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Berkeley Social Sciences launches comprehensive internship program to prepare students for meaningful careers

February 13, 2024

Berkeley Social Sciences launched a new program recently to better equip students for successful careers by giving them real-world experiences. The Social Sciences Career Readiness Internship Program (SSCRIP) prepares students for a variety of professions by offering skills workshops, personalized coaching, internship placement assistance, and stipends for unpaid and low-paid internships.

"Our responsibility towards...

Inclusive Faculty Mentorship (IFM): A Life Sciences Initiative

The Inclusive Faculty Mentorship (IFM) is a three year pilot program funded in part by the UCOP AFD Program. The IFM aims to create an inclusive, supportive foundation for life science junior faculty by establishing a committee-...

Author Interview with Sandra Eder: How the Clinic Made Gender

June 13, 2023

Sandra Eder is a history professor at UC Berkeley. In 2022, she wrote How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea, a book that explores the history of how the concept of gender emerged out of the medical sector and influenced society. Eder was interviewed during Pride Month 2023 as issues surrounding gender expression and identity were at the forefront of public discussion.

What sparked your idea to write a book on this topic?

In my research, gender always played an important role, but I increasingly became interested in the...

Entrepreneurship For All: A Conversation with Umair Khan

April 26, 2023

Umair Khan’s mission in life, it seems, is to help budding entrepreneurs. “At Folio3 Software, I help entrepreneurs build out their products. At Mentors Fund, I invest in entrepreneurs. At Berkeley, I teach entrepreneurs. And at Zareen's, the restaurant which my wife established, I feed entrepreneurs.”
Umair’s connection to UC Berkeley began through outreach from the Institute for South Asia Studies. These discussions and interactions...

Stephen Brohawn

Assistant Professor
Molecular & Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

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John F. Hartwig

Professor
Chemistry

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Eric Neuscamman

Associate Professor
Chemistry

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Sarah Stanley

Associate Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology

I am an immunologist and microbiologist who works on bacterial infection. I received my PhD from UCSF in 2006 under the mentorship of Jeff Cox. My work focused on using genetic approaches to identify virulence factors in the bacterial pathogen M. tuberculosis. I then received postdoctoral training at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where I explored chemical biological approaches to identifying novel treatments for tuberculosis. I started my lab at Cal in 2012. My research here has focused on understanding protective immunity to Mtb at a mechanistic level using the mouse model...

Damian Elias

Professor
Environmental Science, Policy & Management

I am a first-generation college student who went to the University of Arizona. In my 2nd year, I switched to a STEM focused major (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). I earned my PhD at Cornell University in the Neurobiology and Behavior department working on spider behavior. I worked as a Postdoc at the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia before starting as an assistant professor in the Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) department in 2009. In ESPM, my lab studies behavioral ecology and animal communication.

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Michael Botchan

Dean of Biological Sciences, Professor
Molecular & Cell Biology

I received a PhD in Biophysics here at Berkeley studying in the Chemistry department. I discovered the rapidly renaturing "satellite " DNA in drosophila (Dm) and showed that they are located in the heterochromatin. I left posit doc at Cold Spring Harbor Labs and became a virologists studying SV-40 and Adenoviruses. My work there showed that these Viruses integrate without specificity in cells they transformed where replication was non-permissive or very weak. I cloned the first tumor viral chromosomal DNA as showed that the sequences at the junctions were the results of end joining....