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7 Tips to Help You Successfully Complete Your Dissertation

Let’s face it - writing is hard! Writing your thesis/dissertation is a lot like long-distance running; it requires isolation, endurance, time, and motivation.  Most doctoral students are running a long-distance marathon for about three years.  Here are seven quick tips to help you organize things well before your final deadline.

10 Financial Support Tips for New Graduate Students

There are numerous options and opportunities to fund your education here at UC Davis, and navigating the options can be tricky. The Financial Support Unit in Graduate Studies is here to provide resources to make sure you strive academically while fully understanding your financial support. The resources we provide below center on fellowship and funding opportunities, priorities for saving before your arrival, and terminology at UC Davis.

How To Join the UC Davis Graduate/Professional Housing Facebook Group

These instructions have been updated in February 2021 to reflect changes in the group membership request process. Instructions

Please note that the UC Davis Housing--Grad/Professional Students group is a student-run Facebook group and that UC Davis Graduate Studies is not administrator. If you still have trouble accessing the group after following all the instructions below, please contact the UC Davis Housing--Grad/Professional Students group administrator.

The GSADC Blog: Can I Get Me Some Resources?!?

I am so excited to bring you the first quarterly GSADC blog of the 2019/20 academic year! It has been a whirlwind of a few months but I am so proud and extremely happy to serve as an advocate for graduate students across the UC Davis Campus. Rather than elaborate about what my day-to-day activities as the GSADC has been like thus far (to put it simply: meetings, meetings, and more meetings!