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From getting into graduate schools to landing their dream jobs, our students and alumni study and work hard to accomplish their academic and career goals. Be inspired by their successes to achieve your own career change or advancement.
The Ripple Effect of Healing Through Resilience
From day one, Amy Paulson has experienced trauma. Abandoned shortly after being born in Seoul, South Korea, Amy was then adopted by a...
2020 Personal Financial Planning Awards
This year, we virtually celebrate our annual Personal Financial Planning Awards. Hosts Brian Kozel, 2020 chair of the program’s...
Using Project Management Skills Where It Matters
After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2006 with a degree in interdisciplinary studies and no longer on a student visa, Toby Atawo moved...
History That Bears Repeating
When I first contacted Certificate Program in Writing graduate and author Bill Truran, he had just heard back from his editor about his...
Exploring California Yosemite—Somewhere You Should Go!
Yosemite National Park is one of the most famous national parks in the United States. I heard about it well before coming to UC...
How I Studied in Berkeley During the COVID-19 Quarantine
Halfway into my spring semester, chaos ensued and the Bay Area went into a shelter-in-place order. Words like ‘social distancing’...
Carmel Gacho Never Stops Learning
In her native Manila, Carmel Gacho worked as a Supervising Science Research Specialist and also as the Environmental Committee Chair at...
Ready to Take Stock in Families’ Lives
Our Certificate Program in Personal Financial Planning provides an academic path to joining the financial planning profession. Through...
Putting the PMP® to Work in Civil Engineering
Certificate Program in Project Management graduate Mark Summers is through and through a civil engineer. The field is analytical and...