Berkeley Alumnus Wins PEN Literary Award Last month UC Berkeley alumnus Leonard Mlodinow was awarded the PEN: E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for his book Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior.
Law Student Wins Baylor’s Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition Collin Tierney prevailed in a rigorous competition to win the 2013 Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition.
PhD student receives two grants for a campus restoration project Dylan Chapple's project, “Fitting Plant to Space,” will measure soil characteristics and landscape factors at each site along the campus’s Strawberry Creek before planting new vegetation. The project will engage 500 volunteers.
J-School student wins WHCA Scholarship and meets President Obama Angela Hart, a student in the Graduate School of Journalism, was a recipient of the 2013 White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) Student Scholarship. In April, Hart attended the WHCA awards dinner in Washington D.C. and a luncheon with President Obama.
Minh Dang, MSW ’13, named by White House as a Champion for Change Recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change, Dang has become nationally known for fighting the commercial sexual exploitation of children — helping many heal the pain and shame associated with it.
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows chosen UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Roi Livne and alumna Elham Mireshghi were among 22 fellows selected to receive a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
J-School student wins Dorothea Lange Fellowship Molly Oleson, a student in the Graduate School of Journalism, is this year’s winner of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship, on the merits of a five-photograph submission.
Brett Fellow explores LGBT theology and Filipino queerness Second annual award from the Philip Brett LGBT Fund, to support a Berkeley graduate students pursuing LGBT-related scholarship in any field, is made to Ethnic Studies Ph.D. student Darren Arquero.
Berkeley Alumna Frances Arnold Wins National Medal of Technology and Innovation With a 1985 Berkeley chemical engineering Ph.D., Frances Arnold is now a professor at Caltech and finding ways to produce fuels that can help lower carbon dioxide emissions. Her work brought her a medal from President Barack Obama in February.
Ms. Cowan gets a Una Fellowship — and, for one brief evening, Una’s necklace Although from a small high school in Kentucky that was not academically oriented, Sarah Cowan applied to top colleges around the country, utilizing “a tenacity and hunger than overshadowed fear, uncertainty, and perhaps common sense.”
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…
Berkeley Academic Senate’s 2012 top honor goes to former chancellor Robert Berdahl and professor-alumna Marian Diamond At a dinner in May, the UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate gave its highest honor, the Clark Kerr Award, to two people with high-profile connections to the Berkeley campus, Robert M. Berdahl, who was Berkeley's eighth chancellor, and Marian C. Diamond, professor emeritus of integrative biology and a world-renowned brain researcher.
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.…
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.
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.
The key to totally surprising a mentor: no leaks So far, nobody’s let the cat out of the bag, so the surprise has been total in every case. Despite Berkeley’s long tradition of protest and California’s reputation for spontaneity, faculty members here simply don’t expect to be interrupted by outsiders while they’re teaching a class. When it dawns on them that the invasion brings unexpected but happy news for them personally, decorum goes out the window.
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.
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…