Fellowships: do people here get them? People do.
Many apply, but few are chosen. Are any of those few from Berkeley? It’s unpredictable, but yes, it definitely happens. Here are some recent cases in point.
For all of us: a town hall, a forum, and two new social media connections
A message from Graduate Dean Andrew Szeri about the upcoming Town Hall, the forum on the economics of higher education, and our new presence on Facebook and Twitter to better serve you.
Deadlines coming up: faculty mentoring awards, master’s candidacy, and more
Upcoming deadlines for Filing Fee application; Candidacy application for a Spring 2012 Master’s degree; Sarlo, Faculty, and Outstanding Mentorship of GSI award nominations.
Ask questions and make suggestions at a Town Hall with the Dean on February 9
Help us improve your experience as a graduate student!
Grad Division goes social
As Dean Szeri mentioned in his message this month, the Graduate Division has expanded its online connections to include Facebook and Twitter.
More graduate funding opportunities for January and February
Find more information about The Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship, Chateaubriand Science Fellowship, Berkeley Language Center Research Fellowship, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, a health care scholarship, and California Science and Technology Policy Fellowships.
‘Search the literature’ gets a whole new ease from a doctoral student
Aditi Muralidharan, a doctoral student in computer science, has changed the nature of literary scholarship by introducing something like human intuition to the process of searching via computer, thereby shrinking what used to take days and months to mere minutes.
Panoramic views of the Costa Rican cloud forest (and Ph.D. research) from a Berkeley-plus team
Greg Goldsmith has his head in the clouds. But the Berkeley graduate student is also firmly grounded in today’s reality: the Central American cloud forests he loves are threatened by global warming.
Top honors will be given to grad alumni by the Cal Alumni Association
Three alumni with Berkeley graduate degrees will be honored March 24 at the Cal Alumni Association’s traditional Charter Gala, being held this year at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel.
LBNL director Paul Alivisatos (Ph.D. ’86) wins the Wolf Prize in Chemistry for 2012
Paul Alivisatos, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and a UC Berkeley professor of nanotechnology, has won the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry for 2012.
