January 18, 2012
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January 18, 2012
As Dean Szeri mentioned in his message this month, the Graduate Division has expanded its online connections to include Facebook and Twitter.
January 18, 2012
Find more information about The Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship, Chateaubriand Science Fellowship, Berkeley Language Center Research Fellowship, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, a health care scholarship, and California Science and Technology Policy Fellowships.
January 18, 2012
Aditi Muralidharan, a doctoral student in computer science, has changed the nature of literary scholarship by introducing something like human intuition to the process of searching via computer, thereby shrinking what used to take days and months to mere minutes.
January 18, 2012
Greg Goldsmith has his head in the clouds. But the Berkeley graduate student is also firmly grounded in today’s reality: the Central American cloud forests he loves are threatened by global warming.
January 18, 2012
Three alumni with Berkeley graduate degrees will be honored March 24 at the Cal Alumni Association’s traditional Charter Gala, being held this year at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel.
January 18, 2012
Paul Alivisatos, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and a UC Berkeley professor of nanotechnology, has won the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry for 2012.
December 14, 2011
It’s been quite a semester. Classwork and research took place along with actions to support our University's core mission and values, and to improve our campus’s operations. In local, state, and national settings, students, faculty, and staff joined to advocate passionately for investing in public education as a common good in a good society.
December 14, 2011
Surveying with concern and alarm the continuing erosion in the landscape of higher education in California and beyond, the deans of the graduate and professional schools at Berkeley got together and concluded that something had to be done.
December 14, 2011
Astronomers at Berkeley have discovered the largest black holes to date — two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume anything, even light, within a region five times the size of our solar system.
December 14, 2011
Eve Ekman, a doctoral candidate in social welfare, has been exploring the harsh realities of emotional exhaustion in healthcare workers, which can have devastating consequences for their patients and hospitals as well as the workers themselves.
December 14, 2011
A Berkeley-trained engineer, Arun Majumdar Ph.D. '89, is President Barack Obama's nominee to serve as U.S. Under Secretary of Energy.
December 14, 2011
Nap Hosang M.P.H. ’85, M.B.A. ’95 The School of Public Health received final approval December 6 to launch the Berkeley campus’s first-ever online degree program, which it calls the On-Campus/Online Professional M.P.H. Degree Program. Beginning Spring 2012, students will be able to earn a master of public health (M.P.H.)…
December 14, 2011
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.
December 14, 2011
Operational Excellence is a multi-project effort by UC Berkeley to improve operations and save money on the administrative expenditures, so that more of the budget can be devoted to teaching and research. Dean Szeri has been the faculty head of this effort since last January. As he wears two administrative hats, it's perhaps worthwhile to consider that OE (as Operational Excellence is known) may provide an interesting area to consider in your thesis or dissertation research.
December 1, 2011
At UC Berkeley, Lori Glenwinkle examines how animal genomes evolve in response to environmental changes. An essential fellowships gives her the intellectual freedom to explore these new paths.
December 1, 2011
Jamie Apgar says he owes his "whole presence at Berkeley" to the Ausfahl Family Fellowship Fund. It enabled the Baltimore native to return to his studies, after performing professionally following his 2009 graduation from Yale.
November 21, 2011
Recent campus events highlight the urgency of engaging the issues of our day with intellectual rigor and conducting ourselves in ways that enable dialogue and debate without fracturing the community of which we are all part.
November 21, 2011
Berkeley was not in its accustomed position at the cutting edge of the vanguard. Quietly conceived by Canadian and Spanish activists, the Occupy movement against economic and social inequality was born as protests in Kuala Lumpur in July before it reached Wall Street in New York and several sites in San Francisco in September, and city landmarks in Oakland and San Jose in the Bay Area and many locations worldwide in October.
November 21, 2011
New funding opportunities include DOE Carlsbad Field Office Fellowship Programs, Dorothea Lange Fellowship, Department of Defense SMART Scholarship, Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program and more.