From stroke rehabilitation to supply chain resilience and diabetes care, Cognitive Science student entrepreneurs pitched their startups to potential investors at the Berkeley Accelerator & Startup Incubator in Cognitive Science’s (BASICS) Fall Pitch Day.
Students pitched their projects (developed as part of the BASICS course) to a panel of investors and startup experts including Aman Verjee of Practical Venture Capital; Dermot Mee of Fourier; Frank Barcellos of Maple Bear Global Schools Association; Sudarshan Sridharan of SF1; Lucas Miller of Berkeley Haas...
The Social Sciences D-Lab recently launched a new program to prepare postdocs to lead research and teaching that emphasize equity, cultural relevance and ethical practice in data science.
In partnership with the Berkeley School of Education (BSE) and the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the two-year Berkeley Data Science Education Fellowship provides three postdocs with monthly skill-building workshops, teaching opportunities and multidisciplinary research opportunities.
Economics and Cognitive Science junior Pilar Capdevila gravitated towards the UC Berkeley Social Sciences Career Readiness Internship Program (SSCRIP) seeking mentorship and valuable industry insights. The program prepares Social Sciences students for meaningful careers through professional development training and paid summer internships.
Growing up in Madrid, Spain, Capdevila came to Cal after completing her first two years at Sciences Po Paris in Reims, France, through the Science Po-UC Berkeley dual degree program. She is now finishing her last two years...
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.
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...
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.
