March 1, 2023
Meet our inaugural Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award recipients...
February 14, 2023
Meet our Teaching Consultants Noah Katznelson (she/her) I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Education. Through my research, I explore how societal ideologies shape educational policies and practices. In particular, my work brings attention to the ways neoliberal framings erase the deep cultural, historical, and political roots…
January 26, 2023
Dear Graduate Student Community, Welcome back! I hope you were able to find time to relax and enjoy the company of friends and loved ones during the break. It’s a new year with much to look forward to this semester! The ratification…
January 2, 2023
With the fall semester coming to a close, you might find yourself facing project deadlines, or you may be beginning to plan for the spring semester. These deadlines, tasks, and responsibilities can be overwhelming. Here at GradPro, we encourage you to take a step back and…
December 13, 2022
Thank you for taking the time to speak with us, Justin! Could you tell us how you heard about Grad Slam and what made you decide to participate in the competition? I first heard about Grad Slam through another graduate student in my program,…
December 13, 2022
Photo credit: Berkeley Public Service Center As graduate students, we often encounter fellowship and internship applications that ask us to describe our leadership skills and our engagements with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. For many graduate students, these skills are primarily developed through teaching experience.
December 12, 2022
Graduate school is a difficult period for many students, as they juggle personal, academic, professional, and financial responsibilities and as they prepare for future careers. But for the roughly 45,400 undocumented graduate students (also referred to as Undocugrads) enrolled in professional and academic master’s and doctoral programs throughout the…
November 18, 2022
GiGS mentor Andy Antuna, J.D. Law, and his mentee Spring Keosoupha, undergraduate majoring in Legal Studies Getting into Grad School (GiGS) was developed to encourage and prepare undergraduate UC Berkeley students to select, apply, and enroll in graduate school. By engaging key staff…
November 15, 2022
Each November, we commemorate Native American Heritage Month by acknowledging and recognizing the heritage and contributions (past, present and future) of Native and Indigenous people. However, the various ways in which our Native/Indigenous students impact Berkeley extend well beyond a particular month or day. These students’ multifaceted experiences not only help to inform their individual identities, but also help build a more culturally-responsive campus community.
October 24, 2022
Berkeley graduate students are known for their exceptional accomplishments after completing their degrees. However, our graduate students are also engaged in exciting activities throughout the year, all while pursuing their academic goals. In preparation for the fall semester, we asked some of our students about their experiences beyond the campus.
October 21, 2022
Griffin Brunk PhD candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Department Broadly speaking, I am an historian of slavery and coerced labor from Ratification to the modern prison system. In my patchwork past, I have been a teacher on Chicago’s southside, a private investigator, a paralegal at the…
September 30, 2022
About the Task Force At Berkeley, we believe that we cannot build an inclusive learning environment if it is not sensitive and responsive to the needs of our neurodivergent graduate students. This Task Force is our first step in that effort. Building on presentations from national experts at the cutting…
September 30, 2022
Dear Graduate Student Community, We are now in week 7 and I am still fueled by the smiling faces I saw at Grad-stravaganza in August. These opportunities to connect with you and see you in community with one another remind me why…
September 22, 2022
Q: Tell us about your experience as a graduate student at Berkeley. Have you encountered any challenges? If so, how were/are you able to push past them? Miguel: I’m a first-generation low-income Chicanx-identified genderqueer student, who used to be large-bodied and recently realized they are neurodivergent. My first…
September 19, 2022
Cal Performances, the world class performing arts presenter at Berkeley, strives to provide a welcoming and safe environment for all people with disabilities. Accommodations ranging from assistive listening devices to accessible seating and sign language interpretation are described on the accessibility page of Cal Performances website at…
September 19, 2022
Kicker: Hear from Ricardo Flores from the Career Center about job hunting with a disability Navigating grad school with a disability can be disheartening. Sometimes it seems like everything is designed to make things more difficult for you, or just without you in mind. Then, when…
September 2, 2022
Graduate students at Berkeley are fearless adventurers, pushing the boundaries of what we know about our world. Read more to learn what sparks the imaginations of our talented students and inspires their groundbreaking research, and how critical fellowship funding propels their success.
August 17, 2022
Dear Graduate Student Community, I wanted to extend a very warm welcome to our incoming cohort of graduate and professional students. We are so glad you chose Berkeley. I know many of you are busy attending your departmental orientations or our New Graduate Student Orientation happening virtually this…
August 12, 2022
Over 100 attendees stopped by to chat about Cal’s cutting-edge research with our friendly team of experts at the downtown Oakland street fair, First Fridays on August 5. Science at Cal featured graduate researcher Antonio Del Rio Flores…
August 12, 2022
With the Fall semester just around the corner, here at GradPro we want to let you know about the many resources specifically designed to support graduate students in their academic and professional development. In other words, if you are an incoming or a continuing graduate student—don’t worry, we’ve…