Arthur Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency — 3/14/21 The Art Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency is a $10,000 fellowship awarded to one UC Berkeley graduate student in a Ph.D., Masters,…
Funding Opportunity for Climate Mitigation Projects — 5/31/2019 In support of UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative, the University is soliciting ideas from members of the UC community for off-campus projects that…
The Earth Action Initiative Conference — 3/23/2019 The Earth Action Initiative conference is a community driven and collaborative approach to addressing the multidimensional, intersectional, and complex nature of climate change. The conference is March 23rd in…
Do You Need Funding for Your Campus Sustainability Project? Apply to The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) is UC Berkeley’s Campus Green Fund. TGIF provides funding, via grants, for projects that improve and support UC…
Nico Linesch Boundary Crossing Scholar’s Award — 1/23/2019 The Nico Linesch Boundary Crossing Scholar’s Award is for graduate students to continue Nico’s work and design interdisciplinary internships in government agencies or…
Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainability — 8/20/2018 The Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainability address pressing world needs. This two-year postdoctoral program is unique in that the postdocs link their…
Conflict and Coexistence: Wolves, Sheep, and Land Use Politics in Central Idaho Wolves and humans: the continuing struggle for territory in the US West.
Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development — 5/31/2018 Odebrecht USA and Braskem America invite graduate students nationwide to join them in the search for innovative technologies and methods to promote sustainable and responsible development. The…
Four Funding Programs: “Make Our Planet Great Again” Initiative — 4/6/2018 New funding programs have been launched as part of France’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” initiative. Announced by the President of the French…
MIT Portugal Program Call for Doctoral Program and Advanced Courses — 5/13/2016 MIT Portugal Program, a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) initiative, is a strategic partnership between Portuguese Universities and Research Centers, the…
The Annual Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) — 10/20/2014 Be Part of the Sustainability Solution! The Annual Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) was established to encourage and promote sustainable solutions to…
UC Berkeley Group Wins United Nations Award United Nations SEED grant for sustainable energy development grant will fund a pilot energy project of a solar-based microgrid in an island community in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
Graduate Students in Hermanowicz Lab Named Odebrecht Finalists Graduate students in CEE Professor Slav Hermanowicz's Lab and collaborators received second place in 2013 Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development. The award, which includes cash prizes totaling $65,000, invites university students to search for innovative technologies and methods to promote sustainable and responsible development.
Shinnyo Fellowship — 4/1/13 The Shinnyo Fellowship provides advising and monetary support to undergraduate and graduate students who desire to implement a service, peace-building, and/or sustainable social change project locally, nationally, or globally. Project proposals should be innovative, action-oriented, and emphasize peace-building.
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…
Rankings: Berkeley’s not only super, it’s the greenest UC Berkeley is a member of a totally informal yet stratospherically exclusive club, an elite “supergroup” of six universities worldwide that are regarded head and shoulders above the rest of the throng. (The others are Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, and Oxford.)
A “solar suitcase” brings light and communication to health workers in remote regions — and honors to a public health doctoral candidate Laura Stachel is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Health. She's also an M.D. — an obstetrician who earned that degree at UCSF.
Energy Secretary advances nano science in spare time Apparently the most-Berkeley person in the Obama cabinet, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Ph.D. '76), makes scientific contributions, and news, even while he takes it easy. "In his down time, often while flying somewhere," reported AP science writer Seth Borenstein, Chu "relaxes by tackling a scientific conundrum and stretching the limits of technology."
Energy-efficiency expert (and grad alum) Karl Brown is a champ An instrument box mounted in the depths of a campus classroom and office building is hardly a headline-grabbing weapon against climate change. But because buildings are estimated to be responsible for nearly half of all greenhouse-gas emissions, cutting-edge monitoring systems in fact are crucial tools for reducing global warming.
Joining a global campus network, Berkeley launches a new master’s degree program in sustainability Recognizing the proven leadership of campus faculty and students in addressing climate change, poverty and public health, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in May selected the University of California, Berkeley, as one of 10 universities worldwide to launch a new master’s degree program in development practice.