August 20, 2012
Tips on how to get the most out of the 11 million items in Berkeley collections, from the experts.
August 20, 2012
Peter Soler, a chemical engineering grad student, with the help of an NSF research fellowship, is helping build an artificial kidney that may be a game-changer for two million patients.
August 20, 2012
Berkeley people — including grad alumni — are at the heart of a vital resource where you can find out, online, how all of earth's known frogs, toads, and salamanders are doing.
August 20, 2012
A Public Health alumna (and professor), Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, shocked by what junk food had done to young teeth in parts of the world where decay had been nearly unknown, founded a volunteer project that's now saving smiles in five countries around the world.
August 20, 2012
Fellowships with deadlines in September and October 2012.
August 19, 2012
This multi-session two-day conference, now in its 39th year, will be held October 12–13, 2012, at Saint Louis University. The featured speaker, giving a memorial lecture on manuscript studies, will be independent scholar David Ganz, on “The Importance of Half Uncial Script.” For inquiries, contact Barbara Channell: via telephone…
August 7, 2012
This marks the 13th consecutive year that Berkeley Optometry students have joined Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH) in providing eye care to the under-served community. For Cal’s doctors-in-training, the four-day service trip is a true eye-opener.
July 11, 2012
Message from the Dean: What do the afterglow of the Big Bang and the influence of facial hair on 19th-century American presidential politics have in common? The new SMART program, being piloted this summer with graduate students mentoring undergrads in hands-on research.
July 11, 2012
Start-up days: South Hall and North Hall, circa 1874 UC Berkeley wasn’t always what you see today. In 1868, and for some years thereafter, it was just a start-up. Now, after 144 years of climbing and accomplishment, Berkeley is, by a wide spectrum of measures, a world leader.
July 11, 2012
The first-ever fellowship award from the Philip Brett LGBT Fund was made this spring by a faculty committee choosing from a highly competitive field of 19 applicants. The winner was Chris Atwood, a Ph.D. student in Italian Studies. He is currently working on his dissertation, which is entitled: “‘Wanting Home’:…
July 11, 2012
At a dinner in May, the UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate gave its highest honor, the Clark Kerr Award, to two people with high-profile connections to the Berkeley campus, Robert M. Berdahl, who was Berkeley's eighth chancellor, and Marian C. Diamond, professor emeritus of integrative biology and a world-renowned brain researcher.
July 11, 2012
Two alumni who happen to be star-quality technology executives came back to Berkeley in May to give graduation speeches.
July 11, 2012
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers to build the nation’s capacity for leadership and research that addresses the multiple determinants of population health and contributes to policy change. The program is…
July 11, 2012
The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for its 2013-2016 fellowship competition. Four three-year postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded (one in any discipline represented by the society, one in East Asian studies, one in humanistic studies, and one…
July 11, 2012
One word: Plastics The purpose of this award, up to $2,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year, is to support graduate student research in plastics as they relate to health, the environment, and global waste and recycling systems. The specific project of the fellowship will be to research, write, and update…
June 1, 2012
Dear Graduate Students, As the spring semester drew to a close, I enjoyed several opportunities to celebrate great teaching by graduate students. At the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award ceremony on the first of May at International House, we acknowledged the excellent work of 276 GSIs, out of the more…
June 1, 2012
Their departments nominate them, a GSI-related faculty committee selects them, and colleagues, family, and friends come together to honor them in a commencement-like ceremony. What it all means is that they're already pretty darn good teachers.
June 1, 2012
These 12 people, in some ways the crème de la crème of this year's top graduate student instructors, have effectively, and often cleverly, identified, addressed, and documented a teaching problem they encountered and, for the benefit of all, told how they solved it. Read, for instance, how Sonja Schwartz reinvented the bean jar.
June 1, 2012
So far, nobody’s let the cat out of the bag, so the surprise has been total in every case. Despite Berkeley’s long tradition of protest and California’s reputation for spontaneity, faculty members here simply don’t expect to be interrupted by outsiders while they’re teaching a class. When it dawns on them that the invasion brings unexpected but happy news for them personally, decorum goes out the window.
June 1, 2012
This September, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation will present its 13th international conference, which is expected to attract 150 academic and industry scientists from around the world who seek to accelerated the development of innovative treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. ADDF’s funded investigators and top level scientists in…