A Century Later, UC Berkeley’s Campanile Plays On with the Help of Graduate Students Panoramic views of the campus and the Bay are pretty common for Ph.D. student Tiffany Ng, a university carillonist.
Meet Berkeley Graduate Division Dean, Fiona Doyle Going from all-girls schools to the engineering world, was a culture shift that gave Dean Doyle a first-hand learning experience with diversity.
Legacy of Japanese-American Women at Berkeley Empowers Female Students Today A History of Art graduate student received the JAWA award, which supports women of Japanese-American heritage.
Graduate/Undergraduate Research Teams Inspire SMART Participants and Dollar-for-Dollar Gift Match The Graduate Division is highlighting the SMART mentoring program in the November 20, 2014, “Big Give” and will double every gift, dollar for dollar.
Berkeley Doctoral Alumni Survey Reports High Satisfaction and Career Success A UC survey released shows high satisfaction, career success, low unemployment, decreasing student loan debt and overall degree satisfaction among UC doctoral alumni.
Free Speech Movement Leaves an Inspiring Legacy Berkeley has preserved the documentary record of this extraordinary time, ensuring that future generations will be in a position to explore these events that changed the landscape of higher education in the United States.
Once Again UC Berkeley Ranks First Among Public Universities For the 17th consecutive year, the most recent rankings by U.S. News & World Report placed UC Berkeley as first among public universities in the nation.
Introducing New Leadership in the Graduate Division For the past three years, Rosemary Joyce has served as Associate Dean. Now, she is stepping in as Interim Dean of the Graduate Division this summer and fall, while the campus conducts a search for a successor to former Dean Andrew Szeri, who has taken on a different Vice Provost role.
Audacious Campaign for Berkeley Nearly Doubles the Number of Endowed Fellowships These fellowships are already helping to provide UC Berkeley students with life-changing opportunities.
Prestigious fellowship offers funding, flexibility Each year, ARCS Foundation Fellowships support a dozen University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. candidates in science and engineering. These fellowships come with an added benefit to students: more flexibility to follow their interests when choosing a research project.
Getting ready to start your startup At Berkeley today, budding entrepreneurs can test their mettle in competitions, team up with like-minded thinkers, bend the ears of faculty and industry experts, and find guidance toward funding, all on campus or very nearby.
Berkeley leads the way in NSF fellowships The National Science Foundation fellowship is a crown jewel of graduate student awards. And Berkeley students lead the nation in capturing these prestigious and highly competitive grants. Here are 6 of this year's recipients.
Out of thousands of dedicated GSIs, 276 are named especially outstanding Their departments nominate them, a GSI-related faculty committee selects them, and colleagues, family, and friends come together to honor them in a commencement-like ceremony. What it all means is that they're already pretty darn good teachers.
M.F.A. Graduate Bridges Place and Art The new Bay Bridge is still more than a year away from opening, but it’s already inspiring the art of Amanda Hughen,…
Meet the Winners of the 2012 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest Meet the winners of the 2012 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest: First Place: Jeremy Chase Crawford. Second Place: Arturo Cortez. Third Place: Kristina Kangas. Winners received conference travel awards in the amounts of $1,000, $500, and $250, respectively.
Recapping the Town Hall: Your Questions Answered In the late afternoon of February 9, students and staff gathered in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall for a first-time Town Hall with the Graduate Dean. So all graduate students may benefit from what was said, the questions and answers from the event are now available online.