Join the Berkeley Science Fellows Program: Part-time on-campus internships for Postdocs at UC Berkeley startups! The Berkeley Postdoc Entrepreneurship Program (BPEP) in partnership with the Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs Program and Skydeck is recruiting postdocs for the Berkeley Science Fellows Program. In this program, Postdocs are partnered with startups from the Skydeck over a 3-12 month period to help the startups solve …
To uplift our everyday life during the Shelter-In-Place, our Social Committee organizes a series of bake-together online meetings. Led by a pastry wizard, Louise Frenck, we prepared a chocolate cake, lemon cake, and apple crumble so far. We meet weekly on Sundays at 3 PM.
Our weekly movie nights make the movie watching during Shelter-in-Place a bit more social. Every week we vote for the movie we watch, and during the Netflix Party on Fridays with Berkeley Lab postdocs and friends, we comment real-time on the action on our screens. We have already watched: Outbreak …
During our Cultural Lunch on Friday, April 10th we travelled to France to learn more about delicious French food from Louise Frenck from the Materials Sciences Division. You can watch Louise’s presentation here.
Thanks to Zara Bagdasarian, a postdoc in the Nuclear Science Division, on Friday, March 27th, we visited the country of Georgia! You can watch Zara’s presentation here and find her slides here.
During our February Postdoc-to-Postdoc, Ryan Kingsbury, a postdoc in ETA, gave us an introduction to GTD practices and described how they can enhance our productivity at work and home. Getting Things Done (GTD) is a system of habits and practices for getting life under control. Detailed in the bestselling book …
Fadji Maina and Maryna Bilokur Words Andrew Lives By: “Whatever happens, happens.” Andrew’s journey to Berkeley Lab Born in Hayward, CA and raised in Georgetown, KY, Andrew received his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Louisville in 2017. His first interest in science arose in elementary school when he …
A group of 29 postdocs went to Rock City park in Diablo State park on Saturday Feb 22nd, for the first BLPA hike of the year 2020. After marveling at the magnificent rock formations and views of the park, they hiked along the Staircase Trail, looping back to Rock city …
In January we travel to Ireland during our Cultural Lunch. Thanks to Oisin Creaner, a postdoc in NERSC, we learned about fascinating Irish history. Check Oisin’s presentation here.
Join Berkeley Postdoc Entrepreneurship Program for a presentation and Q&A on the immigration strategies entrepreneurs must know when establishing a U.S. company, transferring employees across borders, or developing a long-term U.S. immigration strategy. This presentation will explore the key concepts entrepreneurs and U.S. startups need to understand U.S. immigration law …
