Berkeley Academic Senate’s 2012 top honor goes to former chancellor Robert Berdahl and professor-alumna Marian Diamond At a dinner in May, the UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate gave its highest honor, the Clark Kerr Award, to two people with high-profile connections to the Berkeley campus, Robert M. Berdahl, who was Berkeley's eighth chancellor, and Marian C. Diamond, professor emeritus of integrative biology and a world-renowned brain researcher.
Tips from Berkeley-trained CEOs Two alumni who happen to be star-quality technology executives came back to Berkeley in May to give graduation speeches.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Postdoc — 9/21/2012 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of…
Princeton Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships — 10/1/2012 The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for…
Mark Gorrell Zero Waste Graduate Fellowship — Open Deadline One word: Plastics The purpose of this award, up to $2,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year, is to support graduate student research…
GSIs (and their mentors) are central to Berkeley’s teaching mission Dear Graduate Students, As the spring semester drew to a close, I enjoyed several opportunities to celebrate great teaching by graduate students.…
Out of thousands of dedicated GSIs, 276 are named especially outstanding Their departments nominate them, a GSI-related faculty committee selects them, and colleagues, family, and friends come together to honor them in a commencement-like ceremony. What it all means is that they're already pretty darn good teachers.
GSI honors for a dozen new ways of helping people learn These 12 people, in some ways the crème de la crème of this year's top graduate student instructors, have effectively, and often cleverly, identified, addressed, and documented a teaching problem they encountered and, for the benefit of all, told how they solved it. Read, for instance, how Sonja Schwartz reinvented the bean jar.
The key to totally surprising a mentor: no leaks So far, nobody’s let the cat out of the bag, so the surprise has been total in every case. Despite Berkeley’s long tradition of protest and California’s reputation for spontaneity, faculty members here simply don’t expect to be interrupted by outsiders while they’re teaching a class. When it dawns on them that the invasion brings unexpected but happy news for them personally, decorum goes out the window.
Conference opportunity: ADDF offers ten 2012 Young Investigator Scholarships This September, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation will present its 13th international conference, which is expected to attract 150 academic and industry…
Postdoc opportunity: UCLA Library eScience With funding from the Council on Library Resources/Digital Library Federation, the UCLA Library has created a new postdoctoral fellow position in data…
Sociology’s Nazanin Shahrokni receives a Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship Nazanin Shahrokni Nazanin Shahrokni, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Berkeley, has been awarded one of six national 2012 Woodrow Wilson Women’s…
Grad alum Ricardo Cortez, now at Tulane, wins the prestigious Blackwell-Tapia Prize Ricardo Cortez (photo: Paula Burch-Celentano) Tulane University math professor Ricardo Cortez, who is internationally regarded as a leading researcher in fluid dynamics…
Berkeley doctoral candidates Mont Allen, Robert Harkins, Bruno Reinhardt, and Bharat Venkat win prestigious Newcombe Fellowships Out of a field of 550 applicants, 21 winners of the 2012 Newcombe Fellowship were just announced, and Berkeley graduate students won four, nearly a fifth of the total.
Battelle/NOGLSTP Out to Innovate Scholarships Applications are being accepted through June 2, 2012, for the 2012 Battelle/NOGLSTP Out To Innovate Scholarships. The scholarships, funded at a minimum…
Help determine the Library’s future (by May 31) Graduate students are important users of the University Library, and University Librarian Tom Leonard wants your input on which ways the Library…
Mentoring comes of age at Berkeley Not all aspects of a dean’s job bring smiles; it’s hardly possible to please everyone all the time. That said, there are…
Grad-student-led project gets a first prize in the Big Ideas @ Berkeley contest Acopio, a social venture that translates from the Spanish as "harvest," picked up the $10,000 first-place prize in the Big Ideas scaling-up category, which helps previous contest winners advance existing projects. The information technology-based, development venture aims to improve the circumstances of rural, small-hold coffee farmers and cooperatives in Latin America.
Cal grad student John Osborn and undergrad Reginald James win two of the first AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarships Of the half-dozen students selected to receive the new scholarships, two will use them at Berkeley, one pursuing a graduate degree, the other an undergraduate --- together comprising one-third of the first awards, if you're counting.
Google’s Eric Schmidt and two other grad alumni receive high Cal Alumni Association honors The magnitude of what the faculty and the students did back then still makes Schmidt reflective. “The consequence of our research,” says the self-confessed former nerd, with “our” meaning all those physicists and semiconductor-makers and others, “is that another five billion people will join the global conversation. That’s billion with a b.”