This fall, the Energy & Resources Group students, faculty, and staff return to campus in-person for the first time in more than a year and a half. To celebrate, we asked ERGies to share their thoughts and feelings on the transition. We hope these reflections will also give prospective students a unique window into how we work to support each other (and have fun doing it)! Pictured above: the return…
In this fourth edition of Quarantine Diaries, we’re sharing reflections from some of the newest ERGies — students, faculty, and staff — collected earlier in the semester.
A North Star guides our day-to-day actions, even when progress is slow, or when barriers arise and cause us to change course.
This week we hear from ERG graduate students (and alumni!) spread across the Sierras; Bellingham, Washington; and Berkeley, California.
“What I liked the most about living in this amazing community, UC Village, was that I could arrange a lot of play dates…. but there’s no such thing anymore. So I try to take my kids bike-riding outside the apartment often.“ We’re back with Part 2 of our Quarantine Diaries series! This week, we share stories from both students and staff in the ERG community. Read on for reflections on…
It’s been nearly a month since the Bay Area began to shelter-in-place. Since then, ERGies have spread all across the world in efforts to keep themselves and their communities safe. None of this is easy, but we’re all doing our best to stay in good health and high spirits in this unprecedented time. Keeping up with friends and family feels more important than ever. So, Life@ERG is catching up with…
This blog post, written by a group of ERG students, contains advice that we often give to prospective ERG applicants and that we wish we’d heard when we applied for graduate school.
Berkeley Haas Business School’s Cleantech to Market (C2M) class provides free consulting to clean technology firms to help them through this journey from R&D to commercialization. Its goals are to prevent promising ideas from dying in the pre-commercial gap, and to train an interdisciplinary group of students to evaluate and pitch these technologies – valuable skills for their lives after graduate school.
In the aftermath of another round of divisive elections in the United States (and around the globe) many of us feel distraught about the ability and speed of our political systems to address urgent social challenges. Votes may have been cast and ballots counted, but that does not mean we must wait another two years for our next chance to shape our world.
I’ve decided to write about a concept that has grabbed at my consciousness at a couple points of extrospection. One point comes from reflection at the punctuation of my academic career, remembering the fact that I was often one of the few — or even the only — black person or person of color in the room. The second comes from observation of the current U.S. Congress and what these midterms election meant for the future of our democracy.