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Home > News > Berkeley Engineering celebrates 2024 mentoring award winners
McLaughlin Hall, College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.McLaughlin Hall, College of Engineering. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Berkeley Engineering celebrates 2024 mentoring award winners

Recipients recognized by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division for helping students succeed
March 27, 2024 by Marni Ellery

The UC Berkeley Graduate Division has announced the 12 recipients of this year’s mentoring awards. These awards recognize select faculty and students for their “outstanding commitment to helping UC Berkeley graduate students succeed academically, professionally and personally.”

The 2024 list of honorees includes five distinguished faculty and students from the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and of Civil and Environmental Engineering:

2024 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards
Late-Career Faculty Winner

  • Allen Goldstein, professor, Departments of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and of Civil and Environmental Engineering

2024 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs

  • Kara Nelson, Blum Chancellor’s Chair in Development Engineering and professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Lisa Yan, assistant teaching professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

2024 Outstanding Graduate Peer Mentor Award

  • Myoungseok Kim, Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
  • Federico Mora Rocha, Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Award recipients will be honored Wednesday, April 17, 5 – 7 p.m. at the Alumni House, Toll Room.

Topics: Honors & awards, Civil engineering, Computer science, Development engineering, Electrical engineering, Faculty honors, Students
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