Congratulations on an incredible academic year, and what to expect in the next one Dear Graduate Student Community, Congratulations on making it through a challenging year! On behalf of the Graduate Division, I want to congratulate…
Daniela Medina: Uplifting People Closest to Incarceration Daniela Medina Daniela Medina, a second year master’s student in UC Berkeley’s Social Welfare program, dedicates her studies, work, and life to…
Anthropology Ph.D. student Valerie Black awarded prestigious Newcombe Fellowship Valerie Black Valerie Black, a 6th-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, was one of 22 students recently awarded the Charlotte…
Urte Laukaityte On the Interdisciplinarity of Philosophy and Psychiatry Urte Laukaityte When one thinks about philosophy, popular names like Aristotle, Nietzche and Kant come to mind. For someone who is not…
View Graduating MFA Exhibitions at BAMPFA From 2020 MFA graduate Brian Bartz: Virid, 2020; pigment print on archival paper; 42 x 24 in.; courtesy of the artist. The…
Competition For Most Patentable Capstone Project Idea – 6/30/21 Photo: Timothy Vernon, MEng ’17. The College of Engineering Office for Post-Baccalaureate Programs and the UC Berkeley Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer…
What you need to do before OskiCat and Melvyl retire On July 27, a sweeping new project will unify Berkeley’s vast collections (physical and digital) and bring together the collections of libraries…
Exploring opportunities outside the academy? Join the Beyond Academia community. Beyond Academia: Connecting PhDs with the world The process of earning a PhD is a Sisyphean endeavor, involving painstaking research of a…
NSF Fellowships Support Future Research for Outstanding Graduate Recipients Among universities across the nation, UC Berkeley has historically topped the list of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows. This prestigious and…
A Summer Reading List for Professional Development Photo: Ben White, Unplash Summer reading is a dedicated market for popular literature, and it’s also an umbrella term for graduate students…
Berkeley Launches New Future of Higher Education Postdoc Program UC Berkeley has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program designed to expose participants to and prepare them for careers in higher education…
Upcoming Trainings Opportunities for GSIs Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) continues to offer workshops to support remote, hybrid, and in-person instruction which are open to all instructors…
Departing Associate Dean Eric Falci Recognized For Contributions Eric Falci The Graduate Division is saying farewell to Eric Falci, our outstanding Associate Dean for Student Support, as he begins a…
Staff Recognized with Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Award Linda von Hoene, Kristen Nelson, and Noah Katznelson in the Graduate Division’s GSI Teaching and Resource Center (GSI TRC) were one of…
Farewell to Two Long-Serving Staff Members Cynthia Ladd-Viti and Linda Miyagawa, two long-serving staff members of the Graduate Division, are retiring. Below are summaries and highlights from their…
COVID Accommodations for Graduate Students 2020-21 As I reflect on the disorienting nature of the last year, I want to highlight the various accommodations and support provided by…
Graduate Diversity Pilot Program: Making Progress Students cross Sather Gate on UC Berkeley’s Campus. In July of 2020, the Graduate Division established the Graduate Diversity Pilot Program (GDPP),…