I School Launches Certificate in Applied Data Science Beginning in Fall 2019, UC Berkeley graduate students may apply to earn a Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science from the UC Berkeley School…
Ph.D. Student Nitin Kohli Awarded for Excellence in Teaching For Nitin Kohli, teaching goes beyond just fulfilling his requirements as a graduate student instructor.
Littlest Bear 5K Run/Walk — 7/26/2018 Lace up your tennis shoes for the I School Virtual 5K Run/Walk! This summer, Berkeley I School is taking exercise virtual with the “Littlest…
Hewlett Foundation Establishes UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity In the largest-ever private donation to the field of cybersecurity, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced a $45 million grant to…
Graduate Students Win the Tech-to-Market Innovation Challenge Three Berkeley graduate students collaborated to win the Tech-to-Market Innovation Challenge on May 8, 2014.
Women’s Hackathon Honors I-School Students Four Master’s students from the School of Information competed in the one-day Women’s Hackathon at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park in April. The four designed a new Facebook feature that allows users to save and organize especially interesting content from their own timeline or from elsewhere on Facebook. Later they can “relive” that saved content in its social context.
School of Information Launches the First Fully Online Master of Information and Data Science Program The program will provide hands-on experience for exploring and finding patterns in complicated, real-world data, and for communicating the findings with decision makers.
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.
MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program Berkeley has its first crop of graduate and undergraduate students in the new the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, which helps financially disadvantaged students from Sub-Saharan Africa. Meet the first three grad students, who hail from Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.
The Symantec/UC Berkeley Symposium — a confluence of minds on computer security and more On February 15, two normally quite separate entities got together --- to exchange ideas and information, and to simply get to know each other better. That was the plan, and it clearly worked.
I School Ph.D. students enlist in an all-volunteer boot camp — no push-ups, no marching, just lots and lots of writing For two weeks in May, the lone “bong” of the Campanile chiming one p.m. signaled the end of a long morning of labor for a determined group of Information School doctoral students, plus one from the Haas School of Business.
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.
Grad students recommend more transparent internet privacy policies Their new report calls for significant changes, including increased user choice and more readable privacy statements.