Know your CalFresh Rights through the Food Justice Project The Food Justice Project serves UC Berkeley students who have been denied CalFresh benefits. With the understanding that hunger on college campuses…
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Scholarships — 10/1/2018 This program is open to all recent Ph.D. recipients and doctoral candidates in the social sciences or law. The Academy Scholars Program…
Meet the 2018 Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellow: Mark Leinauer An interdisciplinary research project investigates anti-gay bias in child custody courts.
One Block, Two Worlds Kevin Weaver, studying at Berkeley Law, explores social justice issues in education and on the Berkeley streets.
Sciences Po Teaching Fellowship Positions Sciences Po welcomes applications from post-doctoral and doctoral students close to their thesis submission for teaching positions on one of its three…
Call for Papers — OLPP Graduate Student Conference 2017 — 3/17/2017 McMaster University’s Philosophy announces the Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership Graduate Student Conference on June 16 – 17, 2017, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada. Keynote speakers…
American Bar Foundation Fellowships — 12/1/2015 The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is dedicated to advancing justice through rigorous research on the law, legal practices, and the law’s impact…
Berkeley Food Institute: Making a Global Difference in Our Food What makes a fair and sustainable agricultural system? How does the manner is which our food is harvested impact our health? How…
New Environmental Law Clinic Provides Hands-On Experience The Berkeley School of Law recently announced the launching of the environmental law clinic in the fall of 2015.
Volunteer Opportunity With the Office of the Attorney General The Office of the Attorney General is seeking applications from undergraduate students, graduate students, law students, and recent law school graduates who…
Obama Taps Berkeley Law School Alumna as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Last month, President Barack Obama nominated law school alumna Maria Echaveste ...
Law Student Wins Baylor’s Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition Collin Tierney prevailed in a rigorous competition to win the 2013 Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition.
A springful of great lectures The University of California, Berkeley, sponsors a variety of public lectures. The lectureships present eminent scholars, Nobel laureates, and prominent figures to the University and San Francisco Bay Area community. Graduate Council and Tanner Lectures are free and no tickets are required.
University of California Human Rights Fellowship — 2/21/2013 The Human Rights Center is holding its annual competition for student fellowships in partnership with organizations working on human rights issues. Registered students at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union are eligible, with priority given to graduate and returning students.
Switzer Environmental Fellowship — 1/10/2013 The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation specifically seeks innovators and problem-solvers who have the ability, determination, and integrity to become environmental leaders in the 21st century.
Speciesism seminar November 15 and beyond A series of seminars and public outreach events aimed at inspiring a global dialogue on the relationships of humans to the rest of the natural world.
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.
The Spring 2012 menu of Tanner and Graduate Council Lectures Samuel Scheffler, Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, Jonathan Barnes and Peter Singer
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.
What UC Berkeley is worth to California In the course of a March discussion in the State Capitol about the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, which is exploring the development and use of safe chemicals as well as ways to impact public policy, State Senator Joe Simitian had some specific things to say about UC Berkeley’s immense value to California’s economy.