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December 13, 2022

Public Service Opportunities for Graduate Students

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.
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December 12, 2022

Bringing Visibility to Undocugrads: Undocumented Graduate Students

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…
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November 15, 2022

Native/Indigenous graduate students help build a more culturally-responsive campus

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.
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October 24, 2022

Berkeley Ph.D.’s in the field: Presenting research in Scotland

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.
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October 21, 2022

Introducing Our Graduate Writing Consultants

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…
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September 30, 2022

Neurodiversity Task Force

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…
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September 30, 2022

Supporting an inclusive learning environment

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

Staying Connected: Latinx students celebrate their heritage through community

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…
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September 19, 2022

Disabled Students are always welcome at Cal Performances

  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…
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September 19, 2022

Questions Answered for Disabled Students about Job Hunting

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…
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September 2, 2022

Fellowships Support Graduate Student Success

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.
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August 17, 2022

Kicking off a new academic year

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…
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August 12, 2022

STEM Grad Spotlighted at Oakland First Fridays

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…
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August 11, 2022

What The Tech?!?

Start your semester off right by getting connected to the tech resources you need, including campus Wi-Fi, free software, device lending, campus printing, digital security,…
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August 1, 2022

Student Adobe License Access Change

All students (including student employees) who wish to receive an Adobe Creative Cloud license must submit a request. Adobe licenses are available at no cost. The request form became available on August 1, 2022. Pre-existing adobe licenses expired on August 14, 2022. Spring will require a new request.

July 25, 2022

Spanish Speaking Grads Bring Labs to Life

Science at Cal is thrilled to announce the premiere of our six-part Spanish-language video series Un Vistazo al Laboratorio (A look into the Lab). Three of the 6 videos feature graduate students, including Ixchel González-Ramírez and Kirsten…
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July 25, 2022

Meet New Graduate Division Staff: Ken Mahru and Ksenia Sidorenko

Ken Mahru, Director of Graduate Student Funding After a long vacancy in the role, we are thrilled to announce Ken Mahru as our new Director of Student Funding; his responsibilities include the oversight of the Fellowships and Appointments units. Ken worked in…