CAPS provides an array of groups, workshops, and forums for our graduate and professional students. Our offerings this quarter are: 

Graduate Student Support Group

Do you ever feel overwhelmed?  Wonder how you can balance all the demands in your life? Concerned about relationships with your roommates, colleagues or advisors?  Wonder if you can make a love relationship work?  Then come to this support group designed to help you live successfully as a graduate student at UCSD.  You have invested years of work and study to reach your goals, why not invest a short time each week to help you function at your best? 

Graduate Women in Science Forum (WISE)

A support group for women in the science fields where women are underrepresented.  Discussion topics are selected by group members.   This group will facilitate the development of: 1) a sense of community where each person enjoys a feeling of belonging, 2) support toward the attainment of goals, 3) self-empowerment in creating and maintaining visions for one’s personal and professional life.

Graduate Women of Color Forum

Drop in gathering for graduate women who are seeking support and would like to connect with other women of color. Topics can include Seeking out support and resources, navigating the political system, having to prove yourself as a minority student, race and class issues, working successfully with your advisors, and gender dynamics.

Questioning career Transitions for PhD Students

A five-session series, aims to help Ph.D. students work through questions about continuing an academic career track, discern types of work and environment that match individual skills and personality, identify transferable skills developed as a Ph.D. student, and examine values, priorities, alternatives, and goals for career next steps.

For more group, workshop, and forum information, please visit our Groups page.