Call for Nominations: Graduate Mentoring Awards To recognize both our faculty and our graduate students who provide important mentorship, the Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly sponsor three awards that recognize outstanding mentoring of graduate students by faculty members, as well as one award to recognize the outstanding peer mentorship of current graduate and professional students.
UC Berkeley’s Mace: A Commencement Ceremony Icon The afternoon of Saturday December 16 saw Haas Pavilion filled with almost 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students alongside over 6,000 friends and family members to celebrate the commencement of the Class of 2023.
Mentoring Course for Graduate Students With the variety of courses being offered in the Spring 2024 semester, it can be overwhelming to figure out which to take. We encourage you to enroll in GSPDP 301, Effective Mentoring in Higher Education. This seminar will help guide graduate students as they mentor undergraduates at Berkeley, work in the context of a mentoring relationship with their graduate advisers, and prepare for the mentoring they will do in future academic and non-academic careers.
Congratulations on making it through this fall semester! Congratulations on making it through this fall semester! I want to extend my heartfelt appreciation to all of you for your exceptional resilience and dedication.
Welcome Emily Yraceburu – Graduate Student Basic Needs/Housing Specialist The Graduate Division is delighted to announce the hiring of the inaugural Graduate Student Basic Needs/Housing Specialist, Emily Yraceburu.
Take Action on SHIP – December Want to waive SHIP? The Spring 2024 waiver period is December 1, 2023 – January 1, 2024. All waivers received between January…
Highlights From My Favorite Moments This Year First, I want to thank you for reading this, and for your past gift(s) of support. As we end another year, I thought I could share a quick look back.
Path to the Professoriate: Advancing Diversity in Academia Since Fall 2020, the Office for Graduate Diversity’s (OGD) Path to the Professoriate (P2P) program has hosted four cohorts and more than 300 underrepresented doctoral students. P2P is designed to prepare first-year doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds for assistant professorships and academic publication.
Craft Your Three-Minute Thesis to Submit to Grad Slam 2024 You could win cash prizes and state-wide recognition while you further your professional development skills! Attention all graduate students, from all disciplines!…
Berkeley Graduate Students get access to Merck Research Laboratories through flagship industrial partnership It was an exhilarating day filled with exciting discoveries for eight Berkeley graduate students affiliated with the Inclusive Excellence Hub. The Hub sent this cohort of masters and doctoral students from a variety of disciplines to take part in the Scientific Engagement and Emerging Discovery Sciences (SEEDS) Symposium organized by Merck Research Laboratories in South San Francisco.
Let’s Talk About Code-Switching: A Double-Edged Sword Have you ever found yourself adjusting the way you talk or behave when transitioning from one environment to another? Perhaps you shift from casual banter with friends to adopting a more formal tone in professional settings.
Navigating Internships in Graduate School: Insights from GradPro’s Fall 2023 Panel This article distills the take-away advice from a recent GradPro panel featuring Berkeley graduate students and alumni who have successfully completed internships. Whether you want to learn what internship opportunities are available to graduate students, prepare for interviews, or learn how to maximize your internship experience, the insights of the panelists can help.
GSI Teaching Preparation for Spring 2024 Are you planning to teach as a GSIs for the first time in the Spring 2024 semester? If so, please take note of steps you are required to take before the semester begins and during the semester.
Continuing to support our community Welcome to the start of a new academic year! To our continuing students, we can’t wait to see what inspires you this year. For our new graduate students, I want to extend a very warm welcome.
20 Years in the Making: Berkeley Space Center In an exciting development announced on Monday October 16th, UC Berkeley will be partnering with NASA Ames to construct a novel 36-acre research and innovation hub at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley, just 45 miles south of Berkeley’s campus.
How to Gain Skills and Connections at the 2023 Professional Profile Clinic Graduate school is an exercise in juggling: every day, we practice handling the simultaneous responsibilities of being a researcher and teacher, mentor…
Announcing the Newly Revised Graduate Student Professional Development Guide Not sure what steps to take to advance your professional development? Follow this essential and newly revised Professional Development Guide on how to develop the key competencies of career and professional development. These competencies are broadly relevant, helping you develop skills that are valued highly across diverse career paths.
Support resources available to students We know that many students are struggling with the numerous tragic circumstances we are facing at the local, national, and global levels. Seeing human suffering, in any form, especially when you do not have the ability to address it, can be incredibly painful. During this extraordinarily difficult time, please be certain to support yourself and be sensitive to the needs of others in our community who may be experiencing fear, pain, and/or grief.
UC Berkeley Ranked #1 Public University in the Country In a report released by US News on September 17th, UC Berkeley has yet again ranked #1 amongst national public universities, tying with UCLA. UC Berkeley has also been ranked #15 in all national universities; notably moving up from last year’s #20 ranking.
Berkeley was literally the “pie in the sky,” my dream school My name is Monica, and I joined the doctoral program in Social Welfare at Berkeley because I want to make lasting change for families, specifically families of color who are experiencing poverty.