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)
  • Academic Intern Appointments
  • 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
  • Scholarships and Grants for Women - Large listing of scholarships and grants
  • Helping Women in Stem - List of scholorships for graduate school
  • 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

  Undergraduate Resources

  • beehive Online appointment and advising system
  • SURF Program Summer undergraduate research fellowships
  • URAP Undergraduate research apprentice program
  • Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholorships

  Living

  Housing

  • UCB Housing Office
  • Craigslist East Bay
  • Move.com

  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

  Other

  • Name Change at UCB
  • Advice on your early career - slides from Brenda Liu

  Articles and Projects: Graduate School, Careers, and Women

  Graduate Student Life in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • 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
  • • 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.