Dean Doyle Goes to Washington
Seven UC Graduate Deans advocate for graduate education.
Seven UC Graduate Deans advocate for graduate education.
Beginning July 1, 2019, Fiona Doyle, accomplished engineer, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, Dean of the Graduate Division, and the Donald H. McLaughlin Professor of Mineral Engineering, will retire from the University of California, Berkeley. With over 35 years on … Continued
Chancellor Christ and Senator Nancy Skinner joined the Graduate Assembly and Cal Alumni Association for an evening to discuss the future of public graduate education.
Education Research Day is an annual conference hosted by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education that offers an opportunity for students to share work with their peers, faculty, and community members and engage in fruitful discussion about a range of issues … Continued
Legislators at all levels need to know about the importance of graduate research.
This March marked the seventh year that UC Berkeley has participated in the Graduate Research & Education Advocacy Day in Sacramento.
With the New Year, GDP welcomes a new director, Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity, Abby Rincon.
UC Berkeley students are at the heart of a novel about race and friendship in T. Geronimo’s new book, “Welcome to Braggsville.”
Designated Emphasis in Development Engineering A designated emphasis is a specialization, such as a new method of inquiry or an important field of application, which is relevant to two or more existing doctoral degree programs. It is added as an … Continued
Want to share your story? The editors of the book All I Needed to Know to Survive Grad School are seeking a diverse group of students and recent alums to describe how their past experiences helped them to develop the … Continued
A delegation of 20 graduate students and deans traveled to Sacramento to give lawmakers their perspective: that graduate student research is central not only to the future of the University of California, but to that of the state and the nation as well.
In the late afternoon of February 9, students and staff gathered in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall for a first-time Town Hall with the Graduate Dean. Co-sponsored by the Graduate Assembly, this occasion offered a direct and relatively … Continued
In the late afternoon of February 9, students and staff gathered in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall for a first-time Town Hall with the Graduate Dean. So all graduate students may benefit from what was said, the questions and answers from the event are now available online.
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Graduate Dean Andrew Szeri discusses why and how our academic enterprise matters to the state of California, the U.S., everywhere.
The first detailed survey since 1995 of doctoral programs at the nation’s research universities shows that the University of California, Berkeley, continues to have the largest number of highly ranked graduate programs in the country.
In an August 29 feature entitled “30 Ways to Rate a College” for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Alex Richards and Ron Coddington created a clear and revealing interactive map to the major rankings showing what measures are important to … Continued
Julie Kang, a psychology graduate student at UC Riverside, stated the case more baldly than most: “Without graduate students, (the university) quite honestly would come to a screeching halt.” A troupe of graduate division deans and graduate students from each … Continued
Despite a budget shortfall, hiring freeze and higher fees, the University of California, Berkeley, continues to attract more and higher quality graduate students, according to new data from the campus’s Graduate Division.
By far, students say their top reasons to come to UC Berkeley include the chance to work with distinguished faculty and to earn their degrees from world-class graduate programs.
Andrew Szeri savors his walk to work each day, winding through the scenic neighborhoods of Berkeley. He says the journey to Sproul Hall is peaceful and provides time to think before he dives into the emails and voicemails that await him.