QBC Graduate Program Retreat

two women watch a research explain a poster presentation.

When	November 4 to 6, 2024
Where	Chaminade Resort and Spa One Chaminade Lane Santa Cruz, CA 95065

When

November 4 to 6, 2024

Where

About the retreat

World-class science as an educational experience

The annual QBC graduate research conference has evolved and grown from separate retreats serving individual graduate programs and their students and postdocs to one encompassing faculty of multiple departments and four graduate programs:

Our annual graduate research conference has become a cornerstone in the training of graduate students. Held at the end of the fall quarter, the retreat performs a vital role for all levels of students:

First-year students are introduced to the breadth of research available to them in pursuit of their PhD degree.
Poster presentations, given by students starting in their second year, are vital to the development of these young scientists.
In addition, four advanced students are chosen by their program to present talks dedicated to the outstanding work they have accomplished during their training at UCSF.

The retreat features sessions of mixed talks posters, and socializing with broad exposure to the many complementary research directions of the four programs. It will offer opportunities for informal faculty/student interactions. These interactions are lively, immensely valuable, and often result in new research collaborations. It is a right of passage, which we believe is in the best tradition of scientific enterprise.

We need your donations

About 160 students are served by this meeting, which is considered a foundational element of their training. However, budget constraints have become severe because of state cutbacks and tuition increases.

We do not wish to reduce our commitment to this facet of student development, and we welcome donations to support this excellence of tradition in training at UCSF that must continue.

Donation categories

$500 to $2,999 Student Advocate	Sponsor recognition
$3,000 Patron	Sponsor recognition Retreat attendance for one representative Display of company descriptive material Participation in career panel
$6,000 Sponsor	Sponsor for DEI event or poster session Retreat attendance for two representatives Display of company descriptive material Participation in career panel

$500 to $2,999

Student Advocate

Sponsor recognition

$3,000

Patron

Sponsor recognition
Retreat attendance for one representative
Display of company descriptive material
Participation in career panel

$6,000

Sponsor

Sponsor for DEI event or poster session
Retreat attendance for two representatives
Display of company descriptive material
Participation in career panel

How to give

Visa, MasterCard, or American Express gladly accepted.
Checks should be made payable to UC REGENTS.
Send to:
Tara Wong
UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry MC2240
600 16th St Rm N457
San Francisco CA 94143

415-476-6671
[email protected]