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Consulting Career & Internship Fair
Wednesday, August 28th | 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cal Career Fair: Business & Public Service
Thursday, September 12th | 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Tuesday, September 17th | 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm *VIRTUAL*
Wednesday, October 2nd | 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 9th | 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Career & Internship Fair
Wednesday, October 23rd | 3:00pm-6:00pm
- Fall Fair Career Readiness for Students with Disabilities I Aug 29 from 10:30am-12pm
- Grow Your Skills: Apply to Campus Jobs I Sept 3 from 4-5pm
- Career Planning for First Gen Students I Sept 10 from 3-4pm
Meet with us 1:1 through the following 3 ways:
- Book a 15-minute “Resume or Cover Letter Check-In” during the first three weeks of the semester (Aug 26 - Sept 13) via Handshake, with slots released daily at 9:00 AM.
- For in-depth discussions, schedule a 30-minute appointment on Handshake with a career educator. Specialized appointments are available for international students and students registered with the Disabled Students Program.
- Starting Sept 16th, come to our drop in hours to meet with a peer advisor for resume/cover letter feedback and to learn more about our services.
Requirements, eligibility, & more:Click Here
Application Deadline: Sunday, October 6 at 11:59pm
Program Contact: Megan Collins, Matsui Program Manager, meganjcollins@berkeley.edu
Requirements, eligibility, & more:Click Here
Application Deadline: Sunday, October 6 at 11:59pm
Program Contact: Megan Collins, Matsui Program Manager, meganjcollins@berkeley.edu
Democracy Camp is designed for Cal undergrads who are interested in enhancing our democracy through public service, and who are still discerning their unique pathway. Students can apply to one of two programs: Democracy Camp in Berkeley, the Matsui Center's alternative spring break program, or Democracy Camp in DC, a weeklong experiential learning program in the nation's capital. In both programs, students meet with guest speakers from different fields, gain professional development skills, and grow their network. Upon completing the program, participants are engaged, empowered, and informed about how to make an impact in their communities and beyond.
Democracy Camp in Berkeley
Program Dates:
Monday, March 24 – Thursday, March 27, 2025
Eligibility: Click Here
Application Deadline:
Sunday, November 3 at 11:59pm
Program Contact:
Megan Collins,
Matsui Program Manager,
meganjcollins@berkeley.edu
Democracy Camp in DC
Program Dates:
Friday, May 23 – Saturday, May 31, 2025
Eligibility: Click Here
Application Deadline:
Sunday, November 3 at 11:59pm
Program Contact:
Megan Collins,
Matsui Program Manager,
meganjcollins@berkeley.edu
The John Gardner Public Service Fellowship program selects six Fellows during the spring semester from among the graduating classes at UC Berkeley and Stanford University and provides each a $52,000 stipend to work in the governmental or nonprofit organization that matches their public service interests for ten months. Past fellows have been placed at such organizations as the White House Office of Science and Technology, the State Department, and Governor Newsom's office. During their Fellowship, Fellows are paired with a senior-level mentor who guides their professional growth and development and provides opportunities and exposure, which exceeds what is normally available to a recent graduate. The goal of the John Gardner Fellowship is to provide meaningful postgraduate leadership opportunities and to encourage UC Berkeley’s best students to pursue a career in public service.
Each university has its own selection process and deadlines. This site is for UC Berkeley students interested in applying for the Gardner Fellowship.
Requirements, eligibility, & more:Click Here
Application Deadline: Monday, October 21 at 11:59pm
Program Contact: Terri Bimes, UC Berkeley John Gardner Fellowship Program Director, bimes@berkeley.edu
Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research
The Institute of Governmental Studies will award up to four research grants in the amount of $1,000 each to UC Berkeley undergraduate students who are conducting research on an aspect of American politics, including public opinion, electoral behavior, civic participation, government institutions, social movements, and public policy. We encourage students from all majors to apply. More information about eligibility and requirements can be found on our website.
Eligibility & Requirements: CLICK HERE
Application Deadline: Sunday, December 1 at 11:59pm
Program Contact: Megan Collins, Matsui Program Manager, meganjcollins@berkeley.edu
The Matsui Center Washington Fellowship offers financial support for Cal undergraduate students participating in the UC Berkeley Washington Program (UCDC). The fellowship provides a $1,000 stipend to help defray the costs of spending a semester in Washington, DC. Undergraduates are encouraged to apply directly to the UC Berkeley Washington Program.
Requirements, eligibility, & more:Click Here
Program Contact: Megan Collins, Matsui Program Manager, meganjcollins@berkeley.edu
Our project involves the development and testing of a serious video game designed for aggression prevention in children aged 9-12. The role offers hands-on experience in fieldwork at elementary schools, game-based training sessions, and data collection, promising an enriching experience for students interested in emotional learning, video gaming, and working with children.
Ideal candidates should have experience in gaming and working with children, and be available for at least 8 hours weekly, particularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 5 PM. Spanish proficiency is a plus, though not required.
We are looking for UC Berkeley undergraduates who can commit for at least one year, with the position bearing academic units. The role starts as soon as possible!
For those interested, please direct them to send their resume and a cover letter to at risk-resilience-research@berkeley.edu. More information about the lab and our work can be found at http://risk-resilience.berkeley.edu/.
My name is Natalie, and I am a student volunteer with Conversations to Remember, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, dedicated towards combating loneliness and isolation felt by senior citizens. We are very interested in partnering with you to have your students volunteer with us to help these seniors. Our virtual visit program matches 2-3 college students with residents of long-term care, assisted living, and memory care communities for virtual video visits. These residents have been suffering from isolation, and your students could really brighten their days just by speaking with them. We provide training to the students in the program about the best ways to interact with the seniors, as well as additional support throughout their service. Since these visits are virtual, your students can do it without any travel. This is both convenient, and allows more of the volunteers' time to be spent volunteering, rather than commuting to their volunteering location. We provide this program free of charge to seniors across the country, and have students from around the country as well. We would very much like to partner with you, and hope that your students would like to volunteer to help our seniors.
Typically, students volunteer one hour per week. Each call lasts up to one hour, based on the senior's attention span and mood on each day. We expect students to volunteer for at least 16 weeks, so that they can build a friendship with the senior. This does not need to coincide with the start of a semester, as we have new seniors starting all the time, and train new volunteers weekly. The students are matched based on the times that they're available, with a senior who is available at the same time, and they will have a regular, weekly appointment for their visit. Students wishing for more visits or other opportunities that allow them to volunteer more hours can be accommodated with different ways to volunteer, such as assisting us with our social media, call support, or outreach.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions that you have about the program, or to look through our website, athttps://conversationstoremember.org. Your students can register to volunteer by filling out a volunteer interest form on our website. If you'd like a flyer to tell your students about us, you can find onehere
Data 6 is an introductory data science course for students who do not plan to be a Data Science major, or who maybe have some interest but would like to start out by taking a class that will have a lighter approach to the subject than Data C8 would. This class is approved to meet Social & Behavioral Science breadth. (Data 6 cannot be taken concurrently with or after Data C8, but it is ok to take Data C8 for credit after Data 6.)
In Fall 2024, there are still 42 seats reserved for Social Science majors, which we will hold until the end of Phase 2. If you have any questions, please contact us at ds-advising@berkeley.edu.
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The key thing for you to know is that:
oNon-majors can pre-enroll by manually adding themselves to the waitlist. You will be added automatically when Haas unlocks enrollment when the semester begins. oOtherwise, you can simply go to class and they will enroll you manually.
ENERGY AND CIVILIZATION (UGBA 193B)T-Th 12:30 – 2:00 in N 370 - Chou Hall
Discussion Sections:
DIS 101: Fri., 2-3 PM, Cheit 110
DIS 102: Fri., 3-4 PM, Cheit 110
4 units
Course Description
Energy has been one of the main drivers of civilization since the beginning. Today, it is also the source of some of modern civilization’s most serious problems – including climate change, air and water pollution, and consequent public health problems and the destruction of natural ecosystems. Can we solve these problems -- while maintaining the energy benefits that make modern civilization possible? Can we do so while also extending these benefits to hundreds of millions of impoverished people in the developing world? If so, how?
The purpose of UGBA 193B, Energy & Civilization, is to grapple with these questions. Using a systems approach, our teaching team will help students learn to analyze and develop solutions for modern society’s complex, often conflicting energy problems. This approach integrates analysis of the societal, cultural, economic, technological, business management, scientific, and political drivers of energy innovation with an examination of the political, economic, technical, cognitive and cultural constraints, uncertainties, and conflicts that make developing and instituting solutions to our energy problems very difficult – and the many political and other strategies needed to overcome these problems.
Students will develop group research projects on this subject and present them to the class.
Lecture topics include:
·Systems approaches for analyzing, developing, and evaluating solutions for problems in energy technology innovation and energy policy innovation (such as societal system analysis, life cycle analysis; innovation pathway analysis, industrial supply chain analysis).
·Innovation taking place in current and emerging energy technologies. Comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of these technologies, including coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal.
·Factors that make our current energy problems difficult to solve, including cognitive biases, political problems, technical challenges and economic costs, and market failures.
·Historical development of humanity’s modern, fossil fuel-based energy system; how understanding past energy transitions can help us better anticipate the challenges of the current transition – and how it will likely differ from past transitions.
·Comparing energy demand and supply factors in the developed and developing worlds.
·How quantitative methods and concepts such as uncertainty estimates, cost/benefit, probability and statistics improve our ability to address energy/climate challenges effectively.
·Challenges of change-agency and leadership at the business as well as the political and societal levels
This course focuses on how climate change is framed to the public. As the threat of climate change increases daily, we must analyze how climate change is framed, because the media can convince people of almost anything. This class is going to analyze how climate change is portrayed through various forms of media, including writing, documentaries, news outlets, and our daily surroundings. We will particularly be focusing on the concept of environmental justice when examining all these sources. In order to properly address climate change, we must build a framework that not only protects our planet but also ensures that the burdens and benefits of a sustainable future are shared equitably among all communities, leaving no one behind. There will be field trips and guest speakers.
Course #: ESPM 27711
Fridays 5-6:30