APASD Circles of Support Program Seeks Grad Student Mentors Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD) announces the Circles of Support program! This is an opportunity for you to help support undergraduate students…
GSIs and Faculty Win Awards for Teaching and Mentorship GSIs and faculty mentors were honored for their excellence with award ceremonies and presentations this spring.
Mentoring Awards Recognize Outstanding Faculty Seven faculty members were honored for their outstanding mentoring of graduate students.
Getting the Mentoring You Need The success of mentoring relationships depends not only on faculty but also on you as the mentee. Check out a dozen specific steps you can take to get the mentoring you need.
SMART Graduate Application Deadline — 11/21/2016 Doctoral students from all departments and schools are invited to apply for the SMART (Student Mentoring and Research Teams) Program for summer 2017.
Developing Mentoring Skills Knowing how to effectively mentor students and junior colleagues is a vital skill for graduate students preparing for diverse careers, whether within or beyond academia.
American Bar Foundation Fellowships — 12/1/2015 The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is dedicated to advancing justice through rigorous research on the law, legal practices, and the law’s impact…
UC Berkeley Faculty Recognized by Mentorship Awards This year, five exceptional professors were honored as some of the top mentors on campus.
Graduate/Undergraduate Research Teams Inspire SMART Participants and Dollar-for-Dollar Gift Match The Graduate Division is highlighting the SMART mentoring program in the November 20, 2014, “Big Give” and will double every gift, dollar for dollar.
Fellowship Allows Students to Inform Change in Higher Education by helping faculty collect and analyze data that could inform curriculum development.
Call for Nominations for the Faculty Mentor Award and Carol D. Soc Award for Exceptional Mentoring — 2/6/2015 Carol D. Soc Award winner, Linda Williams (Film and Media Studies and Rhetoric) gathers with her graduate students at the Graduate Mentoring…
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for Iraq and Junior Faculty Development Programs for Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for Iraq and the Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program for Lebanon and Palestinian Territories are designed to…
Call for Applications to SMART Program for Summer 2015 — 11/24/2014 In last year’s cohort Lindsey Dougherty, a Ph.D. student in Integrated Biology and her mentee—Alex Niebergall, a third-year Marine Science major conducted…
Deadlines to Nominate Outstanding Faculty Mentors February 7th & March 3rd Every year, three campus award programs recognize faculty who have provided outstanding mentorship to their graduate students.
Faculty honored at Graduate Mentoring Awards ceremony The seventh annual Graduate Mentoring Awards ceremony honored members of the faculty selected for their outstanding commitment to help graduate students succeed academically, professionally, and personally.
This could be the start of something big Message from the Dean: What do the afterglow of the Big Bang and the influence of facial hair on 19th-century American presidential politics have in common? The new SMART program, being piloted this summer with graduate students mentoring undergrads in hands-on research.
GSIs (and their mentors) are central to Berkeley’s teaching mission Dear Graduate Students, As the spring semester drew to a close, I enjoyed several opportunities to celebrate great teaching by graduate students.…
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.
Mentoring comes of age at Berkeley Not all aspects of a dean’s job bring smiles; it’s hardly possible to please everyone all the time. That said, there are…
March and April teaching and mentoring: an award, workshops, and time to apply for an institute 2011 winner Susan Muller and her GSIs GSIs: do you have a great mentor? Nominate by March 5. Mentoring award nominations: Nominations…