Julia Menard-Warwick: Education, Ph.D. class of 2004
In February 1999 when I learned that I was being offered a Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, I had been a part-time English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor... more

Wilson Shearin: Classics, Ph.D. class of 2007
Few disciplines are as traditional, in every possible sense of the term, as the field of Classics. Indeed, it could be said that Classics – the intensive study of Greek and Roman... more

Cynthia Bruyns: Computer science graduate student
Computer science graduate student Cynthia Bruyns immersed herself in the complex world of machine-generated music and, from the user’s perspective, simplified it... more

Aubrey Gilbert: Berkeley neuroanatomy graduate student
For the inexperienced traveler, Aubrey Gilbert’s “whirlwind tour of your nervous system” blows past the hippocampus and cortex of the frontal lobes... more

Randall Irmis: Berkeley integrative biology Ph.D. student
Whatever else it ate, it may have consumed a whole school of thought about where and how dinosaurs evolved, say Berkeley integrative biology Ph.D. student Randall Irmis... more

Anna Naruta: Urban archaeologist
Berkeley’s neighbor to the south, Oakland, has a Chinatown that’s well known to city residents and others who go there to shop, dine, and renew cultural ties... more