David P. Gardner Research Seminar on Higher Education Fellows and Stipend — 7/31/2019 Graduate students writing dissertations focusing on higher education are invited to apply for membership in a research seminar, co-sponsored by the Social…
Developing, Testing, and Refining Curriculum: Utilizing Tensegrities to Explore Energy & Energy Transformation Engineering design allows students to apply “classroom” science to real-life applications in a fun and exciting way.
Berkeley Lab’s Workforce Development & Education (WD&E) Department is Seeking a Communications Student Assistant Berkeley Lab’s Workforce Development & Education (WD&E) Department has one opening for a Communications Student Assistant to research, write, and edit impact reports and other…
Leveraging Video Analysis to Examine the Relationship between Undergraduate Research and Science Identity A graduate student uses her newly-developed skills to consider the nuanced perspective a young scientist may have with their role in the scientific community.
EducationUSA Ukraine Intern — 7/31/2018 EducationUSA is recruiting virtual interns from the U.S. for supporting EducationUSA projects! The two interns will work with a cohort of about 70…
Doctoral Student Receives the Paul Crissey Graduate Student Research Award Social Welfare PhD student honored for study on child maltreatment.
Position Opening: Research Assistant III (Science Education) Funded by the Barbara Y. White Fund through the Graduate School of Education, this work has been designed by Laleh Coté, a doctoral…
Spotlight on Fulbright Scholars: Cristobal Madero Cristobal Madero is a doctoral student in the area of Education Policy and a Fulbright scholar. After 10 years of teaching in Chile, he came to Berkeley to research how schools might help teachers develop a passion for their profession.
Opportunity For Graduate Students In Education Graduate students writing dissertations focusing on higher education are invited to apply for membership in a research seminar to be held in…
National Attention to Doctoral Students’ Projects Berkeley doctoral students' outstanding projects and research were recently featured in publications and at a local summit.
Public Policy Student Advocates for Prison Reform in New Memoir Ralph Spinelli, a Ph.D. student in the Goldman School of Public Policy, shares his ideas for prison reform in his recently published book.
Graduate Students Launch Program to Help Budding Social Workers Social Workers in Classroom participants with officers Maggie Bishop and Galina Melamed (second and third from the left). A new student-led program aimed…
Humanity in Action: Diplomacy and Diversity Scholarship — 10/30/2014 Humanity in Action has opened applications for the 2015 Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship, a graduate-level educational fellowship. This transatlantic program brings together 24…
Berkeley Students Recognized by NAEd/Spencer Fellowship Four UC Berkeley students were awarded National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for their research in the field of education. Each recipient was given a $25,000 cash prize for the 2014-15 academic year and an opportunity to network with members of NAE and other senior scholars during a retreat.
The key to totally surprising a mentor: no leaks 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.
Meet the Winners of the 2012 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest Meet the winners of the 2012 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest: First Place: Jeremy Chase Crawford. Second Place: Arturo Cortez. Third Place: Kristina Kangas. Winners received conference travel awards in the amounts of $1,000, $500, and $250, respectively.
A Passport to Opportunity Françoise Tourniaire Ph.D. ’84 has an adventurous spirit—except when it comes to the cold. That’s how Tourniaire, as a young math student from France, happened to land at UC Berkeley for a yearlong study-abroad program in 1979. Berkeley got the nod over chilly Cornell.