On Friday, September 20, we celebrated the National Postdoc Appreciation Week with the trivia game about all the countries we visited during our Cultural Lunches and the international potluck with our favourite national dishes or snacks.
On Friday, August 30th, Junsong Lin, a postdoc in the Physics Division and a BLPA volunteer in the Outdoor Committee, gave us a great overview about the region of Canton, China: where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. We enjoyed this small travel to the “California …
On Friday, August 9, 2019, we explored the Land Down Under with Sally Robertson, a postdoc at the Nuclear Science Division.
On the fourth of July, BLPA organized the traditional barbecue in a park South Berkeley. We spent the afternoon grilling meat and vegetables and enjoying this sunny afternoon. Link to all photos
Our May Meet&Greet took place in the Molecular Foundry. First, we had a VIP tour at the facility highlighting the research which is conducted there. Then we join the Nanosocial event for some dip-in break with hummus and guacamole.
We went to Buck Institute – Novato Ca for a full-day event organized by the Bay Area Postdoc Association (bayareapostdoc.org). We started with a networking session in the morning, followed by lunch and a seminar from Lauren Celano of Propel Career Services. Her talk titled “How to be Competitive for …
Dmytro Oliinychenko from the Nuclear Science Division told us about his home country: Ukraine. We learned about geography, food, and sports; all accompanied by homemade borscht!
The Netherlands – which is NOT the same as Holland. Holland is only a small part of it. A country of flatness, water, biking and tolerance to gain more profit. Arnoud Everhardt of the Materials Science Division presented on his home country The Netherlands in a typical Dutch way. The …
On Saturday, March 30, BLPA went to the Madame Tussauds Escape Room in San Francisco. The two groups successfully escaped in less than the regular time! We had a lot of fun and we hope to do it again. Thank everyone for coming!
On Friday 08/03/2019, Laurie Stephey, a postdoc in NERSC, told us about her home state – Florida. Florida: the Sunshine State, the lightning strike capital of the US, and the shark bite capital of the world.
