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.
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies This multi-session two-day conference, now in its 39th year, will be held October 12–13, 2012, at Saint Louis University. The featured speaker,…
As others see us: the view through rankings Start-up days: South Hall and North Hall, circa 1874 UC Berkeley wasn’t always what you see today. In 1868, and for some…
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…
GSI honors for a dozen new ways of helping people learn These 12 people, in some ways the crème de la crème of this year's top graduate student instructors, have effectively, and often cleverly, identified, addressed, and documented a teaching problem they encountered and, for the benefit of all, told how they solved it. Read, for instance, how Sonja Schwartz reinvented the bean jar.
Postdoc opportunity: UCLA Library eScience With funding from the Council on Library Resources/Digital Library Federation, the UCLA Library has created a new postdoctoral fellow position in data…
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…
Grad alum Ricardo Cortez, now at Tulane, wins the prestigious Blackwell-Tapia Prize Ricardo Cortez (photo: Paula Burch-Celentano) Tulane University math professor Ricardo Cortez, who is internationally regarded as a leading researcher in fluid dynamics…
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.
Help determine the Library’s future (by May 31) Graduate students are important users of the University Library, and University Librarian Tom Leonard wants your input on which ways the Library…
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.
Fulbright International Education Administrators Program Through its short-term seminars, the Fulbright International Education Administrators Program can help U.S. higher education administrators establish lasting connections within the social,…
Will you run for Cal on April 15? I Run 4 Cal is an all-skill-level charity race to encourage donations to campus departments, scholarships, programs, and student groups. Cal students,…
Submitted for your perusal: student-faculty creations, through the ARC Fellows program In 2009 the Arts Research Center on campus created a new platform for faculty-student collaboration called the ARC Fellows program, in which…
Library pilot program — return your books at any campus library The University Library is quietly launching a pilot program to enable library users to return checked out materials from any campus library to…
Tang 360: We Want to Hear From You! Free Food (pizza, salad, fruit and cookies)! $10 Gift Card (Amazon or Target)! You already know what 360 degrees means, so what…
Party on the bay, stern-wheeler style, April 7 The Graduate Social Club is holding its annual Bay Cruise Saturday, April 7 from 7:30 to 11p.m., aboard the San Francisco Belle, a…
Graduate funding opportunities for February, March, and beyond Human Rights Center summer fellowships; Scholarships for children of California strawberry farmworkers; Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Fellowship; Fellowships offered by the Institute of International Studies (IIS); CONICYT/BECAS Chile multi-year scholarships; Fulbright Scholar Competition
March and April teaching and mentoring: an award, workshops, and time to apply for an institute 2011 winner Susan Muller and her GSIs GSIs: do you have a great mentor? Nominate by March 5. Mentoring award nominations: Nominations…