The Berkeley Edge Conference is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students who are competitively eligible for Berkeley’s Ph.D. programs in science, math and engineering to apply to UC Berkeley. The 12th Annual Conference is sponsored by the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, the National Science Foundation's Innovation through Institutional Integration program, and Sandia National Laboratories
To qualify, you must be nominated by a faculty member. If you're interested in applying, please email Dean Ivan Favila at ifavila@illinois.edu and let him know. If you're chosen, UC Berkeley will provide all travel, lodging, and meals.
The application deadline is September 26, 2011 for faculty, research scientists, and other mentors to recommend students for the Berkeley Edge Conference 2011. This is also the deadline for recommended students to complete their applications online. Students will be informed of their application status in early-October.
For general information about the conference please visit http://ls.berkeley.edu/bep/conference.
Students can access the online application directly at: http://ls.berkeley.edu/bep/student-application. The application deadline is September 26, 2011.
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