Meet Berkeley Graduate Division Dean, Fiona Doyle Going from all-girls schools to the engineering world, was a culture shift that gave Dean Doyle a first-hand learning experience with diversity.
Graduate Student Team Builds Light Installation for Urban Mobility In December, light installations used to collect data and improve urban living, were placed throughout San Leandro as part of the class, Sensing Landscapes.
Anti-Malarial Drug and DNA-Editing Technique Earn Two Cal Profs Academic Invention Honors Cal professors named National Academy of Inventor fellows.
Philosophy Alum Snags Arlt Award in Humanities The Arlt Award is given to a recent doctorate recipient who authored a book on the topic of humanities.
Former Marine at Cal is Awarded for Work in STEM Doctoral student Bradley Wheeler received one of only 11 prestigious graduate research fellowships made by the NSF for military veterans contributing to STEM fields.
PhD Candidate Takes Break from Cal to Work at White House UC Berkeley PhD candidate Dan Hammer is taking a year off from school, but his reason may surprise you.
Sofie Ramos — Master of Fine Arts Candidate Sofie Ramos credits her faculty advisors for helping her develop as an artist.
Ebola Update: How to Take Precautions When Traveling this Winterbreak What is Ebola? The Ebola virus is one of the world’s most devastating illnesses. The virus was first detected in 1976 in…
Hewlett Foundation Establishes UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity In the largest-ever private donation to the field of cybersecurity, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced a $45 million grant to…
How to Manage Holiday Stress and Your Academics Manage your work/life balance with these tips from these university's experts.
Berkeley Doctoral Alumni Survey Reports High Satisfaction and Career Success A UC survey released shows high satisfaction, career success, low unemployment, decreasing student loan debt and overall degree satisfaction among UC doctoral alumni.
History Student Elena Kempf is Honored as Una Fellow Being an Una Fellow is one of the highest honors at UC Berkeley.
Submit Proposals for Film + Media Conference: Serialities 1915/2015 The Film and Media Department is currently accepting proposal applications for their biennial conference, Serialities 1915/2015. Proposals must be submitted no later…
Graduate Students Launch Program to Help Budding Social Workers Social Workers in Classroom participants with officers Maggie Bishop and Galina Melamed (second and third from the left). A new student-led program aimed…
Two Social Welfare Alumni Win Research Awards Two UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare alumni were recently awarded research awards. Carly Devlin ('14) was awarded the American Clinical Social Work Association's (ACSWA) Judith Holm Memorial Student Awards, including a $2,000 grant and a $1,000 Snooks Prize grant to the School of Social Welfare...
Library News In September, the newly remodeled Social Research Library re-opened in 227 Haviland Hall. Sign up for the monthly blog, Library Researcher at Berkeley for the…
J-School Alumni and Lecturers Earn Eight Emmy Nominations and Three Wins Several J-School alumni and others with strong ties to the Graduate School of Journalism were among the red carpet glitterati ...
School of Public Health Alumna Examines Decentralized California Health Care in Dissertation Alumna Megan Vanneman ’13 was in her third year at the School of Public Health when she became interested in examining the effects of the decentralized public mental health care system in California. Last month Vanneman's dissertation was published…
Obama Taps Berkeley Law School Alumna as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Last month, President Barack Obama nominated law school alumna Maria Echaveste ...
Now Recruiting Graduate Students to Serve on ASUC Judicial Council The ASUC Judicial Council is currently looking for graduate students to take a seat as a justice for graduate student representation on campus