Research & Ideas

UC Berkeley program allows undergraduate students to work with on-campus researchers

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According to Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program manager Stefanie Ebeling, URAP is the biggest campuswide program for undergraduate research.

UC Berkeley’s Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, or URAP, offers students a direct working line to research with faculty and other on-campus researchers, which many students said allowed them to explore their academic and professional interests.
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Finding my way

Launching into Limbo

If freshman year of college was a cloud of water vapor, then my recent family vacation can only be described as a block of glacial ice that’s been buried at the bottom of my freezer for the past 11 years.
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Mentorship 2019, Strikeout

A Golden Bear sits in an office with several degrees on the wall for various languages.

Merci beaucoup, Madame Lacascade

Between the grammatical corrections and point deductions, Madame Lacascade always managed to squeeze in an “excellent sentence” or a coveted “très bien.” Through her own indisputable passion, she instilled in me not only a love of French but one of language itself.
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