University Health Services provides a support group for female graduate students Are you a female graduate student? Have balance issues? Need confidence? Feel like and imposter? Join the Graduate Women's Support Group.
Top Dog with Top Dogs: a meet-and-eat event An afternoon of social networking and hot dogs at Alumni House. Admission comes with unlimited food and drink, and costs $3 per student. Register by February 22nd.
Would you like to work in Hong Kong? Learn about opportunities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which is offering an array of faculty positions in one of the world’s most alluring cities.
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.
Quite a semester! It’s been quite a semester. Classwork and research took place along with actions to support our University's core mission and values, and to improve our campus’s operations. In local, state, and national settings, students, faculty, and staff joined to advocate passionately for investing in public education as a common good in a good society.
Ways to get involved: an action-oriented four-part look at the future of UC and other public universities Surveying with concern and alarm the continuing erosion in the landscape of higher education in California and beyond, the deans of the graduate and professional schools at Berkeley got together and concluded that something had to be done.
Two massive black holes are discovered lurking in monster galaxies Astronomers at Berkeley have discovered the largest black holes to date — two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume anything, even light, within a region five times the size of our solar system.
Grad student takes on ’empathy fatigue’ in the workplace Eve Ekman, a doctoral candidate in social welfare, has been exploring the harsh realities of emotional exhaustion in healthcare workers, which can have devastating consequences for their patients and hospitals as well as the workers themselves.
Obama nominates Arun Majumdar as U.S. Under Secretary of Energy A Berkeley-trained engineer, Arun Majumdar Ph.D. '89, is President Barack Obama's nominee to serve as U.S. Under Secretary of Energy.
Berkeley’s first online degree program will address public health workforce need Nap Hosang M.P.H. ’85, M.B.A. ’95 The School of Public Health received final approval December 6 to launch the Berkeley campus’s first-ever…
Perlmutter collects his Nobel Accompanied by his wife, Laura Nelson, and daughter, Noa, Perlmutter and the other newly named Nobelists, their families, friends and colleagues arrived in Stockholm for the start of festivities on Tuesday, December 6.