The Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and University Microfilms International (UMI) will present three 2015-2016 awards: The WAGS/UMI Innovation in Technology Award This award recognizes the innovative application of technology to scholarship, as shown in the research supporting either … Continued
These fellowships will enable graduate students to work on special projects both to improve the quality of language instruction in their current department and to enhance their professional development as teachers.
While we have our own internal standards for assessing and maintaining academic quality at Berkeley, it’s been gratifying to see that highly regarded national and international measures judge that Berkeley continues to do very well — superbly, in fact.
The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley will grant up to seven awards for dissertation-level research projects with the greatest potential to advance the science and practice of gratitude.
All incoming students – including graduate students and professional school students – are expected to attend one training session, in person, to fulfill a UC Systemwide requirement for violence-prevention education.
These fellowships provide funding for UC Berkeley graduate students conducting various predissertation and dissertation research projects that explore social science issues on an international scale. Three separate fellowships, the Reinhard Bendix Memorial Fellowship, the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, and the … Continued
Do you know personally any students who have applied to graduate schools and are considering Berkeley among their options? Please share your insider knowledge about your program, the faculty, the courses and the research.
At Berkeley today, budding entrepreneurs can test their mettle in competitions, team up with like-minded thinkers, bend the ears of faculty and industry experts, and find guidance toward funding, all on campus or very nearby.
The Berkeley chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha CA, announces its Graduate Fellowships for the 2012-13 academic year. These awards are for students who have exhausted other sources of funding as they enter the final stage of their endeavor. Please … Continued
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.
The aim of this institute is to enable graduate students to excel in all aspects of academic life as they pursue an advanced degree at Berkeley and transition from graduate school to future academic careers.
Ever had questions regarding UC Berkeley’s budget management, financial plans, and general administration? Want to bring student concerns directly to the man in charge?
Welcome back! I hope you took time during the holiday break to recharge your batteries and gain some fresh perspectives on your work and your life. As for me, my perspective was altered by a week in rural Cambodia, doing my small part to volunteer with a medical clinic …
The Berkeley campus quietly received some pleasant news in early January and two Graduate Division staff members played key roles in the reason behind it.
As you read the fond farewell to one Associate Dean and the welcome back to another, you can learn what their areas of responsibility are.
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.
The campus libraries wish you a Happy New Year and, as the new semester begins, provide you with some quick reminders and resources.
From the Monterey Peninsula, committed to public service, and planning to return there? The Clark Foundation may be able to help you with grad school.
Mid-stage humanities and social science Ph.D. students: receive up to $5,000 to support your research and help you formulate an effective dissertation proposal.
One year can change your life. In that time, White House Fellows typically are full-time, paid assistants to senior White House staff, the Vice President, Cabinet secretaries, and other top-ranking government officials. These are demanding assignments, requiring a capacity for … Continued
Although from a small high school in Kentucky that was not academically oriented, Sarah Cowan applied to top colleges around the country, utilizing “a tenacity and hunger than overshadowed fear, uncertainty, and perhaps common sense.”
If you missed the recent fall lectures in the Graduate Council and Graduate Division Lectures series, you’re in luck!
This fellowship program is designed for doctoral students enrolled in an American university who wish to achieve part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory for a period of four to ten months.
Berkeley has its first crop of graduate and undergraduate students in the new the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, which helps financially disadvantaged students from Sub-Saharan Africa. Meet the first three grad students, who hail from Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.
Tinker Field Research Grants fund airfare to Latin America for pre-dissertation research and are available to UC Berkeley graduate students from all disciplines.
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.
We can always count on you to be very frank and thoughtful. We were on tenterhooks waiting for your survey answers to arrive and be compiled, and let out a big sigh of relief when we saw the results.
This fellowship grant supports, up to a maximum of $60,000 per year, postdoctoral research training to qualified applicants studying either diabetes or aging.
A year with leaping lizards and tailed robots, a $60-million-dollar institute for Berkeley, a theory proven 40 years later, a crucial election, and a transition at the very top of the campus food chain.
UHS will be closed December 22, 2012, to January 1, 2013. Get ready for eTang! Meanwhile, learn about your SHIP coverage, including waiving enrollment and what to do after graduation.
Sometimes undergraduates need an extra nudge to prompt them to consider applying to graduate school. It could come from you.
Yes, Berkeley grad students do win these things, and gain thousands of dollars in funding as a result.
Money doesn’t grow on trees. But some of it is in fact available for picking, if you’re willing to invest a bit of effort and persistence.
Researching American politics? Consider a Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship. Apply by December 6, 2012.
ARC Fellows are self-nominated interdisciplinary pairs of faculty and grad students pursuing semester-long collaborative projects of their own design.
NASA sponsors research at its centers and R&D labs by graduate students who can contribute to its strategic goals and missions in the area of space technology.
The NPSC seeks a broad applicant pool for its multi-year fellowships, with special emphasis on underrepresented minorities and women.
A short list of important dates, including deadlines for filing thesis and dissertation, for In-Absentia registration, and for nominating faculty members for mentoring honors. Oh, and holidays!
If this is your last semester at Cal, your SHIP coverage expires January 14, 2013. Learn what to do next at a November 28 workshop.
Make a presentation — an an individual or as part of a panel — on emerging research on race, gender, and their intersections.
This is a three-year award for U.S. citizens or nationals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, … Continued
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.
These fellowships, for 12 months of full-time dissertation research and writing, are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in … Continued
If you’re going to teach, knowing how students really learn is an advantage.
Learn about everything on the ballot, including the temporary-tax-for-education measure, Prop. 30.
Two UC Berkeley alumni, both national leaders in their fields — one in fighting poverty, the other in battling disease — are among the 23 Americans named as this year’s recipients of coveted MacArthur Fellowships.
Since 1984, this program has provided research opportunity and career development for scholars whose work will enhance the diversity of the academic community at the University of California.
The California State University provides loans to students pursuing doctoral degrees who thereafter would like to teach in the CSU, the largest higher education system in the United States.
Have you updated your WarnMe contact options? WarnMe is a campus service that exists to save live, including yours.
The IDRF offers 9 to 12 months of support. Fellowship amounts vary depending on the research plan, with a per-fellowship average of $20,000. Eighty fellowships are awarded annually for empirical and site-specific research that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies.
These hands-on, practical workshops cover a wide variety of topics related to teaching and the GSI experience at the university level. They’re presented by the Graduate Division’s GSI Teaching and Resource Center.
Writing and editing are a large,— but tamable — beast in the lives of many graduate students. Find out how to make them do what you want as you work on your dissertation, grant proposal, and more.
Bring the graduate student perspective to Tang Center leaders as a member of the Student Health Advisory Commiittee. Also: a workshop with lots of how-to information about breastfeeding your baby.
My message this time is directed to students who hold U.S. citizenship, and it can be summed up in two words: please vote! A vital first step is registering to vote, and the deadline for that is October 22. Here’s how.
Jessica Ling, Ph.D. candidate in English, was awarded the Yoshiko Uchida Endowed Scholarship, which assists Asian graduate students who want to become writers. With the help of her fellowship, Jessica is pursuing research on the nineteenth-century novel.
Graduate students: whether you’re among the 3,000 newcomers or the 7,000 returnees, here are some tips worth noting, from the Graduate Dean.
Technical things, but important: you need to be registered; when to expect stipend payments; setting up Electronic Funds Transfer; international students need to complete tax forms.
Tips on how to get the most out of the 11 million items in Berkeley collections, from the experts.
Berkeley people — including grad alumni — are at the heart of a vital resource where you can find out, online, how all of earth’s known frogs, toads, and salamanders are doing.
A Public Health alumna (and professor), Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, shocked by what junk food had done to young teeth in parts of the world where decay had been nearly unknown, founded a volunteer project that’s now saving smiles in five countries around the world.
Fellowships with deadlines in September and October 2012.
This multi-session two-day conference, now in its 39th year, will be held October 12–13, 2012, at Saint Louis University. The featured speaker, giving a memorial lecture on manuscript studies, will be independent scholar David Ganz, on “The Importance of Half … Continued
Message from the Dean: What do the afterglow of the Big Bang and the influence of facial hair on 19th-century American presidential politics have in common? The new SMART program, being piloted this summer with graduate students mentoring undergrads in hands-on research.
UC Berkeley wasn’t always what you see today. In 1868, and for some years thereafter, it was just a start-up. Now, after 144 years of climbing and accomplishment, Berkeley is, by a wide spectrum of measures, a world leader. Earlier … Continued
Important summer break hours, student health insurance plan for 2012-13, and how to waive your UC SHIP enrollment.
The first-ever fellowship award from the Philip Brett LGBT Fund was made this spring by a faculty committee choosing from a highly competitive field of 19 applicants. The winner was Chris Atwood, a Ph.D. student in Italian Studies. He is … Continued
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.
Two alumni who happen to be star-quality technology executives came back to Berkeley in May to give graduation speeches. Expect change and profit from it Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe Systems returned on Saturday, May 19, to address the … Continued
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to build the nation’s capacity for leadership and research that addresses the multiple determinants of population … Continued
The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for its 2013-2016 fellowship competition. Four three-year postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded (one in any discipline represented by the society, one … Continued
The purpose of this award, up to $2,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year, is to support graduate student research in plastics as they relate to health, the environment, and global waste and recycling systems. The specific project … Continued
Dear Graduate Students, As the spring semester drew to a close, I enjoyed several opportunities to celebrate great teaching by graduate students. At the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award ceremony on the first of May at International House, we acknowledged … Continued
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.
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.
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.
This September, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation will present its 13th international conference, which is expected to attract 150 academic and industry scientists from around the world who seek to accelerated the development of innovative treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and … Continued
With funding from the Council on Library Resources/Digital Library Federation, the UCLA Library has created a new postdoctoral fellow position in data curation. Geared for a recent Ph.D., the new position will be part of the UCLA Library’s eScience team, … Continued
Nazanin Shahrokni, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Berkeley, has been awarded one of six national 2012 Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowships. Shahrokni’s dissertation is titled “Gender Segregated Spaces: Traversing the “Public” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Since … Continued
Tulane University math professor Ricardo Cortez, who is internationally regarded as a leading researcher in fluid dynamics and mathematical modeling, has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the Blackwell-Tapia Prize, which will be presented in November. In 2010, Cortez … Continued
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.
Applications are being accepted through June 2, 2012, for the 2012 Battelle/NOGLSTP Out To Innovate Scholarships. The scholarships, funded at a minimum of $5,000 each, will be awarded for the fall, 2012 academic year. Students currently enrolled at any U.S.-based college or … Continued
Graduate students are important users of the University Library, and University Librarian Tom Leonard wants your input on which ways the Library will change in the next few years. He says “I ask that you take the time to answer … Continued
Not all aspects of a dean’s job bring smiles; it’s hardly possible to please everyone all the time. That said, there are events during the year that irresistibly bring a smile to my face, and make a lot of people … Continued
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 … Continued
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.
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.”
We last reported on doctoral candidate Laura Stachel in 2010, when she won the Graduate Student Award for Civic Engagement at the Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service ceremony in 2010 and also became a Bay Area winner of the Jefferson … Continued
Airport Berkeley An unexpected visitor used the grass outside of Sproul Hall as a landing field one day in early April. Safely on the ground, the flyer, a full-grown pelican of indeterminate age, ignored the humans streaming by, who were … Continued
Through its short-term seminars, the Fulbright International Education Administrators Program can help U.S. higher education administrators establish lasting connections within the social, cultural, and education systems of other countries. Selected administrators have the opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge about the … Continued
The Rotary Club of Berkeley is accepting applications for the competitive Rotary International Global Grant Scholarship for Graduate Studies. The grant is $30,000 for graduate-level study or research abroad at a foreign university in specific countries during the 2013-2014 academic … Continued
The Social Science Research Council is accepting applications for the Rachel Tanur Prize for Visual Sociology. The prize recognizes students in the social sciences who incorporate visual analysis in their work. Up to three prizes will be awarded at the Second … Continued
I Run 4 Cal is an all-skill-level charity race to encourage donations to campus departments, scholarships, programs, and student groups. Cal students, staff, and alumni will run (or walk) through Sather Gate and along a five-kilometer course on campus. The … Continued
Dear Graduate Students, Your future selves are out there — graduate alumni of Berkeley. Some of them are very far from campus, oceans away, but they remain surprisingly close. I spent a week recently visiting alumni at events in Shanghai, … Continued
It was not hard for a good time to be had by all. The atmosphere was convivial, the mood was celebratory, there were plenty of people to talk to, and — always a priority for grad students — there was … Continued
On February 15, two normally quite separate entities got together — to exchange ideas and information, and to simply get to know each other better. That was the plan, and it clearly worked. They spent the entire afternoon together, and … Continued
Find out more about the Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Operation HOPE Fellowships and the Shinnyo Fellowship.
In the late afternoon of February 9, students and staff gathered in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall for a first-time Town Hall with the Graduate Dean. Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly, this occasion offered a direct and relatively … Continued
The University Library is quietly launching a pilot program to enable library users to return checked out materials from any campus library to any other campus library. They’re not quite ready to announce this to all library users but would like graduate students … Continued
Grad students and grad support staff: this is a special notice to encourage you to put in a presentation proposal for the upcoming Stay Day conference. The event is in May, but the proposal deadline is coming right up! What … Continued
The Graduate Social Club is holding its annual Bay Cruise Saturday, April 7 from 7:30 to 11p.m., aboard the San Francisco Belle, a three-level 292-foot stern-wheeler. The cruise will depart from Pier 3 in San Francisco. DJs, drinks, snacks, and fun! … Continued