Reinhard Bendix Memorial Fellowship — 3/18/2019 The Institute of International Studies is accepting applications for the Reinard Bendix Memorial Fellowship. This award commemorates the scholarly achievements of the late…
Exciting Fall Offerings from Berkeley Graduate Lectures Thought-provoking lectures presented by a diverse line-up of distinguished speakers.
The New York State Senate Fellowships — 4/27/2018 Graduate Fellowships are offered by the Senate of the State of New York each year. Applicants are not required to reside or attend…
Sciences Po Teaching Fellowship Positions Sciences Po welcomes applications from post-doctoral and doctoral students close to their thesis submission for teaching positions on one of its three…
Tufts University Taps Cal Political Scholar as New Dean of Arts & Sciences After earning two degrees from Cal, James M. Glaser will head Tufts University's largest and oldest school.
New Graduate Research Seminar: The Human Right to Water — 8/20/14 Four professors seek applications from graduate students in all departments and schools to participate in an interdisciplinary research seminar on “The Human Right…
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.
Life after dissertation: What’s next for degree candidates? Political Science doctoral student Jason W. Blakely reflects on his intellectual growth at Berkeley, dissertation writing, and gratitude.
University of California Human Rights Fellowship — 2/21/2013 The Human Rights Center is holding its annual competition for student fellowships in partnership with organizations working on human rights issues. Registered students at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union are eligible, with priority given to graduate and returning students.
Synar Fellowships from IGS — 12/6/2012 Researching American politics? Consider a Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship. Apply by December 6, 2012.
Coming this fall: a season of great lectures Distinguished speakers present lectures on the future of American politics, intelligence and the brain, religion and history, and global income inequality. Admission is free.
GSI honors for a dozen new ways of helping people learn These 12 people, in some ways the crème de la crème of this year's top graduate student instructors, have effectively, and often cleverly, identified, addressed, and documented a teaching problem they encountered and, for the benefit of all, told how they solved it. Read, for instance, how Sonja Schwartz reinvented the bean jar.
Cal grad student John Osborn and undergrad Reginald James win two of the first AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarships Of the half-dozen students selected to receive the new scholarships, two will use them at Berkeley, one pursuing a graduate degree, the other an undergraduate --- together comprising one-third of the first awards, if you're counting.
This fall: a season of great (and free) Graduate Lectures The University of California, Berkeley, sponsors a variety of public lectures. The lectureships present eminent scholars, Nobel laureates, and prominent figures to…
Steps to success, or how the fellowship was won Sending in all those applications can pay off, and sometimes we hear about it. Case in point: Ph.D. student Vasundhara Sirnate was selected for a $30,000 award. She tells us how that happened.
David Wagner: debugging the vote The State of California had a Swiss-cheese factor in all three of the electronic voting systems used in its elections, a team of UC Davis and UC Berkeley researchers found.