Students

Creating connections: Student organizations help peers find professional opportunities

December 4, 2017
As company internship recruitment begins earlier every year, students find themselves searching for opportunities prior to the start of a semester. In addition to the campus hosting multiple events, student organizations are also helping their peers find personal and professional development opportunities by connecting with companies through information sessions, weekly workshops, speaker panels, and more.

Bank of the West scholarship recipients recognized for their academic and athletic pursuits

February 1, 2019

 Nina Schank and Tuomas KaukolahtiCal Athletics recently celebrated the 2018-19 Bank of the West student-athlete scholarship recipients — Nina Schank and Tuomas Kaukolahti — during the 2019 Cal Athletics Scholarship Banquet. The student-athletes were selected based on their commitment to making Cal a better place, while also exhibiting optimism and innovation in...

Berkeley graduate student benefits from Peet’s “Coffee for a Cause” program

August 15, 2019

Photo of Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya

It was 9 a.m. on a Saturday – the last day of the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) conference – and Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya was feeling anxious.

Nedzhvetskaya had presented at student-led conferences before, but this would be her first time presenting at a...

Agreement with Bank of the West to benefit student programs

October 29, 2015

Image of male and female Food Pantry studentsThe 10-year agreement, which establishes Bank of the West as the “Official Bank of UC Berkeley,” will provide the campus with more than $17 million in revenue to support merit-based scholarships and paid summer internships for students, as well as funding for priority programs like Bears for Financial Success and the UC Berkeley Food...

How students helped shape the banking agreement

October 29, 2015

Anthony Abril and Raj Bhargava, UC Berkeley undergraduates, played a key role in shaping the campus’s agreement with Bank of the West.Anthony Abril and Raj Bhargava, UC Berkeley undergraduates, played a key role in shaping the campus’s agreement with Bank of the West. The pair sat down recently with Berkeley News to talk about students’ stake in the relationship and their own role...