Mentoring has been much on my mind recently.
Graduate Women in Engineering, a student-led group I have followed closely for a number of years, hosted one of their events on March 12, and I was invited to introduce author Peggy Pritchard, who gave a lecture based on her new book Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor. Ms. Pritchard spoke about ways to enhance mental toughness and resilience in grad school and beyond — and the importance of structuring good interactions with mentors.
Also, on April 1, I participated in an event at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching near Stanford. There again, the importance of mentors was featured in discussion of the new book about doctoral education, The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century by George Walker, Chris M. Golde, Laura Jones, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, and Pat Hutchings.
I have talked to many students who wish they had more supportive or productive interactions with their mentors. But a question I would like to ask you to consider is this: what have you done lately to improve your working relationship with your mentors? If the question leaves you puzzled, and you would like some ideas, you might find it helpful to look at the document “Best Practices For Faculty Mentoring Of Graduate Students,” (PDF) developed by the Graduate Council (with important input from graduate students!). Pages four and five have especially useful advice for students.
It’s important to realize that you have some responsibility in — and influence over — the character of the interactions you have with your mentors. I encourage you to take a moment to think about what you can do to help.
Best,
Andrew J. Szeri
Dean of the Graduate Division
P.S. To those of you who are finishing your degrees this spring, best of luck. And make us proud.
TopRecognition
- Robert Hass wins the Pulitzer
- Two trios of awards to faculty for mentoring grad students
Financial Aid
- You can still submit the FAFSA
- Get those budget appeals and loan adjustment requests in soon
- Summer loan eligibility
Graduate Fellowships
- Possibilities to help fund your graduate education
Calendar
- Upcoming events and workshops
Housing
- Looking for a place to live?
University Library
- Full-text U.S. Congressional materials now available
- Library book sales
University Health Services
- For grad students: a Counseling and Psychological Services branch
Berkeley Art Museum
- Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia
Pacific Film Archive
- Film and video makers at Cal
Author Note
- It’s a site, it’s a blog, it’s a book! Mama Ph.D.!
Robert Hass with Time and Materials
(Photo: Peg Skorpinski)
A nearly-two-decade member of the Berkeley English faculty, Professor Robert Hass added luster to his already near-blinding luminance April 7 by winning the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his book Time and Materials, a collection of his works between 1997 and 2005. That volume also won him the National Book Award last year. Among many other honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984, Hass from 1995 to 1997 served two consecutive stints as Poet Laureate of the United States.
Hass is the third current member of the Berkeley faculty to win a Pulitzer Prize. The others are Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism (one of the few Berkeley faculty to have been born in the Ottoman Empire), who won in 1953 for local reporting, and Leon Litwack, now Alexander and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus, who is also a Berkeley alumnus (B.A. ‘51, Ph.D. ‘58). Litwack won the history prize in 1980 for his book Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.
The Pulitzer (pronounced PULL-it-ser, not PYOO-lit-ser) is regarded as America’s highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. The prize, administered by Columbia University, was established in the will of crusading and controversial newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, a visionary whose newspapers reshaped journalism and who backed his belief that journalists should be trained at the university level by funding the world’s first school of journalism at Columbia.
For the second year in a row, the Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly are honoring faculty mentors of graduate students in a joint ceremony for the presentation of their respective awards.
The Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards will be presented by the Graduate Division, and the Distinguished Faculty Mentor Awards, which honor the mentoring of graduate students in their role as researchers, will be presented by the Graduate Assemby.
The 2008 recipients of the Graduate Division’s Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards are:
Junior Faculty Recipient
Senior Faculty Recipients
The 2008 winners of the Graduate Assembly’s Distinguished Faculty Mentorship Awards are:
The awards ceremony for both programs will take place Tuesday, April 22, 2008 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 775 of the College of Chemistry’s Tan Kah Kee Hall and is open to the campus community. The Sarlo awards have been made possible by a grant from the Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. They are administered by the Graduate Division in collaboration with the Graduate Council of the Academic Senate.
With commencements coming soon, this is the time of year for many honors. Right on the heels of these mentoring awards come the Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, which will be presented April 23. In early May, the Graduate Division will confer the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards, the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors (in the GSIs’ teaching role), and, from among the outstanding GSIs, the Teaching Effectiveness Awards. Details on all these will be published in an upcoming issue of eGrad.
TopThe 2008-2009 FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is available online. Although the March 3 priority deadline has passed, you can still submit the FAFSA to apply for federal student loans, work study, the low income parent grant , and to satisfy the requirement of the Graduate Services: Fellowships office. The Financial Aid Office’s FAFSA tip sheet is available on the FAO website (PDF).
Please submit any 2007-2008 budget appeals or requests for loan adjustment by April 15, 2008. The Financial Aid Office will be extremely busy with 2008-2009 processing after that date. This is especially important if you receive a late 2007-2008 award (such as a travel grant) from your department that may cause an “overaward.” If an overaward is created by a new award, The Financial Aid Office must return funds to the U.S. Department of Education and bill you for it on CARS; therefore, it’s important that you resolve matters in April.
Students enrolled in at least six Summer Session units may be eligible for federal student loans to cover the cost of fees and living expenses. More information is available online.
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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 seniors 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).
The Mining Circle in front of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building reopened in March, after a decade as a construction staging area. The circle, with lawn and reflecting pool, was originally built in 1914.
(Photo: Dick Cortén)
Graduate Division Calendar
Campus Events Calendar
Denotes Graduate Division sponsored event
APRIL 10 (Thursday)
Graduate Assembly Spring Reception
6 to 8 p.m., Lipman Room, eighth floor, Barrows Hall
Meet your department’s delegate and members of the Graduate Assembly Executive Board. Mingle over wine, beer, hors d’oevures, and the sounds of the Stacey Wallace Jazz Quartet. Find out ways you can get involved and make a difference for graduate students (positions are available; commitments from five to 30 hours per week). Proof of age is required. Sponsored by the Graduate Social Club and the Graduate Student Services Project.
APRIL 12 (Saturday)
Cal Day
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., all over campus
One of the world's top public research universities becomes an open classroom for children and adults alike, from around the Bay Area and beyond, and offers the public free admission to more than 300 activities, educational, athletic, and just plain fun.
(Photo: Dick Cortén)
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 (Monday)
Radio Program: “The Graduates”
Noon to 12:30 p.m., KALX (90.7 FM)
"The Graduates" is a weekly show dedicated to graduate student research at UC Berkeley. It is produced by Stephanie Gerson, a master's student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. On the show, she interviews graduate students across campus about their work on topics ranging from web-controlled paint-ball guns to the effect of environmental, health, and social information on consumer behavior. Comments and questions are welcome via email. Gerson is involved on multiple fronts. The winner of an Outstanding GSI Award for her instruction in 2006, she has interned in digital curatorial work for the Pacific Film Archive, does environmental research in the Second Life universe, runs a blog (as Sequoia Hax), and last Valentine’s Day hosted, with others at the Center for New Media, a social experiment in “tele-intimacy,” wherein live participants at tables for two in her lab on campus connected with their far-flung long-distance lovers via web cams and laptops.
APRIL 14 (Monday)
“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 14 (Monday)
Interview Strategies for Graduate Students and Ph.D.s
5 to 6:30 p.m., Room 104A, Career Center, 2111 Bancroft Way
Learn effective interview techniques for private and public sector jobs. This interactive workshop includes Q and A and a practice interview session. Registration is not required.
APRIL 17 (Thursday)
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.
APRIL 17 (Thursday)
Official launch of the new Center of Evaluation for Global Action (CEGA)
4 tom 7 p.m., Berkeley Art Museum, 2625 Durant Avenue
Keynote address: “Impact Evaluation: Improving the Practice of International Development”
Ariel Fiszbein, chief economist for human development at the World Bank (Berkeley Ph.D. in economics, 1991)
Panel discussion: “The Role of U.S. Universities in Global Development”
Daniel Mouen Makoua, chief operating officer, AZA Investment Managers (Berkeley M.Sc. and M.Eng. in civil engineering, 1986); Mark Lange, former speechwriter for former President George H.W. Bush; Jean-Jacques Dethier, research manager for development economics at the World Bank (Berkeley Ph.D. in economics, 1985), Leona Christ, program manager and member of the national executive committee of Pratham USA.
Through CEGA, UC Berkeley is bringing a scientific lens to the practice of economic development by experimentally testing strategies for poverty alleviation and learning what works to improve the lives of the poor. CEGA is comprised of researchers from a range of disciplines that includes business, agricultural economics, public health, and education).
An open reception will follow the panel discussion. RSVP by email.
APRIL 17 (Thursday)
Panel Discussion: Labor and the Public and Private Spheres of Black Women
4 to 5:30 p.m., CRG Conference Room, 691 Barrows Hall.
Participants: sociology graduate students Katrinell Davis (case study: “Piss Tests, Swing Shifts, and Pencil-Whippings: Workplace Restructuring and its Affect on African-American Transit Operators, 1970-2000”) and Dawn Dow (paper: “Integrated vs. Traditional Motherhood: Determinants of Employment of African-American and White Mothers Raising Preschool-Aged Children”). This is a Thursday Afternoon Forum of the Center for Race and Gender.
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 17, APRIL 24, and MAY 1 (Thursdays)
Looking Beyond Academia: A Series of Three Workshops
5 to 6:30 p.m., location to be announced
This series covers ways to identify and pursue professional opportunities outside academia. Topics include assessing interests, identifying options, translating the CV to a resume, job search, and strategies for salary negotiation. Registration by email is required. More details are available online. Sponsored by the Career Center.
APRIL 17 (Thursday)
Roundtable Discussion: Public Investment in Energy
6 to 9 p.m., Anderson Auditorium, Haas School of Business
An interactive discussion with leading energy economists, policy experts, venture lawyers, and researchers to better understand how and where U.S. energy policy happens as well as the key questions to consider when evaluating energy policy proposals. Dinner will be served from 6 to 7 p.m. before the event. Registration (by April 15) is required via email to Louise Gibbons. Admission is free. Sponsored by the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative.
APRIL 21 (Monday)
UC Berkeley Sustainability Summit: “Achieving Sustainability as One Person/Campus/Community/Nation/Planet”
8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Pauley Ballroom and various conference rooms , Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Keynote speaker: renowned environmentalist Michel Gelobter ’84, M.S. ’86, Ph.D. ’93, on social justice and climate change. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau will speak as well, and there will be breakout sessions. Achievements of people on campus will be recognized with Sustainability Awards. Lunch (for which an RSVP is required) will be provided free by Café De La Paz. The program and other information are available online. Sponsored by the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS).
APRIL 22 (Tuesday)
Awards Ceremony: presentation of honors to faculty for distinguished mentoring of graduate students
2:30 to 5 p.m., McCollum Room, 775 Tan Hall. Cosponsored by the Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly.
To be presented: the Graduate Division’s Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards for UC Berkeley Faculty and Junior Faculty and the Graduate Assembly’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Awards. (Please note: a separate ceremony — honoring outstanding graduate student instructors and faculty mentors of GSIs in their role as teachers — will take place Wednesday, May 7; details to be announced.)
APRIL 22 and 23 (Tuesday and Wednesday)
New Media Virtual Career Fair
Fields include interactive design, online publishing, internet art, web development, CGI, graphic art/design, and more. Register and participate online.
Co-sponsored by the California Alumni Association and Alumwire. (Alumwire’s key players are nearly all from Berkeley: co-founder and CEO Aaron Sahagan B.S. ’08 attended Haas; co-founder and Chief Technology Office Geoffrey Lee will graduate this year in EECS; the chief marketing officer, Scott Hayes, majored in international corporate management. Another co-founder, Sahagan’s brother Allan, is a student at Harvard.)
APRIL 23 (Wednesday)
Awards Ceremony: presentation of the Distinguished Teaching Awards and the Educational Initiatives Award
5 to 6:30 p.m., Zellerbach Playhouse
Four faculty members will receive the campus’s highest honor for teaching. Among the speakers are the Chancellor, the Executive Vice Chancellor, the chair of the Academic Senate, student representatives, and the recipients themselves. Each recipient will be highlighted in a video profile.
APRIL 23 (Wednesday)
Postdocs: What Should You be Looking For and How to Find Them
5 to 6:30 p.m., 215 Dwinelle Hall
Many Ph.D.s just kind of fall in to a postdoc, rather than thinking about it from a strategic perspective. Your postdoc is never an end in itself; rather it’s a means to another end whether that goal is a faculty position at a research university, a small college, national lab, or perhaps an industry job. Learn how to find postdoc opportunities that will best prepare you for that next step, and how to use your postdoc experience to facilitate the transition to your next position.
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.
MAY 1 (Thursday)
Graduate Assembly Delegate Assembly Meeting
5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Senate Chambers, Eshleman Hall (the Delegate Assembly meets the first Thursday of every month)
MAY 12 (Monday)
Last day of instruction for the spring semester
MAY 22 (Thursday)
Spring semester ends
MAY 24 (Saturday)
American Indian Graduate Program / Native American Studies 2008 Graduation
4 to 6 p.m., Lipman Room, eighth floor, Barrows Hall
MAY 26 (Monday)
Memorial Day holiday
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Cal Housing announces that this summer, 324 brand-new West Village Apartments will open at University Village in Albany. There will be additional two-bedroom and three-bedroom units, along with 192 new one-bedroom apartments for students who are married or in committed relationships.
The University Village community is three miles from campus on AC Transit’s 52L and 18 bus lines, and is close to Solano Avenue, El Cerrito Plaza, and BART. Monthly rent includes all utilities (except telephone) and a parking space. West Village Apartments open houses are planned for April 4 (4 to 6 p.m.), April 12 (Cal Day, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.), and Fridays from April 18 through May 22 (4 to 6 p.m.).
For more information about the new West Village Apartments, please contact the Family Student Housing Apartment Assignments Office by phone (642-4109) or email. You can download an application. The waiting list is chronological, so apply immediately if you are interested.
Some 2008-09 vacancies are also expected at Manville Apartments, and Ida Louise Jackson Graduate House. For more information, please contact the Residence Hall Assignments Office by phone (642-4108) or email.
For students interested in off-campus housing, Cal Rentals is the rental resource for the UC Berkeley community, providing information about the rental market, advice for conducting a housing search, and rental listings for students, faculty and staff. Students who need a roommate can list an available room for free on the website. For those seeking a rental, listings are available on-demand, online for a $20 fee which includes 3 months of online access.
Going out of town this summer for study or vacation? Many visitors come to Berkeley each summer for internships, summer study, to visit family or just for fun, and would like to sublet an apartment or room in the community. They usually start searching for a summer rental in April. If you're looking for a summer subtenant you can list your sublet opportunity for free on the Cal Rentals website. There's also a sample summer sublease form on the website if you need one.
Left to right: Ida Louise Jackson Graduate House, Manville Apartments, West Village Apartments. (Jackson House photo: Peg Skorpinski)
The namesake for Ida Louise Jackson Graduate House was a student here in the 1920s (B.A. ’22, M.A. ’24). She co-founded the Rho chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first African American Sorority at Berkeley. She was one of the very first African American woman certified to teach in California schools and became the first African American of either gender to teach in Oakland. She pioneered the Mississippi Health Project in her native state. In 1972 she donated hundreds of acres of her family’s Mendocino County sheep ranch to the university so the proceeds could be used to support graduate fellowships. The 120-bed College Durant residential complex became all-graduate-student housing and was renamed in Jackson’s honor in 2004. Photos: Ida Jackson as a student and in later life (Photos courtesy the Jackson Estate)Top
The UC Berkeley Libraries have just purchased access to several previously unavailable full-text digital congressional publications though our database LexisNexis Congressional. With this access, you can search for an exact quote from a hearing from your computer, where previously you had to visit the Library and spend some time reading the hearing to get the quote. The following types of congressional materials are now available (with one exception) for full-text searching.
Congressional Hearings (1824-2003) - LexisNexis is currently digitizing all congressional hearings and has completed the published hearings from the 1950s though 2003. They are working backwards and will have digitized all published and unpublished hearings from 1824-to present when the project is completed at the end of 2008. Prior to this digitization project, UC Berkeley only had access to the published hearings in paper and microfiche.
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (1916-2003) - CRS is a part of the Library of Congress and creates research reports for congressional members. CRS reports provide the background information that Congress uses in its legislative and investigative work. These reports are rarely released to the public, and can be a great starting point for many research projects because they contain background information and full bibliographies. UCB previously only had access to these reports from 1991to the present in microfiche.
Committee Prints (1830-2003) - Committee Prints contain a variety of information, including research, notes, and background reports that a congressional committee uses when it is working on a bill or other issue. The contents of Committee Prints vary widely, and some prints will contain more information than others. These documents provide invaluable insights into the inner workings of Congress. Prior to this purchase, UCB only had access to these from 1917 to1969 in microfiche and 1970 to the present in paper.
Because of the new full-text access and enhanced searching capabilities, the Library is planning to move all the paper and microfiche congressional materials that have been digitized to the Northern Regional Library Facility. If you need the paper or microfiche format of the document after this move, you can make a request and obtain the materials in one or two business days.
Lexis Nexis Congressional can be found in the Electronic Resources section of the Library website. For more information, please contact Federal Documents/Political Science Librarian Jesse Silva.
As part of its observance of Cal Day, the Library will hold two book sales. See April 12 in Calendar.
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2241 College Avenue, on campus east of Wurster: CPS's grad branch.
Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) recently opened an office on campus for graduate students. It’s located at 2241 College Avenue, a historic Victorian cottage east of Wurster Hall. The office is staffed Monday through Thursday. Office hours are 8 to 5 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and 11 to 5 on Thursday. Phone consultations for faculty, staff, and GSIs are available at 643-5929 from 10 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 3 p.m. Phone consultations are also available at the Tang Center (642-9494) from 10 to 6 Monday through Friday. If you are seeking personal or career counseling, call CPS at 642-9494 to schedule a brief phone consultation. The phone counselor will assess your individual needs and make the most appropriate appointment for you.
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When Paradise Arrived, charcoal and pastel
on paper, © Enrique Chagoya
This exhibition, the first major museum retrospective of Mexico-born, San Francisco-based artist Enrique Chagoya — who earned his M.A. (’86) and M.F.A. (’87) at Berkeley — will be on view in Galleries 2 and 3 through May 18. The more than 70 works on display, including paintings, charcoal and pastel drawings, prints, and mixed-media codices (accordion-folded books), all pulling from Chagoya’s personal history and reflecting his interest in the complex, overlapping cultural histories of Mexico and the United States. Building on the truism that history is told by those who win wars, Chagoya says, I decided to invent my own account of the many possible stories — from Cortez to the border patrol.” He and his family picnicked near the pyramids at Teotihuacan and attended Catholic church. “At the same time, I grew up with Mickey Mouse and Superman and all the comics. All the American programs were translated into Spanish. You name it, I saw it, all the way from Rin Tin Tin to Zorro to the Lone Ranger.” Many of these icons appear in his work, along with Aztec gods and colonial figures (in what he calls “reverse anthropology”), and he pays homage to the tradition of political satire and the canon of Western art. Chagoya has taught printmaking at Stanford University since 1995. His work is included in the collections of many major museums in the United States and Mexico.
TopTuesday, April 22, 2008
7:30 p.m., Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way (between Telegraph and Bowditch)
Artists in Person
An eclectic range of sophisticated and highly imaginative approaches to image-making by both undergraduate and graduate students—some of whom picked up a camera for the first time to make them.
your lips with cheese (Andrea Brizuela, Tess Minsky, 5 mins). Pamily (Khan Kwon, 6 mins). Pimping Iron (Joey Ponticello, 12.5 mins). Beside Myself (Louis Plell, 2.5 mins, B&W). Lettering (Joe Garrity, Miranda Peters-Lazaro, 5.5 mins). Chasing Intimacy (Danielle Huffaker, Janelle Smith, 14 mins).Crimen (Terry Patton, 2006, 6.5 mins). em nén khóc (you cannot cry) (Seryna Hanh Thai, 10 mins, In English and Vietnamese with English subtitles). Learn from Mistakes (Aric Huang, 4 mins, B&W)
(Total running time: 66 mins, U.S., 2007, Color, Digital video, From the artists, unless otherwise indicated)
Curated by UC Berkeley students Julien Guillemet, Elizabeth Johnson, Jungmin Lee, Alana Miller, Brittany Nickerson, Sang-hee Oh, August O'Mahoney, Jay Patumanoan, and Jennifer Siu, as part of an internship offered by UC Berkeley's Film Studies Department and PFA, under the guidance of Kathy Geritz, with the assistance of Jason Alley.
Advance tickets are available by calling (510) 642-5249 or online.
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Mainly, at the moment, it’s (almost) a book. It just happens to have the regulation 21st–century promotional bells and whistles, so it’s an instant community, and not a tiny one at that. The book’s full title is Mama, Ph.D.: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life, and it’s described as “a literary anthology of deeply-felt personal narratives.” Rutgers University Press is publishing it this summer. Its editors are Elrena Evans, a Penn State M.F.A. (married, two kids, undecided about finishing her Ph.D.) and Caroline Grant, a Berkeley comp lit Ph.D. (married, two kids, taught at Stanford and the SF Art Institute, writes a blog called food for thought). The editors assembled the volume “because we wanted to know that blending family life with life in the ivory tower might be possible; we needed to know that other women were attempting this balancing act.” Forty-two women had thoughts on walking that tightrope and contributed to the book, reflecting experiences at 
Caroline Grantinstitutions large and small, all over the country, remaining within academia and moving on. Besides Grant, three other Berkeley names appear in the roster, Angelica Duran ’87, M.A. ’88, now an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Purdue; writer-editor-photojournalist Jennifer Margulis M.A. '92; and Rebecca Steinitz, who first applied the English Ph.D. she earned here to the academic track at Ohio Wesleyan, where she became an associate professor, and has since become a widely-published writer, editor, and consultant based in Arlington, Massachusetts. Go see Mama.
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