Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Diversity Director
Dr. Colette Patt

The Science Diversity Office works with departments, faculty, staff and students to increase the number of women and underrepresented students in the physical sciences at Berkeley. Established in 1993, the Science Diversity office advocates for and provides an array of services to students. The Physical Sciences Division is a national leader in addressing the persistent problem of underrepresentation in the sciences in the US. Berkeley enrolls and graduates more underrepresented minorities with Ph.D.s in the sciences, mathematics and engineering than any other university.

Our staff is available to assist undergraduates and graduate students, as well as prospective students. We provide assistance applying to graduate school in the physical sciences. The Diversity Office also offers advocacy, advising and other resources and services for current students. The Science Diversity Office's objective in providing these services is to increase the diversity of the student population and the professoriate in the sciences. The Science Diversity Office is open to all students.

The Berkeley Edge Program

The Berkeley Edge is a recruitment, retention and advancement program designed to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who acquire doctoral degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The program is a partner in the University of California system-wide effort (UC-AGEP) to identify, recruit, retain, and assist in advancing talented minority students to graduate school and into the professoriate.

The program is funded by the National Science Foundation's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NSF–AGEP); the MK Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI); and UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry, the Divisions of Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters & Science, the College of Engineering, the College of Natural Resources, and the Graduate Division.

Contacting the Berkeley Edge Program

Colette Patt, Ph.D., Director
The Berkeley Edge Program, NSF-AGEP
University of California, Berkeley
101 Durant Hall, MC 2920
Berkeley, CA 94720-2920
Phone: 510-642-0794
Fax: 510-643-2261
Email: berkeleyedge@berkeley.edu