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January 18, 2013

Become a more productive writer in 2013

Do you have writing goals for your thesis or dissertation in the new year? Have you resolved to be a more productive writer in 2013? Join, for free, a community of writers sharing advice and strategies twice a month via email.

January 17, 2013

University of California Human Rights Fellowship — 2/21/2013

The Human Rights Center is holding its annual competition for student fellowships in partnership with organizations working on human rights issues. Registered students at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union are eligible, with priority given to graduate and returning students. 

January 3, 2013

Interested in being a White House Fellow? Apply by January 15.

President Obama meets with White House Fellows in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing near the Oval Office. One year can change your life. In that time, White House Fellows typically are full-time, paid assistants to senior White House staff, the Vice President, Cabinet secretaries, and other…
Chateaubriand

December 14, 2012

Chateaubriand Science Fellowship — 2/1/2013

This fellowship program is designed for doctoral students enrolled in an American university who wish to achieve part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory for a period of four to ten months.

December 14, 2012

MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program

Berkeley has its first crop of graduate and undergraduate students in the new the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, which helps financially disadvantaged students from Sub-Saharan Africa. Meet the first three grad students, who hail from Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda.
Center for Latin American Studies

December 14, 2012

Tinker Field Research Grants — 2/18/2013

Tinker Field Research Grants fund airfare to Latin America for pre-dissertation research and are available to UC Berkeley graduate students from all disciplines.

December 14, 2012

Switzer Environmental Fellowship — 1/10/2013

The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation specifically seeks innovators and problem-solvers who have the ability, determination, and integrity to become environmental leaders in the 21st century.
Andrew Szeri

December 14, 2012

A Graduate Division report card, graded by you

We can always count on you to be very frank and thoughtful. We were on tenterhooks waiting for your survey answers to arrive and be compiled, and let out a big sigh of relief when we saw the results.
dirks and birgeneau

December 13, 2012

2012 at Berkeley: a quick look back

A year with leaping lizards and tailed robots, a $60-million-dollar institute for Berkeley, a theory proven 40 years later, a crucial election, and a transition at the very top of the campus food chain.
Arts Research Center sign

November 20, 2012

ARC Fellows Program grants — 12/7/2012

ARC Fellows are self-nominated interdisciplinary pairs of faculty and grad students pursuing semester-long collaborative projects of their own design.