Graduate Fellowships
- A wide menu of possibilities to help fund your graduate education
Calendar
- Upcoming events and workshops
Listed chronologically by deadline date.
Graduate Division summary of fellowships and awards for 2007-2008
Resources provided by the Graduate Services: Fellowships office
The Newman Fellowship is awarded to substantially visually impaired graduate students.
Basic aspects of this fellowship are these:
Completed application and supporting documents should be submitted to the Graduate Services: Fellowships Office, 318 Sproul Hall #5900, Berkeley, CA 94720-5900. Applications are available online (PDF). The deadline for applying is Friday, April 18, 2008. Applicants will be notified of decisions by mail in late May or June 2008.
This fellowship is open to senior and graduate students in any field of study at Berkeley, as well as students who hold a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, who wish to pursue studies at King’s College in Cambridge. Students who receive the fellowship must provide evidence that they will attend Kings College before leaving in the fall. Students must apply separately to Kings College for admission. This is not a campus exchange program. Each winner will receive a stipend in the amount of $30,000 for the academic year 2008-2009. The application deadline is April 30, 2008. For more information, contact Nancy Paniagua in the Graduate Services: Fellowships office by email (orignal@berkeley.edu) or phone (642-0672).
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Graduate Division Calendar
Campus Events Calendar
Denotes Graduate Division sponsored event
MARCH 11 (Tuesday)
Workshop: “Transgender Issues in Higher Education”
Noon to 1 p.m., lounge of the Gender Equity Resource Center, 202 Cesar Chavez Student Center, presenter to be announced. A “Second Tuesday” workshop for the LGBTQ community and friends at Cal. Learn about:
Save April 8 and May 13 for more “Second Tuesday” noon-hour events for UC Berkeley LGBT staff and faculty.
March 12 (Wednesday)
Panel Discussion — Academic Lives: Laboratory Sciences, Engineering, and Professional Schools
4 to 6 p.m., Women’s Faculty Club
Issues to be addressed include juggling family, personal, and professional obligations, making a difference locally and in the larger profession; making career choices; finding support, personal and professional. Free and open to the campus community. Sponsored by the Association of Academic Women and the Women’s Faculty Club. More information is available by calling 642-4175.
Left to Right: Fiona Doyle, Cathy Koshland, and Paola Timiras
Peggy Pritchard
MARCH 12 (Wednesday)
Seminar: “Mental Toughness: Strategies for Enhancing Resilience”
4:30 p.m., 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. Reception and book-signing to follow. Peggy Pritchard, editor of Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor. Graduate school is one of the most mentally challenging experiences we will face. Interacting with advisors, taking prelims and quals, or getting your latest paper rejected all take their toll on the graduate student psyche. How you respond to these stressors can make or break you academic career. In her interactive seminar (using iClicker technology), Peggy Pritchard will outline her strategies for keeping your head in the game. Sponsored by Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, the Julia Morgan Engineering Program, and Graduate Women of Engineering.
MARCH 14 (Friday)
Nomination deadline for Outstanding GSI Awards 2007-2008
The GSI Teaching and Resource Center welcomes nominations from departments for the 2007-2008 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards. Each department may nominate one GSI for every ten GSIs appointed during the academic year. Guidelines, forms for submitting nominations, and lists of past Outstanding GSI Award recipients can be found online.
MARCH 14 (Friday)
Application deadline for four positions in the Public Policy and International Affairs Joint Summer Institute at the Goldman School of Public Policy
The 2008 program runs from June 15 through August 2. The four positions are:
More information on each position and on the PPIA Junior Summer Institute is available online.
MARCH 14 (Friday)
Annual Berkeley Journal of Sociology Conference
Topic: Violence
Full day of programs; registration begins at 9 a.m. in 315 Wheeler Hall (the Maude Fife Room), where most of the events will take place. A variety of panels will showcase graduate students, faculty, and community activists. The keynote panel — “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence” — will bring together faculty from an array of social science departments on campus, including Anthropology, City and Regional Planning, Geography, and Sociology. Times and topics for the day are available online. Conference sponsors are the Department of Sociology, the Graduate Assembly, and the Center for Race and Gender.
MARCH 17 through 21 (Monday through Friday)
Disability Awareness Week
Celebrating the contributions of people with disabilities thoughout the world.
Events each day for students, staff, and faculty.
Specifically for grad students and people who work with them:
March 18 (Tuesday), 4 to 7 p.m., 2040 Valley Life Sciences,
Managing Disability in Graduate School
How do graduate students with disabilities get accommodations and services they need in school?
See the Berkeleyan story with details of all Disability Week events.
MARCH 18 (Tuesday)
Workshop on Teaching: Guiding the Work of Non-native Writers of English
Noon to 1:30 p.m., 331 Sproul Hall. Sponsored by the Graduate Division’s GSI Teaching and Resource Center.
MARCH 18 (Tuesday)
All-UC Alumni Career Conference: “Career Moves 2008”
Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco. An extraordinary one-day event to help you focus on your career, sharpen your strategy, discover new opportunities, network, meet hiring employers, and make the right next move. More information available online.
MARCH 24 -28 (Monday - Friday)
Spring Recess
MARCH 28 (Friday)
Cesar Chavez Holiday
APRIL 5 (Saturday)
Charter Gala
Fort Mason, San Francisco. The California Alumni Association will celebrate the chartering of the University of California and present awards to outstanding alumni. The 2008 Alumnus of the Year is civil rights advocate and U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson, a 1955 political science graduate who earned his J.D. in 1958 at Boalt Hall law school Three alumni will be honored with Excellence in Achievement Awards: Caroline Tanner, Ph.D. '98, one of the most prominent researchers studying Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders; Lee Merriam Talbot '52, M.A. '63, Ph.D. '63, a world-renowned environmentalist; and Lawrence E. Crooks '71, M.S. '73, Ph.D. '78, a contributor to the development of MRI technology (who is also director of the Radiologic Imaging Laboratory at UCSF). In addition, the 2008 Mark Bingham Award for excellence in achievement by a young alum will go to Anthony M. Smith '92, M.A. '93, Ph.D. '02, the San Francisco Unified School District’s deputy superintendent for instruction, innovation and social justice. More information is available on the alumni association’s website.
Annabel Patterson
APRIL 8, 9, and 10 (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
“Pandora’s Boxes, or How We Store Our Values”
Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor of English Emeritus, Yale University. With commentary by Lorna Hutson, Geoffrey Nunberg, and J.B. Schneewind. 4:10 p.m., Toll Room, Alumni House (just east of Haas Pavilion).
Tuesday, April 8 — Lecture I: “How We Do Things with Abstract Nouns: Bacon, Locke, Williams”
Wednesday, April 9 — Lecture II: “American Keywords: Marriage, Success, and Democracy”
Thursday, April 10 — Seminar and Discussion with Commentators
The lectures and seminar are free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Information about these and other lectures is available online.
APRIL 12 (Saturday)
Cal Day
APRIL 12 (Saturday)
Library Book Sales
As part of its observance of Cal Day, the Library will hold two book sales. The Library Bookstore, with its usual stock of mostly interesting and sometimes very odd books at discount prices, will be open in Room 132 Doe Library between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. During that same span, the Bookstore Annex in 303 Doe will also be open, with thousands of books for $1 each lining the walls, the table, and maybe even the chairs. A great, and inexpensive, way to fill in those empty spaces in your bookshelves.
APRIL 14 (Thursday)
“Bears Breaking Boundaries” competition main deadline
Note: some aspects of the competition have earlier deadlines; check details online. For the third year in a row, Big Ideas @ Berkeley and the ASUC are teaming up with research centers and institutes across campus to stimulate new student ideas — and use more than $140,000 in prize money to reward the best.
APRIL 17 (Tuesday)
Workshop on Teaching: Teaching and the Academic Job Market
Noon to 1:30 p.m., 370 Dwinelle Hall
Sponsored by the Graduate Division’s GSI Teaching and Resource Center.
Bart D. Ehrman
APRIL 17 (Thursday)
Foerster Lecture on the Immortality of the Soul
“God’s Problem and Human Solutions: How the Bible Explains Suffering”
Bart D. Ehrman, Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 4:10 p.m., main auditorium, Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue. The lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Information about these and other lectures is available online. Presented by the Academic Senate’s Graduate Council and the Graduate Division.
APRIL 26 (Saturday)
Graduate Social Club Sunset Bay Cruise
Boarding begins at 6:30 p.m. from Pier 43.5, departure’s promptly at 7, sun’s due to set around 7:30. On the boat, there’ll be beer and wine (plus a cash bar for cocktails), plenty of appetizers and dessert, with ample deck space for mingling, talking, eating, and checking out the view. Inside a DJ will be blasting great music. Tickets, which are limited, are available online, until they sell out ($30 for one, $50 for two).
Chikashi Toyoshima
APRIL 30 and MAY 1 (Wednesday, and Thursday)
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
Chikashi Toyoshima, Professor of Supramolecular Structure, University of Tokyo. 4:10 p.m., International House auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue.
Wednesday, April 30 — Lecture I: “Calcium, Proteins, Energy, and Life”
Thursday, May 1 — Lecture II: “A Molecular Machine at Work: The Case of the Calcium Pump Protein”
The lectures are free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Information about these and other lectures is available online.
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