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Spotlight On: UC Berkeley graduate students, faculty, and alumni

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 at a small community college in Washington state for 10 years... 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 literature, language, and culture... more

Arlene Blum: Biophysical Chemistry, Ph.D. class of 1971
One September evening in 1970, working alone in my chemistry lab in Latimer Hall, I was preparing nucleic acid for my final experiments for my Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry... 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

Christine Carter: Executive Director, Greater Good Science Center
Reams of academic research abound across the country on how to raise happy children, but who has the time to read this myriad of findings, boil down the facts, and then turn them into practical parenting advice?... more

Carolyn Chee: The new face of Graduate Services
Carolyn Chee is in charge of three key offices in the Graduate Division, and she's new, only here since mid-September. But there's reason to think she's up to the task... 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 like a five-day package excursion through the great cities of Europe... more

Alvaro Huerta: City and regional planning Ph.D. student
A stint as a day laborer on the star-studded Malibu coast launched Alvaro Huerta’s career in academia. "Hot and terrible" is how the UC Berkeley city and regional planning Ph.D. student recalls those... 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