June 23, 2011
The unselfish help of mentors was recently recognized by the Graduate Division, the Sarlo Foundation, and the Graduate Assembly, in a warm gathering and in two friendly ambush-style presentations.
June 23, 2011
Sending in all those applications can pay off, and sometimes we hear about it. Case in point: Ph.D. student Vasundhara Sirnate was selected for a $30,000 award. She tells us how that happened.
June 23, 2011
The Graduate Division administers a need-based grant for graduate students (single, married, or registered domestic partners) living with dependent children; if funding permits, awards of up to $8,000 per year ($4,000 per academic term) will be made to eligible applicants. The deadline for 2011-12 grants is June 30, 2011. Interested…
June 10, 2011
Physically one of the smallest people on campus, Robert Reich has a vast list of accomplishments, a huge national reputation, and an ego to which none of that particularly matters.
May 15, 2011
The Graduate Division has just produced an updated summary of its activities and accomplishments, with a dozen-year-long perspective.
May 15, 2011
In absentia registration may save you money.
May 15, 2011
Outstanding GSIs, and mentors of GSIs, were honored in droves over the past few weeks. We’ll be saying more, in detail and with pictures, in the near future, but meanwhile here are the categories — at least those which fall under the umbrella of the Graduate Division (and, in one case, its partner, the Graduate Assembly).
May 15, 2011
Snapshots from Cal Day 2011.
May 15, 2011
The Cal Alumni Association had a big party --- its annual Charter Gala --- April 9 at San Francisco’s City Hall to celebrate the university’s birthday and to physically present the association’s 2011 alumni awards (publicly announced back in December 2010).
May 15, 2011
The Berkeley campus's most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in that endeavor. This year, the recipients were
Robin Einhorn of professor of history, Phillip Geissler associate professor of chemistry (whose 2000 Ph.D. is from Berkeley), and
Kent Puckett, associate professor of English.
May 15, 2011
Say goodbye to the"Classic" MELVYL library catalog; New library mobile website; Equitrac copy cards expire on June 30, 2011
May 12, 2011
Bringing an engineer’s expertise to the diagnosis and cure of health problems, the Taiwanese Ph.D. student chose UC Berkeley, which has a joint program in bioengineering with UCSF Medical School, to launch a career that will seamlessly combine his interests in biology and engineering.
May 9, 2011
Have you ever wondered how the course evaluations you fill out at the end of every semester are used to improve teaching and learning on campus? If you are a current UC Berkeley student, this is your chance to share your opinion on the subject!
April 27, 2011
Graduate Dean Andrew Szeri discusses why and how our academic enterprise matters to the state of California, the U.S., everywhere.
April 20, 2011
An ARCS Foundation Scholar, Brian is combining his Ph.D. studies in engineering with a master’s program through the Goldman School of Public Policy.
April 13, 2011
In the half century since the Corps was founded, UC Berkeley has supplied more volunteers than any other university in the U.S. — over 3,400 in more than 120 countries.
April 12, 2011
For many graduate students, traveling to conduct research is among the most rewarding aspects of their studies. But it can be anxiety-producing to fund the costs of travel.
April 12, 2011
A way for a slice of you to help improve graduate education at Berkeley Your email may contain an invitation from Graduate Dean Andrew J. Szeri to participate in a survey about your graduate program this year. Or it might not; all academic departments are being covered, by sending it…
April 12, 2011
Moffitt Library and Gardner (main) Stacks will be extending 24-Hour Study to include RRR Week and Finals Week this semester. For spring semester 2011, Moffitt Library and Gardner (main) Stacks will be open continuously from Sunday, May 1 at 1 p.m. through Friday, May 13 at 7 p.m.
April 12, 2011
Remarkable narratives of survival, acceptance, and recovery are starting to emerge from witnesses to the March 11 disaster in Japan.