Berkeley has significant resources for STEM doctoral students and postdocs – the following is a sampling of the kinds of groups on campus making an impact for the STEM community. Get engaged, develop your networks, and attend some of the excellent events they organize each semester.
Student- and Postdoc-led Initiatives
Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering (ADSE) – look for UC Berkeley chapter information
Bay Area Graduate Pathways to STEM (Bay Area GPS)
Bay Area Scientists in Schools (BASIS) – for teaching k-12
Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC)
Berkeley Postdoctoral Association (BPA) – see also BPA’s Career Pathways
Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Program (BPEP)
Berkeley Science Review
Beyond Academia – see also Beyond Academia’s career resources page
Bias Busters
Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students (BGESS)
Career Development Initiative for the Physical Sciences (CDIPS)
Chemistry Graduate Life Committee (GCLC)
Graduate Women of Engineering (GWE)
Graduates for Engaged and Extended Scholarship in Computing and Engineering (GEESE)
Latinx Association of Graduate Students in Engineering and Science (LAGSES)
MCB295: Careers for Life Science Ph.D.s
Postdoc Industry Exploration Program (PIEP)
Postdoc Teaching Opportunities Program (PTOP)
QB3-Berkeley Postdoc Community
Science Leadership and Management (SLAM)
Science Policy Group
Society for the Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Society of Women in the Physical Sciences (SWPS)
Stem Fam – a monthly dinner group on the Berkeley Campus, uniting under-represented minority (URM) graduate students and postdocs (you can request to join this Google Group to learn more)
The Clear Project Project (Communication, Literacy & Education for Agricultural Research)
Thriving in Science (TiS)
Women in Chemistry Initiative (WICI)
If you represent a Berkeley student or postdoc group you would like listed here (must have some professional development component, and be open to members from different academic departments), please contact rlurie@berkeley.edu
Campus Administrative Initiatives
American Indian Graduate Program (AIGP)
Berkeley Graduate Assembly
Berkeley International Office (BIO)
Career Center
Coalition for Education and Outreach
Graduate Division – GradPro
GSI Teaching & Resource Center
Office for Graduate Diversity
Student Parent Center
Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA)
