Exploring Intricacies of Interconnectedness with the Study of Plant Microbiomes A look at the impact of community on growth and wellbeing.
Microbial Prospecting: The Search for Marine Bacteria with Quirky Metabolisms Studying the basic biology of microbial life in aquatic ecosystems leads to a deeper understanding of how iodine, an element essential to life, cycles in our environment.
Catherine Portman Burrowing Owl Research Award — 2/28/2019 Criteria for award Open to both undergraduate and graduate students Student must be conducting research on burrowing owls Selection of recipients is…
Science Adventures to Help Curb Extinction Graduate student researcher collects data to help determine the future of the whitebark pine.
How Mentorship and Dissertation Research Feed Each Other My summer as a graduate mentor for the Student Mentoring and Research Teams (SMART) Program.
Hertz Fellowships for Physical, Biological, & Engineering Sciences Ph.D. Students — 10/24/2018 The Hertz Foundation provides unique financial support to the nation's most remarkable PhD students in the physical, biological and engineering sciences. The merit-based annual competition for graduate fellowships consists of a cost-of-education allowance and a personal-support stipend.
ORISE Fellowship Opportunity at Center for Disease Control and Prevention — 1/16/2015 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS) are seeking ORISE…
U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad Field Office Fellowship — 5/21/2014 The U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) is accepting applications for a one-year CBFO appointment (with possibility of extension) in…
Summer School of Molecular Medicine at Jena — 5/25/2014 The Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research of the University Hospital of Jena, Germany, invites young scientists to participate in the Summer School of…
Joanne Wood Scholarship — 4/12/2013 This scholarship was established to assist exceptional students with financial need in obtaining a masters or graduate degree in: business, mathematics, computer science, biology, physics or chemistry.
Berkeley students win a sizable share of environmental fellowships In August, the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation announced the winners of its half-million dollars worth of environmental fellowships and grants for 2011. There were 20 of them around the United States, master’s and Ph.D. students. Four — a fifth of the total — are pursuing studies at Berkeley.
A former Cal student and her grad advisor share a Nobel Elizabeth Blackburn, then a Berkeley professor, challenged her Ph.D. student Carol Greider in the 1980s with some research that clearly wasn’t easy. It…
John W. Gofman: a nuclear chemist who raised questions John Gofman in 1979. Photo: Egan O’Connor In mid-August, John Gofman died at the age of 88. He was widely known in…