Upcoming Events
Winter 2025
Leadership Training Retreat on Emotional Intelligence and Communication
What: This full-day, in-person interactive workshop is designed to help graduate students and postdoc scholars thrive in a professional environment, deal with conflicts, and be effective leaders and team members. The topics have all been developed with a focus on research groups and the academic environment. The training will provide strategies for effective integration into a Ph.D. program, the lab, and the department, as well as, offering a forum for trainees to share experiences with peers and build community.
When: Friday, January 24, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Where: CHS 17-256 (Sunset Room)
Grad School Hacks: First Year Social
What: An open judgment-free forum for students to share and reflect on their research rotations and first-year experiences with their peers and GPB directors.
When: Thursday, January 30, 2025, 5:00 – 6:30 PM
Where: La Kretz Garden Pavilion 100 and 101
Bioscience Women’s Circle Galentine’s Lunch
What: A safe space for women-identifying members of the UCLA biosciences to further community support and engagement. For woman-identifying community members in the biosciences (inclusive of graduate students, postdocs, faculty, & staff).
When: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Where: La Kretz Garden Pavilion (LKGP)
Competitive Edge Lunch
What: This is a community building event tailored to those that have participated in the Competitive Edge Summer Program but open to all UCLA Bioscience graduate students to further support engagement initiatives within Graduate Programs in Bioscience at UCLA.
When: Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Where: TBA
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Bioscience Women’s Circle Workshop
What: A safe space for women-identifying members of the UCLA biosciences to further community support and engagement. For woman-identifying community members in the biosciences (inclusive of graduate students, postdocs, faculty, & staff).
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Where: TBA
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Postdoc Events
Winter 2025
Leadership Training Retreat on Emotional Intelligence and Communication
What: This full-day, in-person interactive workshop is designed to help graduate students and postdoc scholars thrive in a professional environment, deal with conflicts, and be effective leaders and team members. The topics have all been developed with a focus on research groups and the academic environment. The training will provide strategies for effective integration into a Ph.D. program, the lab, and the department, as well as, offering a forum for trainees to share experiences with peers and build community.
When: Friday, January 24, 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Where: CHS 17-256 (Sunset Room)
Bioscience Women’s Circle Galentine’s Lunch
What: A safe space for women-identifying members of the UCLA biosciences to further community support and engagement. For woman-identifying community members in the biosciences (inclusive of graduate students, postdocs, faculty, & staff).
When: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Where: La Kretz Garden Pavilion (LKGP)
Postdoc Research Mentor Training
What: The objective of the workshop is to enrich current mentoring practices by providing mentors with evidence-based approaches to research mentoring while offering a forum in which to solve dilemmas. This training comes from the Center For the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) and the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN).
When: Friday, March 7, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Where: TBA
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Bioscience Women’s Circle Workshop
What: A safe space for women-identifying members of the UCLA biosciences to further community support and engagement. For woman-identifying community members in the biosciences (inclusive of graduate students, postdocs, faculty, & staff).
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Where: TBA
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Faculty Events
Winter 2025
Bioscience Women’s Circle Galentine’s Lunch
What: A safe space for women-identifying members of the UCLA biosciences to further community support and engagement. For woman-identifying community members in the biosciences (inclusive of graduate students, postdocs, faculty, & staff).
When: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Where: La Kretz Garden Pavilion (LKGP)
Bioscience Women’s Circle Workshop
What: A safe space for women-identifying members of the UCLA biosciences to further community support and engagement. For woman-identifying community members in the biosciences (inclusive of graduate students, postdocs, faculty, & staff).
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Where: TBA
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Spring 2025
Faculty Research Mentor Training
What: The objective of the workshop is to enrich current mentoring practices by providing mentors with evidence-based approaches to research mentoring while offering a forum in which to solve dilemmas. Encouraged for faculty who have not previously participated in mentor training at UCLA.
When: Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Where: TBA
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Advancing Mentoring Practices Refresher
What: The objective of the workshop is to enrich current mentoring practices by providing mentors with evidence-based approaches to research mentoring while offering a forum in which to solve dilemmas. Only for faculty who have previously participated in full-length mentor training at UCLA. The refresher is recommended every 3 years.
When: Friday, June 6, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Where: Zoom
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