Summer School of Molecular Medicine at Jena — 5/25/2014 The Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research of the University Hospital of Jena, Germany, invites young scientists to participate in the Summer School of…
Berkeley Science Review Event Touches Berkeley Graduate Students Two Berkeley Ph.D. candidates participated in a recent panel discussion titled “Touch Me,” held at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley.
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.
Decoding Physical Differences, With Help from a Vital Fellowship At UC Berkeley, Lori Glenwinkle examines how animal genomes evolve in response to environmental changes. An essential fellowships gives her the intellectual freedom to explore these new paths.
294 GSIs are celebrated as officially “Outstanding” Of the many, many GSIs on campus, nearly 300 were singled out as Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors by the Graduate Division's GSI Center --- and 10 GSIs were given special recognition for their innovative solutions to teaching problems.
Berkeley Trio turns Algae into Fuel and Money At least once or twice a year, you can happen upon David Charron’s “Case Studies in Entrepreneurship” course in the Haas School of Business. In this class, students are confronted with a case study of the early days of a young start-up company called Aurora Biofuels, and asked to tackle a problem its founders, Matt Caspari, Bert Vick and Guido Radaelli, were confronted with from the outset.
Graduate Work at Cal Pays Off with a Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine What she could not know for sure, back then as a 25-year-old grad student, was that this discovery would win her — and her mentor, Elizabeth Blackburn, now at UCSF — a Nobel Prize. ... When Greider was in the market for a graduate program, after earning her B.A. at UC Santa Barbara, Berkeley was in her final two choices, narrowed not for the usual reasons, but because those were the ones that would have her.
A former Cal student and her grad advisor share a Nobel Elizabeth Blackburn, then a Berkeley professor, challenged her Ph.D. student Carol Greider in the 1980s with some research that clearly wasn’t easy. It…
Post-stem-cell-ban era begins at Berkeley MCB professor Ellen Robey (Berkeley Ph.D. '86), two of her postdocs, and a grad student are in Nature's coverage of their lab as the post-stem-cell ban era begins.