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March 12, 2021

Join Us For Our Graduate Mentoring Awards Ceremony — 4/2/21

We are thrilled to announce the 2021 recipients of the Graduate Division’s Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards and the Graduate Assembly’s Faculty Mentor Awards. Excellent faculty mentorship has a transformative impact on the well-being, academic success, and overall experience of graduate students, especially during these…
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March 12, 2021

CalFresh Eligibility Expansion for Graduate Students

The Master of Social Welfare and Juris Doctorate graduate degree programs were recently approved as CalFresh local student programs. Students in these programs still need to meet income guidelines, but no longer need to meet the hourly work requirement to be eligible for benefits. In the past few months, five…

March 12, 2021

Career Paths in Academia – Faculty Route — 3/22/21

The New York Academy of Sciences is hosting this webinar for graduate students, postdocs and young faculty. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, “the odds of any given Ph.D. getting a tenure-track job lie between 10 and 25 percent.” The low odds make getting a tenure-track position extremely…

March 12, 2021

Free UC Entrepreneurship Academy this Spring

April 5 through April 9, 2021 The UC Entrepreneurship Academy helps students, postdocs and faculty in all academic disciplines and fields gain the knowledge and networks needed to identify, develop and validate the commercial potential of your research or idea. UC Berkeley graduate students are encourage to register! During a…

March 12, 2021

2021 Berkeley Food Institute Food Justice Writing Contest

The concept of food justice argues that a history of structural gender and class inequities, and racially motivated policies have excluded marginalized communities from easy access to healthy foods, as described by Kirsten Cadieux and Rachel Slocum in “What does it mean to do food justice?” The COVID-19 pandemic has only…
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March 12, 2021

Watch Our First-Ever Virtual Grad Slam!

Watch seven graduate student semi-finalists compete to be the Berkeley Champion! We’re thrilled to announce that Adélaïde Bernard was awarded first place in the Berkeley Grad Slam for her presentation titled, “Hungry Unicorns: How Antennas in Your Neurons Control Appetite.” Second place went to Neta Gotlieb for “The Impact of Stress on Pregnancy.” Iemaan Rana was…

March 10, 2021

Ph.D. Student Kathy Shield’s Groundbreaking Research on Radioactivity

Ph.D. student Kathy Shields working in a campus lab.Photographer: Marilyn Sargent   “I kind of joke that nuclear engineering is like any other type of engineering plus radiation,” quipped Kathy Shield, a fifth-year PhD student in nuclear engineering. Planning on graduating this summer from…

February 16, 2021

UndocuGrads Wellness Circle

This circle aims to hold space for vulnerable and authentic connection around the challenges of being an Undocumented graduate student. This could include status-related stressors, personal relationships, financial stress, faculty/staff relationships, and the role of white supremacy culture within academia, among others. Grounding and self-care practices will be offered at…
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February 16, 2021

#ChooseBerkeley – Sean Darling-Hammond

Sean Darling-Hammond (he/his) Can you describe your program and what your research is about? “I am a 4th year PhD student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. I seek to expand belonging through my research and work in two domains: improving school climates and reducing…
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February 13, 2021

Join the Graduate Division as we #GoBigforGrads during this year’s Big Give! 

On Thursday, March 11, UC Berkeley’s annual 24-hour fundraising campaign kicks off and we could use your help. Big Give, designed to celebrate all that makes Berkeley special, provides thousands of alumni, current students, parents, faculty, staff, and friends an opportunity to show some school spirit and support Cal for years to come.
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February 12, 2021

COVID Reflections: Student Accommodations Past and Present

Dear Graduate Student Community, I write to you to balance my optimism regarding returning to in-person instruction this fall with my concern on behalf of our community about the alarming spike in COVID-19 cases nationally and on campus, including a more contagious variant. I hope our UC…

February 12, 2021

My thoughts after sitting on a college inclusivity panel

Just before winter break, I had the amazing opportunity to sit on the panel “More Than a Remote Possibility: Rethinking Inclusion in the College Classroom.” This was the first time I’d been asked to sit on a panel focused on my identity as a disabled student, and I realized during…

February 12, 2021

Undocumented Student Counseling Groups

The Undocumented Student Program is excited to offer two types of mental health groups for undocumented students this semester, both of which require a brief pre-group consult with the group facilitators. Undocu-Wellness in Action is a 6-week psycho-educational, skill building group for undocumented students experiencing mild to moderate…

February 12, 2021

UndocuBlack Spaces: A Community of Love

In collaboration with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and the Haitian Bridge Alliance, California State University, Dominguez Hills is happy to introduce UndocuBlack Spaces!  UndocuBlack Spaces will be a series of virtual gatherings for undocumented Black students across various academic levels to engage, learn, and build…

February 12, 2021

Renew or Return Library Books by February 17

Renew or return library books by February 17! After multiple due date extensions because of the pandemic, starting Feb. 1, 2021, all materials checked out from the UC Berkeley Library have regular due dates. Patrons with materials checked out before Sept. 1, 2020, are urged to renew or return them by…

February 11, 2021

2021 Berkeley SciComm Fellows

Congratulations to the 2021 Berkeley SciComm Fellows! Twelve emerging scientists have been selected as Berkeley SciComm Fellows! Science at Cal would like to welcome these 12 graduate students to the inaugural class of Berkeley SciComm Fellows. Theses individuals were selected for their passion for science communication, their…

February 11, 2021

Apply to LA Review of Books Summer Publishing Workshop – 3/19/21

Gain experience and make connections in the publishing industry. The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Graduate Division are pleased to invite applications from Berkeley Ph.D. students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to attend LARB’s summer publishing…

February 11, 2021

Extension of Normative Time and Non-Resident Supplemental Tuition Waiver Eligibility

In light of the unprecedented disruptions experienced by the campus community, the Graduate Division and Graduate Council have approved a blanket two-year extension of normative time (applied automatically) for doctoral students. The EVCP also has approved a four-semester extension of eligibility for non-residential supplemental tuition (NRST) waivers. Extension of Normative…
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February 11, 2021

Chemistry Grad Students Organize Virtual Beer Tasting Event for Frothy Fun 

A Sierra Nevada representative describes the brews during the tasting. The Chemistry Graduate Life Committee was stuck with a conundrum when the university transitioned to remote instruction last March. How can a group of chemistry graduate students recreate the liveliness and camaraderie of in-person social events during a…