Funding News Archives - Berkeley Graduate Division

December 9, 2024

Understanding UC Berkeley Graduate Student Funding Disbursements

Knowledge of the funding disbursement process is key to managing finances as a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Understanding when and how your funds are released ensures you have the resources needed to succeed. Here’s what you need to know about UC Berkeley’s graduate student funding disbursements.

September 11, 2020

Graduate Student Emergency Relief: The Impact of Philanthropy by the Numbers

The challenges facing students due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been severe. While all of our students have been impacted in some way, our most vulnerable communities, including disabled students, student parents, first-generation students and low-income students carry the greatest burden. The Student Emergency Fund…

July 9, 2020

Student Technology Equity Program

If you are a Berkeley student without the resources you need to engage in the online environment this Fall semester, apply now for a free loan of hardware from the Student Technology Equity Program (STEP). Hardware, including a free loaner laptop, Wi-Fi hotspot, or other…

February 4, 2018

The New York State Senate Fellowships — 4/27/2018

Graduate Fellowships are offered by the Senate of the State of New York each year. Applicants are not required to reside or attend school in New York at the time of application. Fellowships bring a $33,000 grant-in-study stipend plus benefit options. Legislative Fellowships Each Legislative Fellow is assigned to…

May 11, 2016

Hosei International Fund Foreign Scholars Fellowship — 6/3/2016

Hosei University, a private institution in Tokyo, Japan, invites young scholars from abroad who are enrolled in a doctoral degree program or already have a doctorate to apply to the Hosei International Fund Fellowship Program to carry out non-degree research programs at Hosei under the…

November 14, 2013

Applications Open for the CSU Doctoral Incentive Program 2014/2015

The CSU Doctoral Incentive Program provides student loans to a limited number of individuals pursuing full-time doctoral degrees at accredited universities throughout the United States. After participants receive their doctoral degrees and obtain a qualifying instructional position in the CSU, a portion of their loan from this program will be…

June 13, 2013

Childcare reimbursements will soon be offered to GSRs

Starting in fall 2013, UC Berkeley will provide eligible graduate student researchers (GSRs) with financial assistance to help defray the costs of childcare.

December 14, 2012

MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

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.

December 13, 2012

2012 at Berkeley: a quick look back

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.

November 20, 2012

A quick guide to fellowships and grants

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.

October 12, 2012

Building new research on how students learn into the ways they’re taught

If you're going to teach, knowing how students really learn is an advantage.

October 2, 2012

It takes a partnership: alumni, professors, corporations say thank you to Berkeley

How gratitude turns into fellowships and other opportunities for new generations of graduate students

August 20, 2012

Important information for grad students receiving fall fellowships at UC Berkeley

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.

August 20, 2012

The assignment of a lifetime

Peter Soler, a chemical engineering grad student, with the help of an NSF research fellowship, is helping build an artificial kidney that may be a game-changer for two million patients.

August 20, 2012

Other upcoming funding opportunities

Fellowships with deadlines in September and October 2012.

July 11, 2012

Brett Fellowship’s Numero Uno seeks an Italian Studies Ph.D.

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 currently working on his dissertation, which is entitled: “‘Wanting Home’:…

June 1, 2012

Berkeley doctoral candidates Mont Allen, Robert Harkins, Bruno Reinhardt, and Bharat Venkat win prestigious Newcombe Fellowships

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.

April 24, 2012

Cal grad student John Osborn and undergrad Reginald James win two of the first AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarships

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.

January 27, 2012

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.

September 15, 2011

Berkeley students win a sizable share of environmental fellowships

In August, the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation announced the winners of its half-million dollars worth of environmental fellowships and grants for 2011. There were 20 of them around the United States, master’s and Ph.D. students. Four — a fifth of the total — are pursuing studies at Berkeley.