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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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…
Sociology’s Nazanin Shahrokni receives a Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship Nazanin Shahrokni Nazanin Shahrokni, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Berkeley, has been awarded one of six national 2012 Woodrow Wilson Women’s…
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.
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.
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.
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.