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The Spring Career & Internship Fair | STEM Day, Virtual is expressly for students seeking full-time or internship opportunities in all areas of science, technology, engineering, and math, including: software engineering, data science, IT, networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity, fintech, AI, machine learning, statistics, economics, mathematics, industrial engineering and operations research (IEOR), electrical engineering, robotics, design, mechanical engineering, medical devices, automotive and autonomous vehicles, materials science and engineering, the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, and other related fields. This fair will be hosted virtually within Handshake. All majors and degree levels are welcome to attend, but employers will specifically be seeking to fill STEM-related roles. This fair is open only to currently-enrolled UC Berkeley students and eligible alumni (less than five years past graduation with an active Handshake account). All majors and degree levels are welcome to attend.

This panel-style discussion will feature Wayfair employees from traditionally underrepresented gender groups (women, trans/nonbinary, agender, and non-conforming). Panelist will shed light on their experiences working on teams across the Technology organization, ways they bring their authentic selves to Wayfair, and the company’s initiatives to foster gender diversity in the workplace. We will conclude with Q&A and information on our open roles and how to apply! Please note that this program/event is being externally hosted by an employer, and is not affiliated with UC Berkeley. It is being shared because it may be of interest to some members of our community. Advertisement of this program/event does not indicate Institutional sponsorship or endorsement.

This workshop is designed to help GSIs understand the character and consequences of microaggressions, and to help them begin to develop the tools to address them in their role as instructors. For those who attended any one of the similarly-themed workshops during the Fall or Spring conference for first-time GSIs, this will be an opportunity to revisit some of the topics discussed there, as well as to address any issues that may have emerged in the course of teaching since. For other GSIs, this workshop will provide a basic understanding of microaggressions and an opportunity to reflect on them in the context of their own teaching.

This workshop will focus on basic LaTeX syntax: learning commands, uploading figures, notating mathematical formulas and equations, and generating bibliographies. The workshop will be taught using Overleaf, a collaborative, subscription-based tool licensed by the library. This is an interactive workshop that is best attended using a laptop instead of a tablet or phone.

A symposium in memory of Michael A. Olivas (1951-2022), who dedicated much of his life to DREAMer advocacy and to the ensuring increased Latinx representation in the legal academy. Children brought to the United States alongside their undocumented parents—DREAMers—have played an outsized role in immigrants’ rights activism in the United States over the last two decades. This symposium seeks to evaluate the DREAMer movement and its legal reception from inception to the present, as well as to sketch out possibilities for DREAMers’ future. The half-day symposium program will consist of two consecutive panels of racially diverse scholars from law schools, as well as university departments of sociology, Latinx studies, leadership studies, and education. The goal of the symposium is to bring into conversation speakers’ diverse perspectives and research agendas, to build a new foundation for study and advocacy on behalf of DREAMers.  

Are you starting a research project at UC Berkeley that involves human subjects? If so, one of the first steps you will need to take is getting IRB approval. Numerous questions can come to mind when first negotiating getting a project approved. When should you apply? Does your project require review, and if so, what kind? This course will walk you through the process of getting IRB approval for your project. After this course, you will approach getting your project approved with confidence that will save you time and avoid potential delays. Specifically, we will: Describe the origins of the institutional review board and its purpose. Introduce you to IRB at UC Berkeley. Walk through the different types of protocols to determine the best one for your project. Create a protocol and explain in-depth the different portions that make up your eprotocol. Discuss the review and amendment process. Prerequisites: None Workshop Materials:  IRB slides(link is external) and https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/IRB-Fundamentals(link is external) Feedback: After completing the workshop, please provide us feedback using this form. Questions? Email: [email protected](link sends e-mail) LOCATION: Remote via Zoom. Link will be sent on the morning of the event.

This workshop introduces students to scikit-learn, the popular machine learning library in Python, as well as the auto-ML library built on top of scikit-learn, TPOT. The focus will be on scikit-learn syntax and available tools to apply machine learning algorithms to datasets. No theory instruction will be provided. Prerequisites: D-Lab’s Python Fundamentals introductory series or equivalent knowledge. Workshop materials: https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/Python-Machine-Learning-Fundamentals(link is external) Software Requirements:Installation Instructions(link is external) for Python Anaconda Is Python Not working on your laptop? Attend the workshop anyway, we can provide you with a cloud-based solution(link is external) until you figure out the problems with your local installation. Feedback: After completing the workshop, please provide us feedback using this form Questions? Email: [email protected](link sends e-mail) LOCATION: Remote via Zoom. Link will be sent on the morning of the event.

What you’ll get out of it -----What are Career Connections?----- Join us for this casual networking event to meet Cal alumni & professionals who work in a wide variety of roles within the Entertainment industry. Check out our featured alumni! Ryan Rubin, Atomic Cartoons, Development Line Producer, BA Psychology '11 Sergio Martinez, Golden State Warriors, Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, Mass Communications, Spanish 2005 Allison Nguyen, United Talent Agency, Agent , BA Media Studies 2017 Rick Sayre, Pixar Animation Studios, Senior Production Scientist & VFX Supervisor, BA EECS '88 Ana Talos, Lauren LeMay Productions, Camera Person, BA Film Vanessa Nguyen,Le Vanguard, Director/ producer, Anthropology BA 2013 William Henderson, Sony Pictures, Vice President, BS Business '95 Shannon Morzov, Morzov Productions, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, BA English and French '99 Maxx Lee,Scanline VFX, Head of Engineering, BA L&S Computer Science '04 Randeep Bhatia, Audible, Sr. Director of Engineering, CS ‘10 Jaron Liclican, TikTok, Client Solutions Manager, B.A. American Studies ‘13 Annie Tung, Lionsgate Entertainment, Director, Marketing, BA Political Science '12, BA Media Studies '12 Matt Brueckmann, Universal Studios Hollywood, Project Manager, BS Mechanical Engineering ‘15 Aleana Zaldana LDM Digital CEO **You must RSVP to attend and receive the zoom link and password.** Open only to UC Berkeley students (all majors and class levels) and eligible Alumni.

Deepen your knowledge of inclusive teaching practices by exploring the Universal Design for Learning framework. Join us to learn more about how to center inclusion in your pedagogy, and apply this understanding through evaluating examples and resources.

What you’ll get out of it Our Engagement at ServiceNow workshops are free, virtual, career development workrshops aimed to help those looking to jumpstart their careers in the tech industry. Join us for this workshop where we explore non-tech opportunities in the tech industry.

It is said that 80% of data analysis is spent on the process of cleaning and preparing the data for exploration, visualization, and analysis. This R workshop will introduce the dplyr and tidyr packages to make data wrangling and manipulation 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 tasks. Prerequisites: D-Lab’s R Fundamentals or equivalent knowledge; previous experience with base R is assumed. Workshop Materials: https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/R-wrang (link is external) Software Requirements:Installation Instructions(link is external) for R and RStudio Is RStudio Not working on your laptop?Attend the workshop anyway, we can provide you with a cloud-based solution(link is external) until you figure out the problems with your local installation. Feedback: After completing the workshop, please provide us feedback using this form Questions? Email: [email protected](link sends e-mail) LOCATION: Remote via Zoom. Link will be sent on the morning of the event.

Whether you’re just starting a research paper or preparing a draft of your dissertation, Zotero can be a useful tool for managing your research. This session will cover advanced features that will help you maximize your use of Zotero. This session is intended for researchers who are already using Zotero. If you haven't used Zotero before, please attend one of our Introduction to Zotero workshops, as this one will not cover the basics. Given time, this session will cover: Adding existing research materials to your Zotero library Linked files vs. stored files Zotero storage vs using Zotfile to store attachments in another cloud app Creating and managing groups Zotero 6.0 PDF viewer and annotation extractor Zotero 6.0 Add note feature Indexing and searching your Zotero library and attachments Location: Zoom (link will be sent to registrants one day before the workshop)

Pandas is a Python package that provides fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with 'relational' or 'labeled' data both easy and intuitive. It enables doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. In this workshop, we'll work with example data and go through the various steps you might need to prepare data for analysis. We will cover: Pandas data structures Loading data Subsetting and filtering Calculating summary statistics Dealing with missing values Merging data sets Creating new variables Basic plotting Exporting data Prerequisites: D-Lab’s Python Fundamentals introductory series or equivalent knowledge. GitHub Repository: https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/Python-Data-Wrangling(link is external) Software Requirements:Installation Instructions(link is external) for Python Anaconda Is Python Not working on your laptop? Attend the workshop anyway, we can provide you with a cloud-based solution(link is external) until you figure out the problems with your local installation. Feedback: After completing the workshop, please provide us feedback using this form Questions? Email: [email protected](link sends e-mail) LOCATION: Remote via Zoom. Link will be sent on the morning of the event.

This is a three-hour introductory workshop that will provide an overview of Excel, with no prior experience assumed. Attendees will learn how to use functions for handling data and making calculations, how to build charts and pivot tables, and more. The workshop includes a lecture-style walkthrough of each concept, combined with challenge problems to apply each concept to a real-world data analysis application. Instructors and TAs will provide support for students using Excel on either Windows or Mac, as well as for students using Google Sheets. Prerequisites: None. Workshop Materials: https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/Excel-Fundamentals(link is external) Software Requirements: Installation Instructions(link is external) Is Excel Not working on your laptop? Attend the workshop anyway, we can provide you with a cloud-based solution(link is external) using Google Sheets. Feedback: After completing the workshop, please provide us feedback using this form Questions? Email: [email protected](link sends e-mail) LOCATION: Remote via Zoom. Link will be sent on the morning of the event.

Wikipedia’s inclusion trouble is well-documented. While the reasons are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of participation by underrepresented groups. This adds up to an alarming absence in an important repository of shared knowledge. Let’s change that! Join us on Zoom for a tutorial for the beginner Wikipedian followed by communal updating of Wikipedia entries. Edit for Change is part of UC Love Data Week. To get the Zoom link, please fill out this RSVP form

Lura Dolas (Senior Continuing Lecturer Emerita and former head of the UC Berkeley Acting Program) conducts a two-session in-person workshop to help graduate students deliver job talks and professional presentations clearly, confidently, and persuasively. The workshops offer techniques for neutralizing stage fright, identifying naturally expressive behavior, achieving personal connection in virtual presentations, and replacing flat jargon with engaging language. Exercises to expand vocal range and improve eye contact and use of gesture will enhance both live and virtual audience rapport. These workshops provide a safe, constructive environment to promote individual participation. In the first meeting, participants are given a series of exercises to enhance presentation of self and material. In the second, participants may present a short sample of a job talk or professional presentation for individual coaching.

Do you ever have trouble eliciting student participation in class? Do some consistently take the floor while others rarely speak up? Do you wish you had more strategies to get students involved with the course material? In this workshop we will discuss reasons students may tend to hold back and practical strategies to encourage them to participate more fully. Register Here.

In this workshop participants will learn how to create and use grading rubrics as a means to grade efficiently, give students targeted feedback on their learning, and align grading with learning outcomes articulated in assignments.