April 2007 Newsletter Contents

1. From the Director (Renate Holub)

Dear ISF students, alumnae, and friends of the ISF community,
In early April, we had a very successful ISF open house. Students arrived from all over campus to inquire about the major. Noticeably, read more ...

2. ISF Advice (Dawn Strough)

Is anyone else suffering from "Spring Fever?" I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year because I get a little "daydreamy" and antsy to spend time in the warm weather but I also love read more ...

3. Opportunities & Events

• Opportunities
  Professor Cipolat is looking for a volunteer student coordinator to help him with the organization of next semester's ISF Film Series read more ...
  
• Events
  Wednesday, April 25, 12:00 p.m.
  Dan Mathews, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals vice president and author of "Committed: A Rabble Rouser's Memoir," discusses his work as an animal rights activist read more ...
  

4. Student Research

• Mark Lambert is a fourth year senior majoring in ISF. His area of concentration is environmental science and environmental policy, with a special focus on read more ...
• Sun Lee: Each year, 20 undergraduates from all across campus obtain the prestigious Haas Scholarship for undergraduate research. Sun Lee was the only ISF student among the lucky winners in 2006-2007 read more ...

5. Senior Thesis and Faculty Profiles

• Darlene Murphy is a 3rd year transfer student from Las Positas College in Livermore, California. She is an ISF major with her area of concentration in contemporary developments in Africa read more ...
• Professor Kaiping Peng, Ph.D, is professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. Darlene met Professor Peng while read more ...
• Philip Manwell, PhD, Dean of Academic Services at Las Positas College, Livermore California. Dr. Manwell was Darlene's first instructor when she started college in 2001 read more ...

6. Alumn Profiles

• Elizabeth Vivirito graduated from UC Berkeley in the fall of 2005. Her major was Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on International Studies, Development, and Communications. As an undergraduate, read more ...
• Ben Goltz: I moved to Berkeley in August of 1999, interested in everything and interested in nothing. The idea of drilling to such a granular level in any one area never appealed to me. What is, and always has been, read more ...