Mentoring Students & Trainees

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.

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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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Chris Chang

Professor
Chemistry
Molecular & Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

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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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Nicholas Ingolia

Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular & Cell Biology

I study translational control of gene expression and I am interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying this regulation and its roles in cell physiology. My research involves developing and applying high-throughput experimental techniques and relies on analysis of large-scale data from these experiments. I'm an associate professor in Molecular and Cell Biology and I have been at UC Berkeley for nine years, joining as junior faculty after starting a lab elsewhere.

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Marla Feller

Paul Licht Distinguished Professor
Molecular & Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

I was trained as an experimental physicist and transitioned to neurobiology as a postdoctoral researcher. I am a junior professor at NIH, UCSD and came to UC Berkeley as an Associated professor.

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Eva Nogales

Professor
Molecular & Cell Biology

I earned a B.S. in Physics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), PhD in Biophysics (University of Keele, UK - worked at the Synchrotron Radiation Source with Joan Bordas using SAXS (small angle X-ray scattering and cryo-EM to study tubulin assembly). I did my postdoc in biophysics at LBNL (solved the structure of tubulin using electron crystallography working with Ken Downing). In 1998 I joined UC Berkeley's MCB Department as an Assistant Professor and have been here ever since. I have served as Head of the Biophysics graduate program at Berkeley, Head of the MCB Undergraduate...