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…
Deadlines coming up: faculty mentoring awards, master’s candidacy, and more Upcoming deadlines for Filing Fee application; Candidacy application for a Spring 2012 Master's degree; Sarlo, Faculty, and Outstanding Mentorship of GSI award nominations.
Have you ever thought about mentoring an undergrad? The ASUC Undergraduate/Graduate Mentorship Program (UGMP) provides an opportunity for graduate students to mentor undergraduate students considering the pursuit of an advanced academic degree. The graduate student will offer advice and answers to the undergraduate who is interested in gaining more knowledge about his/her academic field of interest, the graduate school process, or just about future academic endeavors.
Faculty who guide grad students are honored, ready or not The unselfish help of mentors was recently recognized by the Graduate Division, the Sarlo Foundation, and the Graduate Assembly, in a warm gathering and in two friendly ambush-style presentations.
Outstanding GSIs and their mentors are honored: a quick preview Outstanding GSIs, and mentors of GSIs, were honored in droves over the past few weeks. We’ll be saying more, in detail and with pictures, in the near future, but meanwhile here are the categories — at least those which fall under the umbrella of the Graduate Division (and, in one case, its partner, the Graduate Assembly).
Reminder: to honor your mentors, nominate them now! Every year, the Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly team up to call public attention to the exemplary and caring assistance individual…
Set the stage for honoring faculty mentors — nominate now! Every year, the Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly team up to call public attention to the exemplary and caring assistance individual faculty members have provided to their students.
Grad Division and Graduate Assembly team up to honor mentors In the 1970s, the Berkeley campus was, a veteran faculty member told a concerned new assistant professor, “not a loving institution.”