Welcome Address

Associate Dean Carlos Fernandez-Pello, Graduate Division. Making the most of your first two years of graduate school at UCB.

Introduction to Key Student Organizations

Mark Richards, Physical Sciences Dean & Berkeley Edge-AGEP PI.
BGESS, David Moody, Interim President
LAGSES, Cruz Carlos, President
AIGSES, Ben Fine, Officer

Finding Your Research Niche

Professor Jeremy Thorner, MCB
Research group dynamics: working as part of a research team, fitting in, adjusting, recognizing your work style. Deciding on a research focus and group.

Work Hard, Play Hard

Nerayo Teclemariam, Chem Eng.; Travis Brown, Integrative Biology; Esther Zeledon, ESPM. Balancing courses, teaching, finding funding, and other aspects of surviving in academia, with personal interests, social and family life.

Faculty Advising, Mentorship, Guidance

Professor William Lester, Chemistry; Lorraine Sadler, Physics; Kofi Boakye, EECS. The roles of faculty in graduate students’ lives and work; how to identify faculty to work with, establish and maintain these important relationships.

Know Your Department

Special Guests: Graduate Assistants

Berkeley Edge, IDEAL Scholars, SMASH Academy joint event

Funding Academic Work

Jessica Cruz de Osuna, ESPM (and more): Fellowships, grants, travel, professional development etc.

Research Presentations by advanced graduate students:

Rey Guerra, Mechanical Engineering & Freddie Bowie, Chemistry

The Academic Path

Professor Oscar Dubon, Applied Science and Technology Graduate school as an apprenticeship for a faculty career. Looking down the road from the start of it. How to get from here to the professoriate.

Closing

Special Guests: Faculty advisers and research supervisors