December 11, 2018
Seven UC Graduate Deans advocate for graduate education.
August 27, 2018
Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California; Fiona Doyle, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division; and Joe Charbonnet, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering and 2018 UC Grad Slam Champion. Beginning July 1, 2019, Fiona Doyle, accomplished engineer, Vice Provost for Graduate Studies,…
May 10, 2018
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.
March 15, 2018
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 in education research. The 18th annual conference will take place…
April 12, 2017
Legislators at all levels need to know about the importance of graduate research.
April 13, 2016
This March marked the seventh year that UC Berkeley has participated in the Graduate Research & Education Advocacy Day in Sacramento.
January 15, 2016
With the New Year, GDP welcomes a new director, Assistant Dean for Graduate Diversity, Abby Rincon.
March 16, 2015
UC Berkeley students are at the heart of a novel about race and friendship in T. Geronimo's new book, "Welcome to Braggsville."
November 17, 2014
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 additional major along with an existing doctoral degree program. This…
January 6, 2014
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 knowledge, skills, and habits of mind that lead to their…
March 21, 2012
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.
March 20, 2012
Scene: Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall, February 9. Dramatis personae: the graduate community, particularly students (including Graduate Assembly president Bahar Navab, bottom center) who had plenty of questions, and Graduate Dean Andrew Szeri (on stage and lower right), as the Answer Man. Immediately setting an informal tone,…
March 7, 2012
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.
January 18, 2012
Help us improve your experience as a graduate student!
April 27, 2011
Graduate Dean Andrew Szeri discusses why and how our academic enterprise matters to the state of California, the U.S., everywhere.
October 19, 2010
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 each rater — and how few they actually have in common.
August 11, 2010
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."
June 2, 2010
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.
May 2, 2008
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.