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 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…
August 11, 2022
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,…
August 1, 2022
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
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…
July 25, 2022
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…
June 7, 2022
Berkeley Mastercard Scholar Vivian Omondi is someone who practices the act of being the change she wishes to see in the world. With guidance from UC Berkeley alumni along the way, she has chartered a path to her own success.
May 17, 2022
You did it! Another academic year has come to a close and, as I have said many times in past messages, I and all of us in the Graduate Division applaud your resilience and enthusiastic spirit! As the world around us struggles with so many crises –
May 13, 2022
Photo by Lala Azizli on Unsplash Navigating UC Berkeley as a graduate student can be difficult—and at times, it can feel like you are in a never-ending institutional labyrinth. This journey can be particularly difficult for underrepresented graduate students, including those who are undocumented, first-generation…
May 6, 2022
Growing up Justin Lee wanted to be an astronomer. This third-year PhD student from the Bay Area is studying Metabolic Biology, Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology. Not quite astronomy.
April 28, 2022
Hari credits the Office of Graduate Diversity’s Getting into Graduate School (GiGS) program in helping map the path toward his acceptance into Vanderbilt’s Ph.D. program.