Invitation: Undergraduate Discovery Experiences, March and April Events

March 14, 2017

Dear Campus Community,

We invite you to join us in a series of Spring 2017 open forums focused on a campus wide initiative to foster undergraduate discovery experiences. The broad term “discovery experience” intentionally references a wide range of immersive learning projects - from substantial research experiences and artistic production to entrepreneurial initiatives and community-engaged projects. Many of our undergraduates already participate in such discovery experiences, and we aspire for all Berkeley undergraduates to do so.

Toward this goal, we invite faculty, staff, undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs to participate in discussion forums and provide feedback on this initiative. How can we best define, catalyze, administer, fund and mentor such experiences?

Concept documents are available at the link below to stimulate discussion at the forums. If you are unable to attend, please submit any ideas you may have via this link. Each forum is open to all campus members, but priority will be given to the relevant constituent in the event of limited space.

Faculty Forums:

March 22, Wednesday 10am - noon, Sibley Auditorium

March 29, Wednesday 2pm - 4pm, Sibley Auditorium

Staff Forum:

April 11, Tuesday 2:45pm - 4:45pm, Banatao Auditorium

Undergraduate Student Forum:

April 12, Wednesday 2pm - 4pm, Sibley Auditorium

Graduate Student and Postdoc Forum:

April 14, Friday 9am - 11am, Banatao Auditorium

To download the concept documents, RSVP, and/or submit feedback please visit: http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/undegraddiscovery

We hope to see you at one of these upcoming forums.

Regards,

Catherine P. Koshland, Vice Chancellor, Undergraduate Education
A. Paul Alivisatos, Vice Chancellor for Research

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