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Berkeley Food Institute: Making a Global Difference in Our Food

What makes a fair and sustainable agricultural system? How does the manner is which our food is harvested impact our health? How will global climate change and a growing population affect our food system? These are just some of the issues that the Berkeley…

The Center for Teaching and Learning — 5/8/2015

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will be training a second cohort of graduate students in assessment and evaluation in higher education. To support academic units’ efforts in examining curricular needs and effectiveness, the CTL is soliciting programs in need of a graduate student to assist faculty…
Debra Behrens, Career Center

Workshop: Negotiation for Graduate Students — 4/29/15

This workshop introduces key elements of the negotiation process, the use of bargaining tools, how to leverage your strengths and successfully close the deal. Presented by Debra Behrens, Ph.D. Dr. Debra Behrens is a Ph.D. career counselor in the Career Center at UC Berkeley, where she works with graduate…

Residential Job Opportunity for Berkeley Graduate Students

Bowles Hall is being reopened as a mixed-gender Residential College on the model of Harvard and Yale. BHRC will be headed by a resident faculty Housemaster, and will also have a resident faculty Dean. Bowles Hall Residential College will also be served by three or four Graduate Residents from diverse…

Mikva Family Fellowship

J Street is offering a new opportunity called the Mikva Family Fellowship to graduates of the class of 2015. The Mikva Family Fellowship is a unique one-year opportunity for a highly-qualified recent college graduate to gain in-depth experience in political organizing, legislative and policy developments in Congress, community…

Training for Graduate Students and Postdocs Considering a Career in Biotech

The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), in partnership with the Keck Graduate Institute, is offering a two-week intensive management training course from July 12-24, 2015, at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, CA. This course will accommodate 40 graduate students and postdocs (international and domestic) who will receive free…

Workshop: Writing the Dissertation: Strategies and Pitfalls — 4/23/15

Writing the Dissertation: Strategies and Pitfalls Wednesday, April 23, 2015, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, 110 Sproul Hall  | Register Online This workshop focuses on the basic strategies of successfully writing a doctoral dissertation. It covers both strategies for organizing a large research project and for writing up…
T Geronimo Johnson

Alumnus Pens Book about Race

UC Berkeley students are at the heart of a novel about race and friendship in T. Geronimo's new book, "Welcome to Braggsville."