Postdoctoral Scholar Positions Available at the Center for Advanced Imaging at Harvard Join the Center for Advanced Imaging at Harvard as a Postdoctoral Scholar! The Center for Advanced Imaging at Harvard is seeking life…
Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal) — 12/10/2018 Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal) is calling for applications for six doctoral scholarships to start in 2019–2020 focusing on cutting-edge areas of Information and Communication…
IEEE Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA) — 7/1/2016 With the advent of cloud-based systems, cloud operators have been aiming at reliable, secured, privacy-preserving and cost-efficient cloud design and management. The…
Two EECS Affiliates are Finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition Sangyoon Han Berkeley’s Sangyoon Han and Tae Joon Seok are among the 2015 finalists in the Graduate Division of the 2015 Collegiate Inventors Competition (CIC). Sangyoon Han, a Ph.D. candidate in the…
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) — 1/27/2015 Department of Energy is now accepting applications for the prestigious Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). This program provides up to four…
Siebel Scholars Award Creates Unmatched Networking Community In September this award was granted to eight Berkeley graduate students for excellence in their field.
Researcher Michael Jordan Wins $100,000 Rumelhart Prize for Cognitive Science Michael Jordan, a leading UC Berkeley faculty researcher in the fields of computer science and statistics, is the 2015 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize, a prestigious honor reserved for those who have made fundamental contributions to the theoretical foundations of human cognition.
Joanne Wood Scholarship — 4/12/2013 This scholarship was established to assist exceptional students with financial need in obtaining a masters or graduate degree in: business, mathematics, computer science, biology, physics or chemistry.
Getting ready to start your startup At Berkeley today, budding entrepreneurs can test their mettle in competitions, team up with like-minded thinkers, bend the ears of faculty and industry experts, and find guidance toward funding, all on campus or very nearby.
2012 at Berkeley: a quick look back A year with leaping lizards and tailed robots, a $60-million-dollar institute for Berkeley, a theory proven 40 years later, a crucial election, and a transition at the very top of the campus food chain.
Berkeley leads the way in NSF fellowships The National Science Foundation fellowship is a crown jewel of graduate student awards. And Berkeley students lead the nation in capturing these prestigious and highly competitive grants. Here are 6 of this year's recipients.
Coming this fall: a season of great lectures Distinguished speakers present lectures on the future of American politics, intelligence and the brain, religion and history, and global income inequality. Admission is free.
Google’s Eric Schmidt and two other grad alumni receive high Cal Alumni Association honors The magnitude of what the faculty and the students did back then still makes Schmidt reflective. “The consequence of our research,” says the self-confessed former nerd, with “our” meaning all those physicists and semiconductor-makers and others, “is that another five billion people will join the global conversation. That’s billion with a b.”
Fellowships: do people here get them? People do. Many apply, but few are chosen. Are any of those few from Berkeley? It’s unpredictable, but yes, it definitely happens. Here are some recent cases in point.
‘Search the literature’ gets a whole new ease from a doctoral student Aditi Muralidharan, a doctoral student in computer science, has changed the nature of literary scholarship by introducing something like human intuition to the process of searching via computer, thereby shrinking what used to take days and months to mere minutes.
Top honors will be given to grad alumni by the Cal Alumni Association Three alumni with Berkeley graduate degrees will be honored March 24 at the Cal Alumni Association’s traditional Charter Gala, being held this year at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel.
Impatience helped produce Unix — and, eventually, some big honors It only took 40-some years, but Unix pioneers Ken Thompson (a Berkeley alum) and Dennis Ritchie have waited --- and continued to breathe --- long enough to receive a major international honor for their creation. They were announced in January as 2011 recipients of the Japan Prize.
Two more “geniuses” for Berkeley Thanks to two young faculty members — and, of course, the MacArthur Foundation — the already-sizeable total of active Berkeley campus MacArthur "genius" Fellows grew to 32 at the end of September.
Threesomes get noticed Stills from "Old People Driving," "Guests of Space," and "The Stinking Ship." Two trios of grad students made the news recently, not…
Love among the technically-inclined Together throughout grad school and married in 2007, Ben and Juliet Rubinstein both walked across the Greek Theatre stage in May with…