October 23 @ 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Job Interview “Dos and Don’ts” Online via Zoom On October 23 at 11AM PT, join Handshake and Sam Owens, career coach and author of HarperCollins Leadership’s I Hate Job Interviews, for a session all about navigating the interview process. Sam will give a seasoned career coach’s perspective about: Common interview mistakes to avoid Spotting red flags in the interview process Going from an average interviewer to a great one Register to learn more about how to become a better interviewee!
October 23 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Nature Masterclass Information Session Virtual Nature Masterclasses are practical, interactive professional development workshops and courses. The curriculum is designed to provide researchers with strategies to develop their skills, confidence, and careers. Courses include science writing and publishing, focus on peer review, and effective collaboration in research. Register.
October 23 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Nature Masterclass 101 Online via Zoom Nature Masterclasses are practical, interactive professional development workshops and courses. The curriculum is designed to provide researchers with strategies to develop their skills, confidence, and careers. Courses include science writing and publishing, focus on peer review, and effective collaboration in research. This course is open to UC Berkeley Postdocs, Visiting Scholars, and Visiting Student Researchers with approved appointments, and UCB Graduate Students. The Zoom link will be sent once eligibility to participate is verified. Watch the Nature Masterclass promotional videos today before the webinar! Register below to join us on October 23, 2024 from 12-1 PM (PST)
October 23 @ 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Environmental Networking Event – Fall 2024 Online via Zoom Join us for casual networking with alumni & professionals working in careers related to environmental protection, sustainability, and justice. Find out how to follow your passion for people and the environment and get paid to help create a sustainable future! Whether you are in the beginning stages of your career development and want to attend to learn more about organizations/job roles with the environmental field or you are actively job/internship searching and are looking for advice on how to do that successfully, this event is for you. All are welcome! To learn more Register for this networking event!
October 23 @ 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM The Grad Student Productive The Inclusive Excellence Hub 2515 Channing Way, Berkeley Are you cleaning to avoid writing? Telling yourself that tomorrow will be the day? Struggling to find the perfect place to work? You’re not alone! The Grad Student Productive is a student-led welcoming space for grad students to focus on grading, writing, applications, studying for QEs, or any other work. These sessions will be structured using the Pomodoro technique to maximize productivity. We especially encourage first-generation, undocumented, and historically marginalized students to join. Let’s reach our milestones together! RVSP HERE
October 23 @ 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM The Grad Student Productive Online via Zoom Are you cleaning to avoid writing? Telling yourself that tomorrow will be the day? Struggling to find the perfect place to work? You’re not alone! The Grad Student Productive is a student-led welcoming space for grad students to focus on grading, writing, applications, studying for QEs, or any other work. These recurring sessions will be structured using the Pomodoro technique to maximize productivity. Register for one of the events offered!
October 23 @ 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Know Before You Go: Planning Resources for Fieldwork Virtual Please RSVP (for planning purposes) and/or submit advance questions for the Q&A session, here. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues. This event will be recorded. This event is designed for both travelers and their supervisors, including faculty, graduate students, postdocs, staff researchers and departmental staff involved in off-campus fieldwork, both domestic and international. It will present resources and best practices to plan for travel, and resources in case things don’t go as planned. The town hall will feature presentations from the following individuals and Q&A, with a welcome from Vice Chancellor for Research, Kathy Yelick: Sara Souza, Program Director, UC Field Research Safety, Environment Health and Safety (EH&S), Ashley Spinelli, Director, Global Engagement Office (GEO), Ivor Emmanuel, Director, Berkeley International Office (BIO), Leona Chen, Enterprise Risk Analyst, Risk Services, Khirin Carter, Prevention Manager, Graduate Programs, Path to Care Dan Parnas, Berkeley Travel. This town hall is first in a larger series, entitled “Off-Campus, Field, and International Research: Resources for a Safe and Inclusive Experience,” which will be offered throughout this academic year. Updates will be posted on the VC Research website. The next event will focus on international research. These events are brought to you by the offices of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Environment, Health & Safety.
October 23 @ 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Syllabus & Course Design Online via Zoom The GSI Center’s Workshops on Teaching for GSIs cover a wide variety of topics related to university teaching and the GSI experience. The purpose of the series is to offer GSIs, and other graduate students interested in teaching, opportunities for hands-on learning and practical discussion about pedagogy. To assist us in planning, pre-registration is required.
October 23 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Quin’s Office Hours / Hanging with the AVP The Inclusive Excellence Hub 2515 Channing Way, Berkeley Graduate students, you’re invited to drop by, "Hanging with the AVP, Quin Hussey", happening every Wednesday from 3:00 to 5:00 PM, starting September 18th! This is a fantastic opportunity to connect directly with Graduate Division leadership, learn about the latest happenings, and share what’s on your mind. Plus, enjoy a sweet treat while you’re here. No registration required, just drop in.
October 23 @ 4:10 PM - 6:10 PM Sudipta Kaviraj on The Search for Paradise Alumni House, Toll Room Berkeley Join us for a Howison Lecture with Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual History, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. Kaviraj lecture will explore The Search for Paradise, focusing on the colonial history and social science that habituated Indians intellectuals to two questionable certitudes. The first was the radical dissimilarity between modern social theory and pre-modern philosophical traditions of other, colonized societies. A second prejudice was the radical inferiority of pre-modern traditions in thinking of solutions to modern human life. In this lecture, Kaviraj will try to contest both these prejudices by using an analysis of two great traditions of Indian aesthetic-social philosophy: the Upanishads, and Vaisnava theology and poetry.