Faculty who guide grad students are honored, ready or not The unselfish help of mentors was recently recognized by the Graduate Division, the Sarlo Foundation, and the Graduate Assembly, in a warm gathering and in two friendly ambush-style presentations.
Steps to success, or how the fellowship was won Sending in all those applications can pay off, and sometimes we hear about it. Case in point: Ph.D. student Vasundhara Sirnate was selected for a $30,000 award. She tells us how that happened.
Graduate Division Student Parent Grant The Graduate Division administers a need-based grant for graduate students (single, married, or registered domestic partners) living with dependent children; if funding…
Grad Division snapshot: a dozen years in four pages The Graduate Division has just produced an updated summary of its activities and accomplishments, with a dozen-year-long perspective.
Outstanding GSIs and their mentors are honored: a quick preview Outstanding GSIs, and mentors of GSIs, were honored in droves over the past few weeks. We’ll be saying more, in detail and with pictures, in the near future, but meanwhile here are the categories — at least those which fall under the umbrella of the Graduate Division (and, in one case, its partner, the Graduate Assembly).
Steve Chu and six other grad alumni receive top Cal Alumni Association honors at Charter Gala The Cal Alumni Association had a big party --- its annual Charter Gala --- April 9 at San Francisco’s City Hall to celebrate the university’s birthday and to physically present the association’s 2011 alumni awards (publicly announced back in December 2010).
Einhorn, Geissler, and Puckett are officially Distinguished The Berkeley campus's most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in that endeavor. This year, the recipients were Robin Einhorn of professor of history, Phillip Geissler associate professor of chemistry (whose 2000 Ph.D. is from Berkeley), and Kent Puckett, associate professor of English.
Why Graduate Education at Berkeley Matters Graduate Dean Andrew Szeri discusses why and how our academic enterprise matters to the state of California, the U.S., everywhere.
The Peace Corps is very Berkeley In the half century since the Corps was founded, UC Berkeley has supplied more volunteers than any other university in the U.S. — over 3,400 in more than 120 countries.
‘Fall down seven times, stand up eight’ — a dispatch from Japan Remarkable narratives of survival, acceptance, and recovery are starting to emerge from witnesses to the March 11 disaster in Japan.
Grad-student archaeologist returns to coal country to aid a vibrant movement Brandon Nida wants to save a mountain --- coal-rich Blair Mountain, in West Virginia, where thousands of coal miners battled a private army and federal troops in the largest labor insurrection in U.S. history
Earth-shaken ’89 cal grad student now leads the fix of the broken Bay Bridge Marwan Nader (M.S.’89, Ph.D.’92 CE) was walking outside Davis Hall when the earthquake struck. Twenty-two years later, he's the lead design engineer of the new portion of the Bay Bridge.
What UC Berkeley is worth to California In the course of a March discussion in the State Capitol about the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, which is exploring the development and use of safe chemicals as well as ways to impact public policy, State Senator Joe Simitian had some specific things to say about UC Berkeley’s immense value to California’s economy.
Travel warning: Japan Please be advised that the University of California Education Abroad Programs (UCEAP) in Japan have been suspended and travel assistance providers are assisting students with arrangements to return to the U.S. Please also be aware that the U.S. Department of State issued a travel warning last night.
Rankings: Berkeley’s not only super, it’s the greenest UC Berkeley is a member of a totally informal yet stratospherically exclusive club, an elite “supergroup” of six universities worldwide that are regarded head and shoulders above the rest of the throng. (The others are Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, and Oxford.)
Most life on Earth to perish — again? Is Earth heading into a sixth mass extinction? A team of UC Berkeley professors and graduate students think it may well be. But it may be possible to stop short of the tipping point.
How’s your emotional intelligence? Can you tell, from what’s written on someone’s face, whether they’re showing anger or fear? If they’re sad or embarrassed? Happy? Lusty? Disdainful? It can be tricky, and misreads can cost you in real-world interactions with strangers, friends, coworkers, and lovers.
A look behind the curtain at the GRE The Graduate Record Examinations General Test has been a milestone for many of us in the graduate community. A revised test will debut this coming August. How will it look to your college-bound younger siblings?
A quick guide to fellowships A distillation of facts and advice from the Graduate Fellowships Office staff, tips that might save you time as you embark on your quest for funding.