November 2007 Newsletter Contents

1. From the Director (Renate Holub)

I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving break. As we have returned to classes, study questions for the final exams are already appearing on a variety of b-spaces. Meanwhile, our ISF courses for the spring are filling up quickly read more ..

2. ISF Advice (Dawn Strough)

"So, what are you going to do with an ISF degree, anyway?" Is this a familiar question? Dreading the thought of having to answer this question to relatives over the Holidays? read more ...

3. Opportunities & Events

• Opportunities
  

  1. ISF Newsletter Assistant (part-time work study):Job Description:
  - Help develop web-published newsletter in cooperation with ISF Newsletter editor
  - Assist in production of three monthly newsletters per semester
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• Events
  

  Thursday, Nov. 29: Danish UN Ambassador speaks about UN Reform: Denmark's Ambassador to the United Nations, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, will speak on "Why Both Large and Small States Need an Effective United Nations." The Ambassador will discuss current proposals and obstacles read more ...

4. Student Research

• Radhika Bhat is an ISF major in her final semester. During her years at Berkeley studying human rights and international law, she has become very interested in the patterns of violence that have manifested themselves in recent history read more ...


• Amy Leff's thesis title is "Toward Universal Access: How a Public Health Care System Could Eliminate Health Disparities," which compares the U.S. health care system and health disparities with those of Canada. read more...

5. Senior Thesis and Faculty Profiles

• Jordan Troeller is a fifth year majoring in ISF and Art History. She is currently in the process of completing an honors thesis in the History of Art Department with Professor Anne Wager. read more ...


• Jordan's mentor is Professor Anne Wagner (Ph. D. Harvard; M.A. Brown). As professor of modern and contemporary art, she is an invaluable resource on the often insurmountable complexities of sculpture read more ..

6. Alumn Profiles

• Suzan Sabyl Cohen: My path to earning my degree at UC Berkeley was not a typical path. I transferred into Berkeley as a 33 year old retail buyer turned professional poker player. I had always dreamed of being an active and involved college student read more ...


• Shital Mehta :Uncovering opportunities where others don't dare or even think to look, going where no one else has gone before and daring to think big: these are the keys to innovation and entrepreneurship and skills I really cultivated as an ISF major. read more ...