Thank you for your interest in the Berkeley Edge Conference, October 25-27, 2012, at the University of California, Berkeley. Please complete a recommendation form for each student you are recommending. We encourage you to recommend students with whom you have had direct teaching or research interaction with and whom you anticipate will succeed in a doctoral program at Berkeley.
Please note that the Berkeley Edge Conference is an NSF-sponsored program for underrepresented minority groups. The NSF defines an underrepresented minority in science, mathematics, and engineering as African American, Chicano/Latino/Hispanic, American Indian, Alaskan Native, or Native Pacific Islander.
If a student you recommend is invited to the conference, UC Berkeley will provide all travel, lodging and meals for the student. For more information about the conference, please call 510-642-5777 or email berkeleyedge@berkeley.edu
Recommendation Form Instructions:
- All questions with an * must be completed. The information may be lost and the form may need to be completed again if it is submitted without completing all fields with an *. If there is missing required information, it will prevent the form from being submitted and the information you have filled out likely will be lost and will need to be re-entered.
- You must have a valid email address to use this form. We will use the address in our initial correspondence with you.
- Recommendation forms must be submitted online no later than September 23, 2012.
- If this is not a student-initiated application, please refer the student whom you have recommended to the Berkeley Edge Program website for full instructions and access to the Student Application Form for completion by September 23, 2012. Each student must complete the online application and submit additional materials by September 23, 2012.
