DNA sequences and finally how to create phylogenetic trees using differing methods. Register at WC Online: https://loom.ly/VeAUNL0

See the GradQuant LaTeX video to get started with LaTeX, and make a Zoom appointment with one of our GradQuant consultants for personal help https://loom.ly/zacRlvE

The UCR Library, RAISE@UCR, GradSuccess and XCITE are lunching the first AI Graduate Research Brown Bag Series. Join us for an informal seminar on the innovative graduate student research happening at UCR. All are welcome to come watch!

📅 Wed, May 27
🕑 12pm - 1pm
📍 Orbach Library, 2nd Floor Room 240

Free Pizza and Refreshments are provided!

Register Now: https://AIBrownBagSpring2026.eventbrite.com

Learn how LLMs work—tokens, attention, training—and apply them to literature review, coding, and text analysis.

Wednesday June 3rd
10am - 12pm
Zoom

Register at WC Online: https://loom.ly/VeAUNL0