Message from the Vice Provost and Dean

Start Your Spring with a Slam!

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Meet Larissa Charnsangavej, Graduate Student Life Coordinator

Graduate Diversity Program Welcomes New Leadership!

Spring Berkeley Graduate and Tanner Lectures — Not to Be Missed!

Important Dates

Apply for In Absentia Registration for Fall 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Apply for Filing Fee Status for Fall 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

File Thesis or Dissertation (Fall 2020 Deadline)
Friday, December 18, 2020

Apply for In Absentia Registration for Spring 2021
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Apply for Filing Fee Status for Spring 2021
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

File Thesis or Dissertation (Spring 2021 Deadline)
Friday, May 14, 2021

Professional Development

Craft Your Three-Minute Thesis and Submit Your Grad Slam Video by 2/18/19

Upcoming Seminars on Science Leadership and Management

Student Life

Graduate Division Announcements

• Call for Nominations for the Carol D. Soc Awards and the Faculty Mentoring Awards — 2/8/2019
• Student Parents: UC Berkeley’s Back-Up Child Care Program is for You — Pre-Enroll Now!

Opportunities

• Do You Need Funding for Your Campus Sustainability Project? Apply to The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) 
• Volunteers Needed for “English-in-Action” Program

Campus Announcements

• Mandatory Trainings for 2015-16 New Graduate Students: Sexual Assault/Sexual Violence Prevention
• The Berkeley-Haas Women in Leadership Conference — 3/16/2019
• Cal Performances Presents Ojai at Berkeley
• Spring Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Labor Issues: Challenges and Innovation
• Which Art Class Will You Take?
• Expanding Potential Workshop — 1/30/16

Recognition & Awards

Fellowships & Grants

• Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women Fellowship — 3/1/2020
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Awards — 1/29/2020
• NEH Senior Research Fellowship Program — 1/24/2019
• Three Fellowship Opportunities with Sea Grant — 1/17 to 1/30/2020
• Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship — 1/27/2020
• R. Kirk Underhill Graduate Fellowship — 3/1/2020
• Fellowship for Social Science Dissertation Students — 1/31/2016
• U.S. Faculty Scholar Program — 1/31/2016
• ARIT Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language Study for Summer 2016 — 2/5/2016
• John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship — 2/12/2016
• Andrew. W. Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship Program — 1/15/2017
• Kang Family Graduate Fellowship for Biotechnology — 3/3/2017
• The Bancroft Library Study Award — 2/5/2018
• World Wood Day Foundation (WWDF) Research Grant — 2/12/2018
• Albert Newman Fellowship for Visually-Impaired Students — 3/15/2018
• The New York State Senate Fellowships — 4/27/2018
• Chateaubriand Fellowship for STEM — 1/8/2019
• Chateaubriand Fellowships in Humanities and Social Sciences — 1/8/2019
• Phi Beta Kappa Fellowship — 1/29/2019
• Clark Foundation $10,000 “Investment in Community” Graduate Fellowship — 1/31/2019
• CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program — 2/1/2019
• Nuclear Nonproliferation Fellows Program — 2/1/2019
• L’Oréal USA For Women In Science Fellowship — 2/1/2019
• Bloorview Research Institute Pursuit Award — 2/4/2019
• Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship — 2/15/2019
• Sydney Ehrman Fellowships — 2/22/2019
• UC MEXUS-CONACYT Postdoctoral Research Fellowships — 2/25/2019
• Taiwan International Internship Program — 2/28/2019
• Bay Area Water Quality Fellowship — 3/15/2019
• Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellowship — 3/15/2019
• Frank E. Ratliff Fellowship in Classical Antiquity — 3/15/2019
• Georges Lurcy Fellowship Program for Study in France — 3/15/2019
• Postdoctoral Fellowships for Graduate Research Training in Alcohol Problems and Alcohol-Related Disparities — 6/30/2019

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