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a group of students received advice at Berkeley's Career Center

October 3, 2017

Fall Career Connections Series

Featuring casual networking events where alumni share their path from Cal to career with interested students, and offer advice to those who hope to follow in their footsteps.
Kim Fong stands looking over Grand Canyon

October 3, 2017

A Summer in the “Swamp”

Kim Fong, graduate student in the School of Information, shares her cross-country road trip from Berkeley to a technology policy summer internship in Washington, DC.
Kevin Weaver poses with Graduate Division staff

September 28, 2017

One Block, Two Worlds

Kevin Weaver, studying at Berkeley Law, explores social justice issues in education and on the Berkeley streets.

September 28, 2017

John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow in Imaging — 10/20/2017

Harvard University is seeking applicants for a position as a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow (JHDSF). The position is for life and physical scientists with an interest in imaging to develop innovative imaging technologies, lead biological investigations using advanced imaging technologies, or both. The Fellow will…

September 25, 2017

Travis Bogard Artist in Residence Fellowship — 11/15/2017

With the establishment of the Travis Bogard Artist in Residence Program (AIR) in 2015, the Eugene O’Neill Foundation Board of Directors, through its Advisory Board, has realized a long-held goal. The AIR three-year pilot program at Tao House is designed to provide a working retreat for developing or established…

September 25, 2017

U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) Visiting Fellows Program — 10/25/2017

UC San Diego’s Center for U.S.–Mexican Studies (USMEX) at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) hosts the largest residential fellowship program in the U.S. for research on Mexico and U.S.–Mexico relations. Each year the program brings together top scholars from the social sciences, humanities and related fields to form a…

September 25, 2017

The Professor Rahamimoff Travel Grants Program for Young Scientists — 12/6/2017

The United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation Professor Rahamimoff Travel Grants Program is open to Ph.D. students doing research that requires facilities or expertise not available in their home countries. The program will have two calls annually, and each will support 10 trips. Grants are for $4,000 each. The trips will be only to…

September 25, 2017

East Asia Fellowship Program — 12/31/2017

The ARIAH East Asia Fellowship Program Each fellowship brings a scholar to one ARIAH institute (the “host institute”) for a two-month residence. During a subsequent one to two months, scholars can visit and conduct research at other ARIAH institutions and nonmember institutions. The host institute assists in planning the scholar’s…

September 25, 2017

Critical Language Scholarship Program — 11/15/2017

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. CLS is part of a wider government initiative to…

September 25, 2017

Center for Engaged Scholarship (CES) Dissertation Fellowships — 12/15/2017

The Center for Engaged Scholarship (CES) is accepting applications from Ph.D. students in the social sciences who have already completed all departmental and institutional requirements for the Ph.D. degree, including approval of the dissertation proposal. The only requirement not completed must be the writing and, where required, the defense of the dissertation. The…

September 25, 2017

George Bennett Fellowship in Writing — 11/30/2017

The purpose of the George Bennett Fellowship is to provide time and freedom from material considerations to a person seriously contemplating or pursuing a career as a writer. It provides for one academic year a stipend (currently $15,260), as well as housing and meals for the fellow and their…

September 25, 2017

Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship — 11/26/2017

Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) Fellowships support individuals with exceptional science and mathematics content knowledge who are committed to teaching high school in the United States.

September 21, 2017

Philip Brett Fund for LGBT Research

Philip Brett Fund for LGBT Research Each year, the Philip Brett LGBT Fellowship Fund makes an award to a UC Berkeley graduate student who is pursuing research related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer studies in any field or discipline. The Fund honors an eminent music scholar…

September 15, 2017

UC Berkeley/University Partnership Campus Benefits Program

The University Partnership Program (UPP) Campus Benefits Program allows UC Berkeley students to receive access to special perks and preferred pricing on services and merchandise for organizational and personal use through our campus-wide partners — Under Armour, Bank of the West, Peet’s Coffee, and Brita.
Graduate Admissions SLATE team

September 13, 2017

SLATE-ed for Improvement!

The Graduate Division is always working to improve the graduate student experience — including prospective students!

September 12, 2017

Visiting Scholar Talk: Steffen Moestrup — 9/18/2017

The Journalist as a Performative Persona Steffen Moestrup’s research critically investigates what we might term persona-driven journalism. He analyzes how journalistic personas are created and used across different types of media and how the interaction between old media and new media plays into such processes. Considering persona-driven journalism as performances,…