Resources
Academic
General
- Advice on Graduate School Advisors
- Women Faculty in EECS
- Orals Survival Kit - advice for qualifying exams
Jobs / Scholarships
- Jobs and Internships
- Job Postings (maintained by EECS Department)
- EECS Internship Program
- UCB Career Center
- Fellowships for women
- Sheila Humphreys - Financial Aid referral
- UC Berkeley Graduate Division - Fellowships and awards
- Fellowship Resources on the Web - Maintained by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division
- The Financial Aid Information Page - Comprehensive fellowship & financial aid
- National Academies Fellowships - Comprehensive list of fellowships for both early and middle- to late-career opportunities
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate and Minority Graduate Fellowship Programs
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowships
- National Physical Sciences Consortium - For Women and Minorities
- AT&T Labs Fellowship Program for Minorities and Women
- GEM Fellowship Program For Minorities
- Ford Predoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
- Sheila Humphreys, staff resource for EECS women students. Sheila maintains a comprehensive list of programs for graduate women
- Graduate Academic Diversity Program
Other Women's EECS Groups
- AUWICSEE Association of Undergraduate Women CS and EE Students
- Society of Women Engineers at UC Berkeley
- Women Student Societies in other schools
- Sheila Humphreys, staff resource for EECS women students. Sheila maintains a comprehensive list of programs for graduate women
Living
Housing
Safety
- UCB Campus Night Safety Shuttle and Escort
- Sexual Harassment: tips and resources
Parenting
- UCB Parents Network - Get advice from a local on a broad range of topics
- EECS Department Parent Policy
- UCB Graduate Division Memo for Graduate Student Parents
Articles and Projects: Graduate School, Careers, and Women
Graduate Student Life in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- A Six-Year Picture of Women Graduate Students in EECS by Janice Hudgings and Sheila Humphreys
- Improving the Graduate School Environment for Women in Computer Science by Soheila Bana and Soha Hassoun
- Birds-of-a-Feather Session: The Women Student's Perspective contains the results of a survey titled Life as a Female Graduate Student conducted by several WICSE members for a panel at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002. For a look at the original survey (no longer in use), click here.
- Ph.D. Student Attrition in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley and Appendix by Linda Kamas, Caroline Paxon, Amy Wang and Ricki Blau.
Work-Life Balance
- Do Babies Matter? A PDF presentation by Dean Mary Ann Mason in April 2007. For more information, see the author's website which has additional articles and take a look at The Parent Rap - a conversation with Mary Ann Mason on why babies matter by Lisa Harrington from UC Berkeley Graduate Magazine in 2007
- How the UCB CS Parents Room and the UCB Parents e-mailing list came to be by Ginger Ogle
- Women in Computer Science - Why So Few? Who Makes It Through? by Huma Dar
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- Rejecting the Academic Fast Track - A look at how doctoral students view the academic fast track and the importance of a family-friendly career
- Mythbusters: Who Says Women Can't Do Math and Science - Published on Forbes.com, this 2009 article showcases several women CEOs and discusses women leaders with science backgrounds.
- The Engineering Dropout Myth - This 2009 article suggests that engineering students are no more likely to drop out than any other discipline, and that the lower-than-desired numbers of engineering students may instead be attributed to lower transfer rates into engineering.