Student Fellowship Program Provides Food Sustainability Solutions Two graduate students receive the UC Global Food Initiative Student Fellowship to address local and international food and nutrition issues.
Philosophy Alum Snags Arlt Award in Humanities The Arlt Award is given to a recent doctorate recipient who authored a book on the topic of humanities.
Former Marine at Cal is Awarded for Work in STEM Doctoral student Bradley Wheeler received one of only 11 prestigious graduate research fellowships made by the NSF for military veterans contributing to STEM fields.
PhD Candidate Takes Break from Cal to Work at White House UC Berkeley PhD candidate Dan Hammer is taking a year off from school, but his reason may surprise you.
Haas-Berkeley Team Wins Tech Challenge for Parking Alert System Ever pray to the parking gods? Haas team wins a Tech Challenge for an alert system that helps drivers find parking.
Fellowship Offers Outstanding Research Opportunities in Social-Behavioral Sciences The annual Hornaday Graduate Fellowship allows students to conduct research related to social and emotional well-being.
President Barack Obama Honors Berkeley Faculty Members for Scientific Contributions President Barack Obama recently named three faculty members as recipients of the National Medal of Science Award for their outstanding contributions.
ASLA Honors M.L.A. Student For Design of 16th Street Station in Oakland An M.L.A. student has been honored by the ASLA for his design of the 16th Street Station in Oakland.
Fellowship Allows Students to Inform Change in Higher Education by helping faculty collect and analyze data that could inform curriculum development.
Siebel Scholars Award Creates Unmatched Networking Community In September this award was granted to eight Berkeley graduate students for excellence in their field.
History Student Elena Kempf is Honored as Una Fellow Being an Una Fellow is one of the highest honors at UC Berkeley.
Two Social Welfare Alumni Win Research Awards Two UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare alumni were recently awarded research awards. Carly Devlin ('14) was awarded the American Clinical Social Work Association's (ACSWA) Judith Holm Memorial Student Awards, including a $2,000 grant and a $1,000 Snooks Prize grant to the School of Social Welfare...
UC Berkeley Alumna Wins MacArthur Fellowship UC Berkeley alumna, Tami Bond, was recently named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow for her work on measuring black carbon emissions on human health and the atmosphere.
J-School Alumni and Lecturers Earn Eight Emmy Nominations and Three Wins Several J-School alumni and others with strong ties to the Graduate School of Journalism were among the red carpet glitterati ...
Kurtis Heimerl Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 At 30, Kurtis Heimerl has held many titles. Computer scientist. Ex-Googler. Postdoctoral researcher. Humanitarian. CEO. This year, he created a new technology that has the potential to provide low-cost, community-owned cellular networks to the estimated 1 billion people currently living in rural areas without coverage.
Distinguished Poetry Professor, Robert Hass, Wins Wallace Stevens Award Robert Hass, a distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics at UC Berkeley, is a recipient of the prestigious Wallace Stevens Award for his demonstrated mastery of poetry. The $100,000 award from The Academy of American Poets is part of the American Poets Prizes, which has been awarded to poets including Yusef Komunyakaa and Adrienne Rich in the past.
Innovation Gives Users a Say in Energy Consumption McCormick, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, is the recipient of this year’s Echoing Green Climate Fellowship for his innovation that empowers people and business to control their own energy choices.
Researcher Michael Jordan Wins $100,000 Rumelhart Prize for Cognitive Science Michael Jordan, a leading UC Berkeley faculty researcher in the fields of computer science and statistics, is the 2015 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize, a prestigious honor reserved for those who have made fundamental contributions to the theoretical foundations of human cognition.
Berkeley Grad Recognized for Promoting Social Change Mimi Kim, a Ph.D. student who recently graduated from the School of Social Welfare, received an honorable mention at this year’s Thomas I. Yamashita Prize award ceremony.
Newsroom in a Pocket: Berkeley Student Wins a Digital Journalism Scholarship A newly established scholarship for students who pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism and computers has been awarded to a Berkeley graduate student for her innovative project to connect children to journalism.