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.
November 21, 2011
In light of the competition, Roberto Hernández didn’t expect to take home a trophy from September’s News & Documentary Emmy ceremony in New York.
But win he did — for outstanding investigative journalism — along with his wife and fellow UC Berkeley grad student, Layda Negrete, and fellow makers of Presumed Guilty ("Presunto Culpable").
November 21, 2011
An important message from the Council of Deans Task Force on the Future of Public Universities.
November 21, 2011
You won't have to stand (or sit) in line! New this year: master's theses may now be filed electronically, too.
November 21, 2011
The ASUC Undergraduate/Graduate Mentorship Program (UGMP) provides an opportunity for graduate students to mentor undergraduate students considering the pursuit of an advanced academic degree. The graduate student will offer advice and answers to the undergraduate who is interested in gaining more knowledge about his/her academic field of interest, the graduate school process, or just about future academic endeavors.
November 21, 2011
Current exhibits; The Heyns and Rosberg reading rooms have reopened; New electronic resources; Time-saving reminders.
November 21, 2011
The Graduate Social Club’s newest offering will be its semi-annual Winter Wonderland party, beginning at 8 p.m. on December 16 at BEC's Bar on 2271 Shattuck Avenue. The GSC announcement says, “Once you’ve rocked all your finals, come to our classy event. Ladies, break out those cocktail dresses, and guys, remember to wear pants.
November 10, 2011
ARIT Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Turkey The American Research Institute in Turkey will offer ARIT fellowships for research in Turkey for the academic year 2012-2013. Grants for tenures up to one year will be considered; however, some preference is given to projects of shorter duration. ARIT…
October 20, 2011
The Tang Center, 2222 Bancroft Way, headquarters of UHS. As information about the recent mumps outbreak emerges, recommendations are being refined to maximize the impact of immunization measures. UC Berkeley students living in congregate settings (high density housing with shared eating areas and bathroom facilities such as campus residence…
October 20, 2011
UC researchers can easily record and submit presentations, share with fellow scholars. UCTVSeminars, is a new service that provides researchers with a simple, low-cost way to record and share their work with colleagues around the system through the website and its related YouTube and iTunes channels. With…
October 20, 2011
In June of 2010, the Doe Library and the Graduate Division opened a special place for graduate students who want to (or simply must) do some serious writing on their dissertations.
October 20, 2011
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"
October 20, 2011
I’m happy to convey the Graduate Division’s heartiest congratulations to Berkeley Professor of Physics Saul Perlmutter, who early this month shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the simultaneous discovery --- with two competitor-colleagues half a world away at the Australian National University --- of the accelerating expansion of the universe.
October 3, 2011
Are you interested in the latest energy-and-resources breakthroughs in science, engineering, policy, economics, and more? Then you might want to mark your calendar for what’s happening at Berkeley on the 20th and 21st of October. Arun Majumdar It’s the BERC 2011 Energy Symposium, the largest student-run…
September 21, 2011
Joe Duggan, 2007 (photo: Peg Skorpinski) The Graduate Division received the sad news of the death of our colleague and friend on October 2, 2016. Several memorial gatherings are planned by friends and colleagues. An updated tribute to his life is at https://grad.berkeley.edu/remembering-joe-duggans-life-as-teacher-scholar-dean-and-colleague/…
September 20, 2011
Last October Berkeley sealed an unprecedented partnership with Taiwan, setting the stage for an influx of cross-cultural resources in the humanities and social sciences. With this partnership, Berkeley becomes the first member of Taiwan’s Top University Strategic Alliance, a program created by the country’s Ministry of Education to increase the international exposure of top Taiwanese scholars and researchers.