Fellowship and Grant Workshops

See organizers’ website for details   Improve your teaching and enhance student learning through the use of mid-semester evaluations and Classroom Assessment Techniques. Know how to respond productively to student feedback and use the information you receive on final course evaluations to set goals for improvement.

See organizers’ website for details It is often said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data. This workshop will introduce tools (notably dplyr and tidyr) that makes data wrangling and manipulation much easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages to subset and reshape data sets, do calculations across groups of data, clean data, and other useful stuff. Click here for install instructions and workshop materials.

See organizers’ website for details The Business & Non-Technical Career & Internship Fair (All Majors) is expressly for students seeking full-time and internship opportunities in non-technical business fields including finance, corporate banking, insurance, real estate, business analysis, marketing, communications, sales, customer service, rotational programs, management, and other related fields.

See organizers’ website for details Zoom is a campus supported video conferencing tool for synchronous meetings and/or asynchronous recordings. Join us for an interactive session that explores how Zoom can be used to enhance instruction and online collaboration. This workshop will provide a basic overview of key features. For guidance on advanced features, please check out Zoom to the Next Level! For help with account issues or technical troubleshooting, please contact [email protected](link sends e-mail).

See organizers’ website for details Building off of our "Getting Started with Zoom" workshop, "Zoom to the Next Level" is an interactive session that explores what we learned using Zoom during our first semester in the cloud and the improvements that will be available in the Spring.  We asked students what they wish their professors knew when teaching with Zoom.  This workshop will provide a more advanced overview of key features, including: New Features this Fall Breakout Rooms Polling Presentations and Media Privacy and Security Setting Zoom integrations with bCourses and Kaltura Backup plans and Google Meet

See organizers’ website for details Geospatial data are an important component of social science and humanities data visualization and analysis. This workshop will introduce basic methods for working with geospatial data in Python using GeoPandas, a relatively new Python library for working with geospatial data that has matured and stabilized in the last few years. In the workshop we will import geospatial data stored in shapefiles and CSV files into geopandas objects. We will explore methods for subsetting and spatial reshaping these objects. We will use geopandas methods for defining and transforming coordinate reference systems. Participants will also join tabular data to geospatial data and create maps based on the data values. Knowledge Requirements: Basic knowledge of geospatial data is expected. Python experience equivalent to the D-Lab Python Fundamentals workshop series is required to follow along with the tutorial. Technology Requirements: Bring a laptop with Python 3 and the following Python packages installed: pandas, numpy, matplotlib, geopandas, shapely and folium. If you do not have these installed you can follow along in the Google Collaboratory online python environment.

Completing your undergraduate or graduate studies may mean that you have acquired student loan debt along the way. Whether you are dealing with your own educational debt or helping a family member manage their student loans, we invite you to join us for a tactical webinar where you will learn strategies and options to manage student loan debt. This session will cover details on types of student loans, repayment options, deferment, loan refinancing and approaches to managing and paying off student loans. You'll also gain advice and insights from fellow UC alumni on how they've approached their student loans and strategies that have helped them to minimize debt.

See organizers’ website for details This workshop will have exercises to help you explore a career field that uses your skills. Please note - this is an interactive event, and it will be helpful to have your laptop at this workshop, even if you access the Zoom by phone. If you require an accommodation for effective communication to fully participate in this event, please contact us with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event. - QB3-Berkeley Graduate and Postdoc Career Development office.

As Berkeley commemorates 150 Years of Women, we celebrate two exemplary psychology Ph.D. alumnae who are working for the public good at a time of misinformation and shocking disparities. Laura Helmuth, Editor in Chief, Scientific American, and Sybil Madison, Deputy Mayor, Education and Human Service, Chicago will reflect on lessons from psychology that inform science reporting and city governance to promote equity. They will also share their experience as women forging novel career pathways.   Q&A will be moderated by Arianne Eason, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Jennifer Pearlstein, Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Science.  

See organizers’ website for details An introduction to programming basics in Bash and GitHub that are often assumed, but that you might have never had good instruction on! The first half of this workshop will introduce you navigating your computer’s filesystem and basic Bash commands to remove the fear of working with the command line to give you the confidence to use it to increase your productivity. The second half of this workshop will introduce you to Git, a powerful tool for keeping track of changes you make to the files in a project. You can use it to synchronize your work across computers, collaborate with others, and even deploy applications to the cloud. In this workshop, you will learn the basics to understand and use Git, including working with the popular "social coding" website, GitHub.