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We are excited to announce that GMS is offering summer research funding to 11 GMS graduate students. The recipients of this year’s summer funding are: Heba Al Najada (Architecture), Priscila Coli (City & Regional Planning), Yanin Kramsky (City & Regional Planning), Bridget Martin (Geography), James Mizes (City & Regional Planning), Jesse Rodenbiker (Geography), Nicole Rosner […]

Former GMS Co-Director Richard Walker (Professor Emeritus, Geography) will be giving a number of talks on his new book, Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area (PM Press, Oakland). ◊UC CAMPUS:  April 26, 4 pm @ IRLE, 2521 Channing Ave. (just east of Telegraph) Plus […]

GMS is pleased to announce a competition for summer research grants of up to $5000.  Applications are due March 7th, 2018. Grants are available to students currently enrolled in the Designated Emphasis.  While applications for pre-dissertation research are especially encouraged, all projects are eligible.  Please see the Funding section of the website for application instructions.  

Original article by Will Kane; available at Berkeley News. ——– A professor of architecture at the College of Environmental Design, Crysler has spent his career examining the space and politics of cultural difference. But he doesn’t get lost in the academics: Crysler regularly invites top thinkers and experts to symposiums about race, gender and sexuality […]

GMS 200: An Introduction to Theories, Histories, and Methods This Spring 2018, Joan Walker (Civil Engineering) and Alison Post (Political Science) will be co-teaching Global Metropolitan Studies 200, the gateway course for the Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies. The course provides an accessible introduction to many disciplines that help us understand urban systems, both […]

By Robert Sanders, Media relations; original story from Berkeley News, available here.   Randy Howard Katz, who helped develop many of the wireless tools and fast, reliable computer storage we take for granted today, has been appointed vice chancellor for research at UC Berkeley. Katz, the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in the Department of […]

The Global Metropolitan Studies Lecture Series 2017-2018 is now announced. Please join us for public talks and other related events around our guests: Liesbet Hooghe, UNC Chapel Hill Kagure Wamunyu, Oxford University Eleonora Pasotti, UC Santa Cruz Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania Click to download the Lecture Series poster.  

The Social Science Matrix and GMS will be co-sponsoring a research initiative called The Berkeley Infrastructure Initiative: Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Policy Research in the Public Interest. The initiative will bring together faculty and students with a shared interest in the planning, governance, finance, design, development, economics, and environmental effects of infrastructure. This program will be run […]

GMS would like to congratulate the three student winners of the GMS 2017 Urban Photo Contest! With the addition of these fantastic images, we also announce the launch of the new GMS website: http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/ The new GMS website will feature images of Havana by Isabella Warren-Mohr, San Francisco by Ashley Boots, and New Orleans by […]