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graduate division dean speaking with a graduate student

May 16, 2024

Congratulations – you made it!

Dear Graduate Student Community, What a year it has been!  As I write this, commencement ceremonies are happening all over campus. It is always a moving time for me to see many of you celebrate how much you have accomplished. This is truly a…

May 16, 2024

2024 Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award Recipients

Launched in 2022, The UC Berkeley Leadership in Graduate Diversity Awards aims to shed light on and award graduate students who have demonstrated stellar contributions to advancing the graduate and professional underrepresented minority (URM) student community.
student reading outside of a cafe

May 15, 2024

Essential Summer Reading for Graduate Students

For many graduate students, the summer months are an important time for self-directed reading and other tasks that have taken a backseat over the fall and spring semesters. Regardless of your stage in your graduate program, consider adding one or two books to your summer reading list this year that will help advance your professional development goals.

May 10, 2024

Finding a Place to Live

Email sent to students on May 10, 2024: Choosing where to live during your time at UC Berkeley is one of the most important and time-sensitive decisions for graduate school preparation. If you haven't secured housing yet, we're here to help you find the best option.
Graduate Mentoring Awards trophies on a table

May 9, 2024

2024 Graduate Mentoring Awards

Mentorship is a vital tool for many students at UC Berkeley, often offering transformative effects on the academic success, well-being, and overall student experience.

May 2, 2024

Apply for the Future of Higher Education Postdoc Program

The UC Berkeley Future of Higher Education (FHE) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program seeks applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship program from scholars in any discipline with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley who have interest in a career in higher education administration. This postdoctoral fellowship is reserved for…
top of sather gate against the sun

April 30, 2024

Apply to be a Graduate Diversity & Community Fellow in the Graduate Division

Graduate Diversity & Community Fellowship Diversity and Community Fellows advance and implement the diversity and inclusion goals of Office for Graduate Diversity and the Graduate Division. Critical components of this work include but are not limited to, supporting an inclusive graduate community and enhancing the cultural, academic, and professional experience…
Winner of 2024 Grad Slam, Victoria Chevee

April 16, 2024

Victoria Chevee is Berkeley’s 2024 Grad Slam Champion!

We wish to thank our distinguished panel of judges, Fiona Doyle, Wendy Tokuda, and Eric Stern, as well as the many audience members who weighed in on the People’s Choice Award. We look forward to next year’s competition! Interested in participating next year?…

April 10, 2024

2024 Grad Slam

Watch the 2024 Grad Slam: 2024 Semi-finalists: Victoria Chevee, Molecular and Cell Biology (1st Place Winner) A Bacterium’s Journey: From Guts to Brain As the Campus Grad Slam Champion, Victoria Chevee will now move on to compete against the winners from the nine other UC campuses on May 3, 2024…

April 5, 2024

Public Health Changemaker: Q&A with Forbes 30 Under 30, Iemaan Rana

Iemaan Rana, a Public Health Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, is one of this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Achievement for Science recipients. Iemaan is the first person ever to simultaneously pursue an M.D. (at the University of Illinois) and Ph.D. at two different institutions, and her research focuses on carcinogenic exposures.

April 2, 2024

Office for Graduate Diversity Hosts Annual Weekend Visit

On March 16 and 17, 136 admitted graduate students visited UC Berkeley’s campus as a part of the University’s Diversity Days. The Diversity Days experience is hosted by the Office for Graduate Diversity and reserved for first-generation and low-income admits as well as admits who’ve graduated from an HBCU, TCU, or HSI.
student first day on campus walking under sather gate.

March 24, 2024

Data Science for Social Justice Workshop

How to Apply Applications for DSSJ 2024 are closed. “Knowing that lifting up our own communities is what motivates us as diverse intellectuals and scholars, we centered the Workshop not just on data science, but what one can do with the data science to bring about justice or inadvertently cause…
rendering of exterior of new graduate housing community.

March 12, 2024

Apply for Fall 2024 New Graduate Student Housing

We are pleased to announce the grand opening in fall 2024 of xučyun ruwway, a new community-oriented housing with fully furnished units. Applications are now open through the Cal Housing portal!