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June 14, 2016

Berkeley Crowdfunding Wants You to Act by 9/30/2016

The new academic year brings exciting, new ideas from our students, faculty, and staff — and the opportunity for you to help turn their ideas into impactful reality. Crowdfund.berkeley.edu is your source for exploring and supporting a fresh crop of projects conceived by the Berkeley community. Here are…

May 27, 2016

The Graduate Assembly is Hiring!

The Graduate Assembly, UC Berkeley’s graduate student government, is hiring! We are currently seeking applications for Project Directors and the Project Liaison; other openings will be available later in the summer. Project Directors work in specific graduate student communities; the Project Liaison is responsible for publicizing the work of the Project…

May 22, 2016

Delta Science Fellows Program — 9/23/2016

The Delta Science Fellows Program brings together graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with Bay-Delta agency scientists and senior research mentors to collaborate on data analysis and research projects applicable to the California Bay-Delta system. This fellowship is a partnership with the Delta Stewardship…
Ausfahl Family

May 17, 2016

The Ausfahl Family Gives Back

Bill Ausfahl established the Ausfahl Chair in Philosophy, which provides a stable, predictable source of funding for a professor to apply to research and to supporting top graduate students.
D lab

May 16, 2016

Spotlight on D-Lab

Now that the rush of finishing coursework and papers for Spring 2016 is over, it’s time to think about summer. Those of you around Berkeley in the coming months may want to check out D-Lab.

May 16, 2016

UCBe: Well

May 2016 marks the first National Mental Health Awareness Month, mental health organizations nationwide use this month to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and advocate for better resources for mental illness.
Fiona M. Doyle

May 16, 2016

May Transitions

At whenever stage you are in your academic or professional career, now is a good time for reflecting, planning, and balancing!

May 16, 2016

UC Berkeley Wins Future of Transportation Student Competition

A natural gas and electricity model proposed by students at UC Berkeley has been chosen as the winner of the Fuels Institute’s 2016 Future of Transportation Case Competition at the Institute’s annual meeting in San Francisco. The Fuels Institute’s Case Competition asked each team to create an ideal…

May 16, 2016

UC Smoke and Tobacco Free Student Fellowships — 5/25/2016

In support of the University of California’s commitment to a smoke and tobacco free UC and its critical role in developing research, public health and policy solutions for this rapidly evolving landscape, the UC Systemwide Smoke and Tobacco Free Task force is soliciting applications for four fellowships of $12,000…

May 13, 2016

Spring Lecture Video and Audio Offerings Are Sure to Delight

The spring 2016 Berkeley Graduate Lectures series were quite a thought-provoking collection — including a peek into the history of gold and wine in the early days of California, how to best measure and communicate climate change, recent studies of neurology and the brain, how we view animals as selves,…

May 13, 2016

Early Music Film Festival — 5/26 – 6/15/2016

Celebrate the Baroque! BAM/PFA partners with the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, a biannual showcase of early music, to present films related to Baroque music and host two concerts, Seventeenth-Century Italian Motets with Trombones performed by ¡Sacabuche! and a free concert by the Junior Recorder Society and Barbary Coast Recorder…
Faculty winners of the Distinguished Mentor Awards

May 12, 2016

Faculty Recognized by Mentorship Awards

On April 13, 2016, five faculty members were honored with the Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award and Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award.

May 12, 2016

IEEE Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA) — 7/1/2016

With the advent of cloud-based systems, cloud operators have been aiming at reliable, secured, privacy-preserving and cost-efficient cloud design and management. The fifth annual International Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA) focuses at the intersection of scientists, researchers, practitioners and students from diverse domains in Cloud computing research. The workshop aims…

May 11, 2016

Hosei International Fund Foreign Scholars Fellowship — 6/3/2016

Hosei University, a private institution in Tokyo, Japan, invites young scholars from abroad who are enrolled in a doctoral degree program or already have a doctorate to apply to the Hosei International Fund Fellowship Program to carry out non-degree research programs at Hosei under the…