For the Love of Chemistry: Meet PhD Candidate Teresa Williams Love of one’s field sparks perseverance toward the Ph.D., as one doctoral candidate reveals to another. Read More
November 17, 2014 Siebel Scholars Award Creates Unmatched Networking Community In September this award was granted to eight Berkeley graduate students for excellence in their field.
November 17, 2014 History Student Elena Kempf is Honored as Una Fellow Being an Una Fellow is one of the highest honors at UC Berkeley.
October 15, 2014 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…
October 15, 2014 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.
October 15, 2014 Hellman Fund Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Faculty Fellows, Launches New Graduate Awards As the Hellman Fellows Program celebrates its 20th anniversary, a new pilot program initiated this year — The Hellmann Graduate Awards — provides 14 graduate students with funding to help enrich the student’s academic career.
October 15, 2014 Berkeley Talks Features Intimate Talks with David Sedaris, Yo-Yo Ma and More Berkeley Talks — a new series of public talks and lectures hosted by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and co-presented by Cal Performances — features intimate conversations with artists and intellectuals such as writer David Sedaris and musician Yo-Yo Ma.
October 15, 2014 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 …
October 15, 2014 School of Public Health Alumna Examines Decentralized California Health Care in Dissertation Alumna Megan Vanneman ’13 was in her third year at the School of Public Health when she became interested in examining the effects of the decentralized public mental health care system in California. Last month Vanneman’s dissertation was published…
October 14, 2014 Amid Academic Stress, Alums Start Peer-Support Group, ‘Thriving in Science’ In September, alumni Diane Wiener and Troy Lionberger launched Thriving in Science, a peer-support program that provides support and resources to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
September 15, 2014 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.
September 15, 2014 4th Annual Ph.D. Colloquium Offers Alternative Career Options The Fourth Annual Ph.D. Colloquium provided insider information on attaining a teaching position in a liberal arts or community college. The colloquium was the first of a three part series that explores teaching opportunities.
September 15, 2014 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.
September 15, 2014 Orlando Bagwell, New Director of the J-School’s Documentary Program The Graduate School of Journalism will welcome Orlando Bagwell as its new director of the School’s documentary program.
August 8, 2014 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.
August 8, 2014 Get to Know Your Graduate Assembly From the Welcome Back Party, to the Empowering Women of Color Conference. From free tax consultation, to workshops for student parents. From The Berkeley Graduate online journal, to the Queer and Transgender Advocacy project. Discover how the Graduate Assembly is working to improve the lives of graduate students and create a vibrant and inclusive graduate community.
August 8, 2014 Startups Develop the Next Big Thing at Berkeley Lab Inside Stanley Hall, a number of laboratories are in full swing over the summer as incubators for innovative startups that may spearhead emerging industries.
August 7, 2014 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.
July 15, 2014 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.
July 7, 2014 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.
July 7, 2014 A Lycopod Odyssey with Jeff Benca See a video on Jeff Benca, a graduate student in the Department of Integrative Biology, who is studying a group of early land plants called lycopods. The video was produced by Molly Sharlach, Ph.D. ’13, who recently completed a graduate certificate in science communication at UC Santa Cruz.