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Traditionally, the holy grail for doctoral students has been a professorship at a prestigious university. But in a sign of changing times, many Ph.D. students are now seeking jobs outside higher ed. Enter “Beyond Academia,” a career conference organized by Ph.D. students and postdocs.
Tag: graduate students
MCB grad forging new pathways in science, and academia
April 30, 2012:
Persons of Interest: Immunology grad student Patty Garcia chips away at the barriers that divide science and society, while puzzling out the molecular mechanics of cancer.
Grad student demonstrates long-predicted effect on cosmic background radiation
March 20, 2012:
Nick Hand, a graduate student in astronomy, has confirmed a subtle effect on the cosmic microwave background radiation that was predicted 40 years ago. While an undergraduate at Princeton, Hand combined new survey data of distant galaxies to show that the temperature of the background radiation – a remnant of the Big Bang – is shifted when it passes through a galaxy cluster.
UC grad students take their research to Sacramento
March 15, 2012:
A delegation of 20 UC graduate students and deans traveled to Sacramento March 14 to give lawmakers a message — that their research is of vital important not only to the future of the UC, but to the state and nation.
UC Berkeley grad student’s research spurred by Gulf oil spill
February 8, 2012:
Soon after the April 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil platform killed 11 workers and spilled 5 million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, UC Berkeley graduate student Thomas Azwell packed his bags and headed to Louisiana. Azwell teamed up with researchers in the Gulf to develop marsh restoration technology that could impact remediation efforts nationwide.
Birgeneau enlists students in federal-funding push
February 6, 2012:
BERKELEY — In a talk to the Graduate Assembly Thursday evening, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau called for intensified student advocacy for his proposed public-private funding model, which would redirect federal dollars to replace revenue lost through state budget cuts. Under the chancellor’s plan, which is modeled on Berkeley’s successful Hewlett Challenge endowment program, the federal government would redirect $1 [...]
Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design
January 4, 2012:
Undergraduate and graduate students teamed up with biologist Robert Full to study how lizards use their tails when leaping. What they found can help design robots that are more stable on uneven terrain and after unexpected falls, which is critical to successful search and rescue operations.
Honoring outstanding faculty mentors: Nominations due Feb. 3
January 2, 2012:
Each year, members of the campus faculty are honored for exemplary, beyond-the-call-of-duty mentoring of graduate students. Nominations for two such honors — the Graduate Division’s Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards and the Graduate Assembly’s Faculty Mentor Award — are due Feb. 3, 2012.
Trimming time in the stacks
December 20, 2011:
Computer science graduate student Aditi Muralidharan has developed a sophisticated text-analyzing tool that could speed literary searches for humanities scholars and other researchers.
Grad students offer on-the-ground reporting from Occupy Oakland
November 3, 2011:
Reportage on Occupy Oakland’s fluid and multifaceted Nov. 2 protests included updates from two Berkeley grad students. Journalism student Amina Waheed reported live for MSNBC, while Aaron Bady, a doctoral student in English, detailed his experience on his blog.
Grad student reveals the secrets of fellowship success
June 20, 2011:
Political science Ph.D. candidate Vasundhara Sirnate, who just won the $30,000 Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year, describes how she did it — and how others can win fellowships, too.
Behind the scenes with the state EPA chief
May 25, 2011:
“Read the bill.” That policy lesson, delivered in a keynote address by California EPA Secretary Linda Adams, resonated with newly minted Ph.D.’s at a recent Environmental Science, Policy, and Management graduate research symposium.
