February 7, 2017

Sciences Po Teaching Fellowship Positions

Sciences Po welcomes applications from post-doctoral and doctoral students close to their thesis submission for teaching positions on one of its three Anglophone undergraduate campuses in France: Reims, Menton or Le Havre. Each campus focuses on a world region and offers a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degree in History,…

October 17, 2013

Attend the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting — 10/17/2014

The University of California, Berkeley has been invited to submit four nominations to Mars, Incorporated, to be considered for the exciting opportunity to attend the 65th annual meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, from June 28 through July 3, 2015. Requirements to apply: US Citizen and currently enrolled at the university…

November 20, 2012

Between now and next semester

A short list of important dates, including deadlines for filing thesis and dissertation, for In-Absentia registration, and for nominating faculty members for mentoring honors. Oh, and holidays!

September 12, 2012

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.

July 11, 2012

Berkeley Academic Senate’s 2012 top honor goes to former chancellor Robert Berdahl and professor-alumna Marian Diamond

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.

Teaching Effectiveness Award recipients 2012

June 1, 2012

GSI honors for a dozen new ways of helping people learn

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.

November 12, 2010

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.

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