GradNews

June 10, 2021

Monica De La Cruz: You Either Help People or You Don’t

Photo of Monica de la Cruz Monica De La Cruz is pursuing a doctorate in UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare with the goal of crafting policies that actively improve peoples’ economic health in the Bay Area. However, this wasn’t always De…

May 22, 2021

Baxter Young Investigator Awards — 6/30/2021

Baxter’s Young Investigator Awards reward research applicable to the development of therapies and medical products that save and sustain patients’ lives. They invite current graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to submit descriptions of ongoing research. The Baxter Young Investigator Awards program consists of two tiers: first-tier awards include a…
Daniela Medina in cap and gown

May 15, 2021

Daniela Medina: Uplifting People Closest to Incarceration 

Daniela Medina Daniela Medina, a second year master’s student in UC Berkeley’s Social Welfare program, dedicates her studies, work, and life to supporting formerly and currently incarcerated and system-impacted people. Within Berkeley, she works as a mentor with Berkeley Underground…

May 14, 2021

View Graduating MFA Exhibitions at BAMPFA

From 2020 MFA graduate Brian Bartz: Virid, 2020; pigment print on archival paper; 42 x 24 in.; courtesy of the artist. The 50th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition May 14–June 20, 2021 Every year since 1970, BAMPFA and UC Berkeley’s Department of…

May 14, 2021

International House accepting applications for room and board scholarships

We are currently accepting scholarship applications for Fall 2021 and Academic Year 2021-22. The purpose of the I-House Scholarship program is to offer UC Berkeley students who demonstrate financial need an opportunity to experience, firsthand, cultures from all over the world while enabling international students to…
Engineering student examines a glass chip.

May 14, 2021

Competition For Most Patentable Capstone Project Idea – 6/30/21

Photo: Timothy Vernon, MEng ’17. The College of Engineering Office for Post-Baccalaureate Programs and the UC Berkeley Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer are happy to announce the Competition for the Most Patentable Innovation for Students. Eligible projects include: capstone, coursework, hackathons, and/or independent research. Individuals and teams…

May 14, 2021

What you need to do before OskiCat and Melvyl retire

On July 27, a sweeping new project will unify Berkeley’s vast collections (physical and digital) and bring together the collections of libraries across UC’s 10 campuses under one virtual roof. UC Library Search, a new system for discovering and using library resources, will allow students, faculty,…

May 14, 2021

Exploring opportunities outside the academy? Join the Beyond Academia community.

Beyond Academia: Connecting PhDs with the world The process of earning a PhD is a Sisyphean endeavor, involving painstaking research of a niche topic for anywhere from 5 to 10 years. The promise on the other side of these degrees is employability, especially within the academic institutional system that produced…
Kathleen and Yakira

May 14, 2021

NSF Fellowships Support Future Research for Outstanding Graduate Recipients

Among universities across the nation, UC Berkeley has historically topped the list of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows. This prestigious and competitive fellowship provides significant funding over one to three years, allowing students to pursue important research in fields ranging from cognitive neuroscience and bioengineering to public policy and…

May 14, 2021

How a GradPro Check-in Group Can Support You This Summer

Photo: Shane Rounce, Unsplash For most graduate students, summer feels like a breath of fresh air. Summer is a whole three months where we feel like we finally have the time to catch up on the pile of papers we’ve been collecting, tear into our…

May 14, 2021

A Summer Reading List for Professional Development

Photo: Ben White, Unplash Summer reading is a dedicated market for popular literature, and it’s also an umbrella term for graduate students looking to catch up on disciplinary reading outside of the traditional semester. You may already have an academic reading list for this summer of texts…

May 14, 2021

Berkeley Launches New Future of Higher Education Postdoc Program

UC Berkeley has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program designed to expose participants to and prepare them for careers in higher education administration. The Future of Higher Education Postdoctoral Fellowship Program seeks to address the need for career pipelines and pathways beyond the professoriate, and the critical lack of…

May 14, 2021

Upcoming Trainings Opportunities for GSIs

Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) continues to offer workshops to support remote, hybrid, and in-person instruction which are open to all instructors and GSIs. Review upcoming workshops below and visit AIS upcoming events for all future events: Maximizing Media Production for Student Engagement (5/18) Getting Started with…

May 14, 2021

Farewell to Two Long-Serving Staff Members

Cynthia Ladd-Viti and Linda Miyagawa, two long-serving staff members of the Graduate Division, are retiring. Below are summaries and highlights from their time at UC Berkeley. Cynthia Ladd-Viti, Associate Director, Office for Graduate Diversity Cynthia Ladd-Viti Ladd-Viti took a circuitous path to Berkeley,…

May 13, 2021

JSMF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-Scale Systems — 6/11/2021

The James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems is intended to provide students in the final stages of completing a Ph.D. degree more freedom in identifying and securing postdoctoral training opportunities. Following a multi-phase review of applications, selected pre-doctoral students are granted…

April 19, 2021

Antiracism in the Academy Seminar — 4/29/21

Moderator and Speakers Patrick V. Naranjo, Moderator Patrick V. Naranjo is a tribal member of the Santa Clara Pueblo and a graduate from Haskell Indian Nations University. He holds an MA degree from UCLA in American Indian Studies with an emphasis on contemporary tribal cultural property protections and is an…