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NOTE: Graduate Division offices will be closed from 3 p.m. November 25, 2009 through November 27, 2009. We will be open for business as usual on Monday, November 30, 2009.
November 24, 2009
UC Berkeley is at or near the top in recent rankings of universities in the U.S. and the world
The academic reputation of this campus continues to gleam among its counterparts in this country and around the globe, according to recent independent assessments.
June 11, 2009
A new fund will support LGBT-related grad student research
Visionary faculty and staff members launch an initiative to help Berkeley students make an impact within the academy and in the outer world. The fund is named for pioneering musicologist Philip Brett, who taught at Berkeley and two other UC campuses. Momentum for the endowment came from, among others, renowned keyboard artist Davitt Moroney Ph.D., '80, a former student of Brett's who also joined the Berkeley music faculty, and has now sparked this stimulus to scholarship of a kind that barely existed before Philip Brett's groundbreaking work just three decades ago.
June 2, 2009
Grad students recommend more transparent internet privacy policies
Three students in the School of Information, Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick, and Ashkan Soltani, spent a year analyzing data collection and sharing practices of the 50 most-visited sites on the Web, and what they found doesn't square with what the sites claim are their policies. Their new report calls for significant changes, including increased user choice and more readable privacy statements.
May 7, 2009
Mentoring is its own reward ... but plaques are nice, too
The Grad Division and the Graduate Assembly team up to honor more than 270 GSIs and 10 of the faculty who guide them (two of the latter in special "ambush' presentations).
April 24, 2009
Dramatic rise in minority science Ph.D.s detailed in new report
At most universities participating in the AGEP program, the number of underrepresented minority Ph.D. recipients in science and engineering has increased by as much as 50 percent. Berkeley Edge, UC Berkeley's AGEP program, was the top producer of Ph.D.s among 79 participating U.S. universities.
March 13, 2009
A winning woman is back on 'Jeopardy' — Cal's Larissa Kelly hopes to top 14 other champs
Larissa Kelly, the diminutive UC Berkeley graduate student in history who swept to game show triumph last spring, has returned to compete again. And so far she's up to her previous standard, winning decisively in her first round of the quiz show "Jeopardy!"'s tournament of champions.
March 12, 2009
Post-stem-cell-ban era begins at Berkeley
MCB professor Ellen Robey (Berkeley Ph.D. '86), two of her postdocs, and a grad student are in Nature's coverage of their lab as the post-stem-cell ban era begins.
May 29, 2008
Resources for Graduate Students with Disabilities
The campus offers many different resources for graduate students with disabilities. The Disabled Students Program at (510) 642-0518 serves graduate students with disabilities (who complete the process for establishing eligibility) by authorizing academic accommodations. Disabled Access Services at (510) 643-6473 or 643-6456 can usually assist with accommodations to extra-curricular events. Most physical access issues are addressed in the Campus Access Guide. Finally, problems with accommodations may be reported to the campus Disability Resolution Officer at (510) 642-2795.
April 30, 2008
Rewarding mentors, the academy’s unsung secret weapon
Five faculty members, accompanied by colleagues and students who nominated them and friends and fans, were given special awards for mentoring grad students, an activity which often leads to key intellectual breakthroughs and providing the motivation to persevere despite daunting obstacles. Two different awards were presented, the Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award, presented by the Graduate Division and the Academic Senate’s Graduate Council, and the Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award (FMA), presented by the Graduate Assembly. (See the winners, and others, in a short slide show.)
April 8, 2008
Mentoring Awards Announcement
Announcing the 2nd annual Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards, and the Graduate Assembly’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Awards.
April 4, 2008
Important Notice to Plaintiffs in the Kashmiri vs. The Regents Class Action Lawsuit
Students who were identified as members of the plaintiff class in the Kashmiri vs. The Regents of the University of California class action lawsuit should have received a notice regarding the fee overcharge judgment. That notice can be viewed/printed by clicking here (PDF). Office of the Registrar
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Last Updated: November 24, 2009 5:05 PM
