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DROP.TOWN Art Show 2015!

Don’t miss the DROP.TOWN Art Show! A group of Berkeley undergrads, graduate students, and alumni are working to develop the art/music community at Cal by building bridges and providing more opportunities to network, share, and learn from each other. Visit their Facebook page for more details. [ART SHOW]…

Call for Submissions: 2016 Thinking Gender Conference — 11/20/2015

UCLA Center for the Study of Women announces THINKING GENDER 2016 26th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference Call for submissions: Spatial Awareness, Representation, and Gendered Spaces Thinking Gender 2016 invites submissions for individual papers, pre-constituted panels, posters, and—for the first time — films and interactive media on topics that focus on the…
Yu-Hui (Amy) Lin

Yu-Hui Lin is Celebrated as this Year’s Una Fellow

Yu-Hui (Amy) Lin, a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies was awarded this year's Una Fellowship. The Una fellowship is awarded each year to an outstanding woman graduate student studying history at Berkeley.

American Bar Foundation Fellowships — 12/1/2015

The American Bar Foundation (ABF) is dedicated to advancing justice through rigorous research on the law, legal practices, and the law’s impact on our society.  Located in Chicago, ABF is the nation’s leading research institute for the empirical study of law. The ABF sponsors fellowship programs for postdoctoral scholars, doctoral candidates,…

CSSC Dissertation Workshop Retreat Call for Applications — 11/20/2015

The UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Sexual Culture (CSSC), in conjunction with the Center for Race and Gender (CRG), announced a dissertation workshop retreat for candidates whose dissertation research focuses on interactions of sexuality, race, and gender. The two-day retreat will take place February 26-28, 2016, from Friday…
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Help Yourself Stay Well this Fall and Winter, Get a Flu Shot

Flu Shot Clinics 2015 Noon-5 pm, UHS Education Center, First Floor Friday, November 20 Friday, December 4 No appointment needed! Drop in to any flu shot clinic! Get directions. Preservative-free vaccine, protects against 4 different flu strains(quadravalent). Cost is $30; Free for students…

Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards Program — 11/15/2015

The Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards program (formerly the Women’s Opportunity Awards) has disbursed more than $30 million since 1972 to tens of thousands of women who have overcome poverty, domestic and sexual violence, divorce, the death of a spouse, or other life challenges. Through the Live Your Dream Awards, the Soroptimist…

Origins Project Postdoctoral Award Lectureship — 11/1/2015

Arizona State University is now accepting nominations to the annual Origins Project Postdoctoral Award Lectureship through November 1, 2015. This award, the largest of its kind in the world, is given annually to an outstanding junior scholar chosen from all countries, from any field of study relevant to The Origins Project,…
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Get SMART

Pairing summer research with mentoring opportunities is a smart combination with many benefits for participating graduate students.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program — 10/26/15

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing…

SAGE-IGERT Fellowship Program — 10/19/15

The SAGE-IGERT Fellowship Program supports technology developments that will enable the conservation generation, or storage of clean energy, as well as innovative approaches to the  evaluation of new technologies. The fellowship includes 2 years of funding, opportunities for international experiences, collaborative research environment, and partnerships with industry, government &…

Expanding Potential Workshop — 1/30/16

Synberc is encouraging new programs that enact positive change for diversity in STEM; one such program is their second annual Expanding Potential Workshop, to help the community establish a porfolio of Expanding Potential Seed Projects. The overall goal of this 2-day workshop is to bring participants together with program creators to…