February 11, 2018

The Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowship — 3/30/2018

The Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowship was established in 2012 with a gift from Robert P. Lin’s wife, Lily Lin. It will be used to support outstanding graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, who pursue research related to space sciences, including, but not limited to, students with training…

February 13, 2015

Astrophysics Ph.D. Student Discovers New Solar System

Erik Petigura found three planets that are similar to the Earth by analyzing data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.

September 11, 2013

Berkeley Alumnus Wins PEN Literary Award

Last month UC Berkeley alumnus Leonard Mlodinow was awarded the PEN: E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for his book Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior.

April 9, 2013

Joanne Wood Scholarship — 4/12/2013

This scholarship was established to assist exceptional students with financial need in obtaining a masters or graduate degree in: business, mathematics, computer science, biology, physics or chemistry.

November 20, 2012

National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) Fellowships — 11/30/2012

The NPSC seeks a broad applicant pool for its multi-year fellowships, with special emphasis on underrepresented minorities and women.

January 27, 2012

Fellowships: do people here get them? People do.

Many apply, but few are chosen. Are any of those few from Berkeley? It’s unpredictable, but yes, it definitely happens. Here are some recent cases in point.

December 14, 2011

Perlmutter collects his Nobel

Accompanied by his wife, Laura Nelson, and daughter, Noa, Perlmutter and the other newly named Nobelists, their families, friends and colleagues arrived in Stockholm for the start of festivities on Tuesday, December 6.

October 20, 2011

Saul Perlmutter Ph.D. ‘89 wins the Nobel Prize in Physics

Talking about the discovery that led to the prize, Perlmutter said in a press conference that it was "the slowest aha moment you've ever heard"

May 15, 2011

Steve Chu and six other grad alumni receive top Cal Alumni Association honors at Charter Gala

The Cal Alumni Association had a big party --- its annual Charter Gala --- April 9 at San Francisco’s City Hall to celebrate the university’s birthday and to physically present the association’s 2011 alumni awards (publicly announced back in December 2010).

May 21, 2010

Three of the world’s most popular online course lectures are by UC Berkeley professors

Three of the world's most popular online course lectures — as measured by view-counts of the videos thereof, posted on the video giant YouTube on April 1 of this year — are by UC Berkeley professors, and all three of those have Berkeley degrees. In fact, they have seven Berkeley degrees among the trio, five at the graduate level.

April 7, 2010

Two scientists, both with Berkeley graduate degrees, are now “national icons”

The microphones did not pick up Barack Obama’s private words to MIT biochemist JoAnne Stubbe just before he draped the ribbon with her National Medal of Science around her neck, but his public ones were of gratitude on behalf of the American people. Minutes before, he had expressed similar sentiments about retired physicist Berni Alder.

May 17, 2009

Adventure Man

In a field where the progress of research and career are usually sequential, orderly, and predictable, Rich Muller is a wild card, rocketing wherever the first tantalizing inkling of a puzzle takes him until he has the explanation pinned down satisfactorily. Then he abruptly goes elsewhere, as if cued by the Monty Python catchphrase (first used to introduce a sketch about a man with three buttocks) — “And now for something completely different.”

October 9, 2007

John W. Gofman: a nuclear chemist who raised questions

John Gofman in 1979. Photo: Egan O’Connor In mid-August, John Gofman died at the age of 88. He was widely known in a variety of roles: physician, cardiac researcher, radiation scientist, and nuclear safety advocate. While working for his Ph.D. here in the 1940s under Glenn T.