Uplifting our Community: 2023 Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award Recipients Launched in 2022, The UC Berkeley Leadership in Graduate Diversity Awards aims to shed light on and award graduate students who have demonstrated stellar contributions to advancing the graduate and professional under represented minority (URM) student community.
Changing Academia from Within: Meet one of Berkeley’s UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellows Part of the UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative, the UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship works towards advancing historically underrepresented students from California Hispanic Serving Institutions into the professoriate.
D-Lab Workshop Empowers Students to Advance Social Justice in Data Science Set to begin with its second iteration this June, the 8-week cohort-based online program provides a scaffolded, project-based learning environment — designed within a social justice framework — giving current Berkeley graduate students the ability to apply data science skills and tools in their individual fields of study whether they’re coming from public health, education, law, public policy or any discipline across campus.
Leadership in Diversity: Honoring graduating students Meet our inaugural Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award recipients...
Bringing Visibility to Undocugrads: Undocumented Graduate Students Graduate school is a difficult period for many students, as they juggle personal, academic, professional, and financial responsibilities and as they prepare…
Getting into Graduate School: Mentorship creates pipeline for Berkeley undergraduates GiGS mentor Andy Antuna, J.D. Law, and his mentee Spring Keosoupha, undergraduate majoring in Legal Studies Getting into Grad School (GiGS) was…
Native/Indigenous graduate students help build a more culturally-responsive campus Each November, we commemorate Native American Heritage Month by acknowledging and recognizing the heritage and contributions (past, present and future) of Native and Indigenous people. However, the various ways in which our Native/Indigenous students impact Berkeley extend well beyond a particular month or day. These students’ multifaceted experiences not only help to inform their individual identities, but also help build a more culturally-responsive campus community.