Welcome — and Welcome Back — to Berkeley! Andrew Szeri Summer is flying by. In just a few weeks, the whirlwind of start-of-semester activities will begin. Those of you who…
Great News for Student Parents (and Their Colleagues) Currently registered graduate and undergraduate student parents will have access to 60 hours of emergency back-up child care at highly subsidized rates, beginning mid-August, as long as funds permit.
Graduate Students Educate Sacramento On June 4th, a group of deans and graduate students from all UC campuses attended the Graduate Research Advocacy Day in Sacramento. They spoke with lawmakers about the value of graduate education to the State of California.
Congratulations — and advice as summer begins Working on your dissertation this summer? Check out the Dissertation Writer's Room in Doe Library. Traveling abroad? Take advantage of University travel resources.
Vote Now on ASUC Referenda Did you know that graduate students can vote in ASUC elections, happening right now? Check out the referenda that may indeed be of considerable interest to you — and then, vote!
Berkeley’s Stellar Performance in the Latest Rankings While we have our own internal standards for assessing and maintaining academic quality at Berkeley, it's been gratifying to see that highly regarded national and international measures judge that Berkeley continues to do very well — superbly, in fact.
Help us attract more students like you Do you know personally any students who have applied to graduate schools and are considering Berkeley among their options? Please share your insider knowledge about your program, the faculty, the courses and the research.
Let us know your good news and ideas Welcome back! I hope you took time during the holiday break to recharge your batteries and gain some fresh perspectives on your work and your life. As for me, my perspective was altered by a week in rural Cambodia, doing my small part to volunteer with a medical clinic ...
A Graduate Division report card, graded by you We can always count on you to be very frank and thoughtful. We were on tenterhooks waiting for your survey answers to arrive and be compiled, and let out a big sigh of relief when we saw the results.
Tell an undergrad about grad school Sometimes undergraduates need an extra nudge to prompt them to consider applying to graduate school. It could come from you.
WarnMe: new options for emergency notification Have you updated your WarnMe contact options? WarnMe is a campus service that exists to save live, including yours.
Two words that count: please vote! My message this time is directed to students who hold U.S. citizenship, and it can be summed up in two words: please vote! A vital first step is registering to vote, and the deadline for that is October 22. Here's how.
Welcome, and welcome back, respectively! Graduate students: whether you're among the 3,000 newcomers or the 7,000 returnees, here are some tips worth noting, from the Graduate Dean.
This could be the start of something big Message from the Dean: What do the afterglow of the Big Bang and the influence of facial hair on 19th-century American presidential politics have in common? The new SMART program, being piloted this summer with graduate students mentoring undergrads in hands-on research.
GSIs (and their mentors) are central to Berkeley’s teaching mission Dear Graduate Students, As the spring semester drew to a close, I enjoyed several opportunities to celebrate great teaching by graduate students.…
Mentoring comes of age at Berkeley Not all aspects of a dean’s job bring smiles; it’s hardly possible to please everyone all the time. That said, there are…
Already a busy semester for the Graduate Division, here and abroad Dear Graduate Students, Your future selves are out there — graduate alumni of Berkeley. Some of them are very far from campus,…
Think of yourself as a Primary Source Any day you may find yourself chatting (by phone or email or Facebook or even in person) with a student who is considering coming to Berkeley. You're here, on the ground. You know the campus from the inside, and you have a unique kind of credibility: you're a student now, doing the very thing your questioner is hoping to do, at one of the most desirable places in the world. To augment your knowledge of Berkeley's funding and more, we've prepared a detailed overview called Graduate Education at UC Berkeley.
For all of us: a town hall, a forum, and two new social media connections A message from Graduate Dean Andrew Szeri about the upcoming Town Hall, the forum on the economics of higher education, and our new presence on Facebook and Twitter to better serve you.
Quite a semester! It’s been quite a semester. Classwork and research took place along with actions to support our University's core mission and values, and to improve our campus’s operations. In local, state, and national settings, students, faculty, and staff joined to advocate passionately for investing in public education as a common good in a good society.