ERG Students Achieve National Recognition for Groundbreaking Studies In honor of the upcoming Earth Week, we’re featuring two Energy and Resources Group students whose research has earned national press coverage. Read More
June 13, 2013 Berkeley Film and Friends welcomes new members The organization, created by Film and Media doctoral student George Larkin, promotes Skype sessions with film professionals, special training, and tours in various media organizations.
June 13, 2013 Celebrating Native American graduates Native American graduating students were honored at a special ceremony on May 18, highlighting their achievements.
June 13, 2013 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.
June 10, 2013 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.
May 14, 2013 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.
May 14, 2013 Life after dissertation: What’s next for degree candidates? Political Science doctoral student Jason W. Blakely reflects on his intellectual growth at Berkeley, dissertation writing, and gratitude.
May 14, 2013 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.
May 14, 2013 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.
May 14, 2013 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.
April 9, 2013 Asian Sorority Creates New Graduate Fellowship The Sigma Omicron Pi Sorority, Inc., Fund for Graduate Fellowships will be used to support high-achieving female graduate students.
February 22, 2013 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.
January 23, 2013 Students and scholars bring Fulbright recognition for the campus The Berkeley campus quietly received some pleasant news in early January and two Graduate Division staff members played key roles in the reason behind it.
January 23, 2013 A few changes among Grad Division’s Deans As you read the fond farewell to one Associate Dean and the welcome back to another, you can learn what their areas of responsibility are.
December 14, 2012 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.”
December 14, 2012 See and hear great lectures you might have missed (bonus: no homework) If you missed the recent fall lectures in the Graduate Council and Graduate Division Lectures series, you’re in luck!
November 20, 2012 ‘Tis the season: apply for those fellowships! Yes, Berkeley grad students do win these things, and gain thousands of dollars in funding as a result.
October 12, 2012 Election Day is Nov. 6: find out about the issues Learn about everything on the ballot, including the temporary-tax-for-education measure, Prop. 30.
October 12, 2012 Two Berkeley alums win MacArthur Fellowships Two UC Berkeley alumni, both national leaders in their fields — one in fighting poverty, the other in battling disease — are among the 23 Americans named as this year’s recipients of coveted MacArthur Fellowships.
September 12, 2012 Academic Services: upcoming workshops on writing Writing and editing are a large,— but tamable — beast in the lives of many graduate students. Find out how to make them do what you want as you work on your dissertation, grant proposal, and more.
August 20, 2012 AmphibiaWeb tracks newly discovered species — and those in a mass die-off Berkeley people — including grad alumni — are at the heart of a vital resource where you can find out, online, how all of earth’s known frogs, toads, and salamanders are doing.