Announcements

Erendida Corona and Ally Matheson, Geography Undergraduates, Present at Cal Day

April 13, 2024

students on stage presenting to a large room full of attendees

Big thanks to Erendida Corona and Ally Matheson, Geography undergraduates who represented Berkeley Geography well during the panel "Finding Your Academic Path at Berkeley" on Cal Day for incoming first-year students. As part of the ACES panel, they talked about finding a community at UC Berkeley and emphasized how being a...

Brandi Summers Interviewed by Berkeley Social Sciences

April 25, 2024

Members of the Archive of Urban Futures team in front of Mom's House in West Oakland

Professor Summers spoke to Berkeley Social Sciences recently about her career, her work with students, and her work to advance Oakland, where she grew up. Read her entire interview...

Ally Matheson, Geography Undergrad, Chosen for Virginia Tech Internship

April 26, 2024

Ally Matheson

Ally Matheson, Geography undergraduate, has been hired as a summer research assistant for the Dayer Lab at Virginia Tech! Ally will be working closely with Nathan Thayer, a postdoctoral researcher, to analyze survey data collected from members of...

William Fei Wins Honorable Mention for "A Celebration and Archive of San Pablo Avenue"

April 9, 2024

San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, CA

William Fei, Geograpahy undergraduate, has won an honorable mention from the Cartography and Geographic Information Society for his interactive map website, "A Celebration and Archive of San Pablo Avenue." William's site was created for his...

Summer Nicholas hired as an intern for Sustainable Oils

March 23, 2024

Summer Nicholas

Geography undergraduate, Summer Nicholas, has been hired as an intern for a Biotech/Agtech company, Sustainable Oils (SusOils). Sustainable Oils owns genetic patents of a crop called Camelina. Camelina is used to produce renewable diesel. Between May and August, Summer will be traveling across Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Montana, and Washington as part of a...

Joel Wanek Wins Berkeley Collegium Grant Award

April 18, 2024
Professor Joel Wanek

Congratulations to Professor Joel Wanek, who has been chosen as a recipient of a Berkeley Collegium Grant Award for his proposal, "Deep Listening: Sonically Mapping Bay Area Creeks!”

Antonio Gramsci and Current Conjuncture Conference Recordings

April 19, 2024
We are writing to share the videos from the “Antonio Gramsci and the Current Conjuncture Conference” held in McCone Hall, UC Berkeley on December 2, 2023, which are now available on the Trinity Social Justice Institute website. Please find it here. We regret that the last two panels are not available due to technical difficulties. Apparently, the camera simply quit recording and we were unable to salvage despite our...

Diana Negrín da Silva wins Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs

March 9, 2024

Professor Diana Negrin

Diana Negrín da Silva has won The Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs, an annual award presented to a faculty member who has provided outstanding pedagogical mentorship to GSIs. Congrats, Diana,...

‘Not a typical research project’: How maps and an enchanted garden in Oakland are teaching UC Berkeley students about the Bay Area’s past

March 13, 2024

students presenting research in front of tables covered in maps

“For them to find their voice, to feel comfortable, to find a place, even if it’s somewhat ephemeral, to engage — for me, that’s one of the most meaningful elements.”

A new article by Tor Haugan spotlights Geography professor Seth Lunine and the unique research project he leads in...

The Borders of Paradise, a new documentary by Geography undergraduate, Fraser Byers

March 21, 2024

Migrant on raft out at sea

The Borders of Paradise is an intimate dive into Ventimiglia, the final Italian town before the French border and is where 30,000 asylum seekers annually arrive in an attempt to enter the rest of Europe. Produced by Fraser Byers, Geography undergraduate, the film captures the physical and psychological...