Sustainability

February 1, 2021

Arthur Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency — 3/14/21

The Art Rosenfeld Award for Energy Efficiency is a $10,000 fellowship awarded to one UC Berkeley graduate student in a Ph.D., Masters, J.D. or professional program who is committed to research on energy efficiency. This includes technical, social science and policy research that can lead to reductions in the use…

April 9, 2019

Funding Opportunity for Climate Mitigation Projects — 5/31/2019

In support of UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative, the University is soliciting ideas from members of the UC community for off-campus projects that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or sequester carbon. Under UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative, the UC system has committed to reducing…

March 10, 2019

The Earth Action Initiative Conference — 3/23/2019

The Earth Action Initiative conference is a community driven and collaborative approach to addressing the multidimensional, intersectional, and complex nature of climate change. The conference is March 23rd in Pauley Ballroom at UC Berkeley to include workshops, art, food, drink, and direct action toward tackling climate change! Check out …

January 2, 2019

Nico Linesch Boundary Crossing Scholar’s Award — 1/23/2019

The Nico Linesch Boundary Crossing Scholar’s Award is for graduate students to continue Nico’s work and design interdisciplinary internships in government agencies or nonprofits whose budgets limit their capacity to offer compensation. Eligibility Be a current post-baccalaureate student enrolled in a graduate or professional program at a California public…

July 10, 2018

Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainability — 8/20/2018

The Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowships in Sustainability address pressing world needs. This two-year postdoctoral program is unique in that the postdocs link their research at Cornell University with external non-academic partners to advance the on-the-ground application of sustainable solutions. Up to four postdocs are chosen each year. The center’s emerging strategic…

April 10, 2018

Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development — 5/31/2018

Odebrecht USA and Braskem America invite graduate students nationwide to join them in the search for innovative technologies and methods to promote sustainable and responsible development. The Odebrecht Group is a diversified business leader laying the groundwork for positive sustainable change worldwide. The Odebrecht Award for Sustainable…

March 14, 2018

Four Funding Programs: “Make Our Planet Great Again” Initiative — 4/6/2018

New funding programs have been launched as part of France’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” initiative.  Announced by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, in June 2017, this initiative has met with worldwide enthusiasm and has generated expressions of interest from a large number of outstanding students and researchers. Within…

March 21, 2016

MIT Portugal Program Call for Doctoral Program and Advanced Courses — 5/13/2016

MIT Portugal Program, a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) initiative, is a strategic partnership between Portuguese Universities and Research Centers, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and partners from industry and government. Launched in 2006 and renewed in 2013, its goal is to strengthen the country’s knowledge base and international…

October 2, 2014

The Annual Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) — 10/20/2014

Be Part of the Sustainability Solution! The Annual Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) was established to encourage and promote sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges. Submit your sustainability project or ongoing research for a chance to win the $10,000 Grand Prize. Graduate student…
EED Initiative Executive Director Dr. Helen Marquard (first on left) and United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner (second on left) present a UN SEED prize to Berkeley PhD candidate Jalel Sager (Energy and Resources, third from right), and other awardees from Vietnam, South Africa, and Uganda.

December 12, 2013

UC Berkeley Group Wins United Nations Award

United Nations SEED grant for sustainable energy development grant will fund a pilot energy project of a solar-based microgrid in an island community in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
Team members Vivek Rao and Henry Kagey observe an experiment in progress.

November 14, 2013

Graduate Students in Hermanowicz Lab Named Odebrecht Finalists

Graduate students in CEE Professor Slav Hermanowicz's Lab and collaborators received second place in 2013 Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development. The award, which includes cash prizes totaling $65,000, invites university students to search for innovative technologies and methods to promote sustainable and responsible development.

April 9, 2013

Shinnyo Fellowship — 4/1/13

The Shinnyo Fellowship provides advising and monetary support to undergraduate and graduate students who desire to implement a service, peace-building, and/or sustainable social change project locally, nationally, or globally. Project proposals should be innovative, action-oriented, and emphasize peace-building.

July 11, 2012

Mark Gorrell Zero Waste Graduate Fellowship — Open Deadline

One word: Plastics The purpose of this award, up to $2,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year, is to support graduate student research in plastics as they relate to health, the environment, and global waste and recycling systems. The specific project of the fellowship will be to research, write, and update…
student waving Cal flag

March 17, 2011

Rankings: Berkeley’s not only super, it’s the greenest

UC Berkeley is a member of a totally informal yet stratospherically exclusive club, an elite “supergroup” of six universities worldwide that are regarded head and shoulders above the rest of the throng. (The others are Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, and Oxford.)
Steven Chu

August 11, 2010

Energy Secretary advances nano science in spare time

Apparently the most-Berkeley person in the Obama cabinet, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Ph.D. '76), makes scientific contributions, and news, even while he takes it easy. "In his down time, often while flying somewhere," reported AP science writer Seth Borenstein, Chu "relaxes by tackling a scientific conundrum and stretching the limits of technology."
Karl Brown

August 11, 2010

Energy-efficiency expert (and grad alum) Karl Brown is a champ

An instrument box mounted in the depths of a campus classroom and office building is hardly a headline-grabbing weapon against climate change. But because buildings are estimated to be responsible for nearly half of all greenhouse-gas emissions, cutting-edge monitoring systems in fact are crucial tools for reducing global warming.