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Serving Our Students
Fellowships and Grants
During the 2002-03 academic year, IES continued its long-standing practice of
funding faculty and graduate student research.
View a list of fellowship
and
grant
recipients...
View
the 2001 IES Predissertation recipients report on how they used their
grants to pursue
their research goals...
Organized activities for students
IES funded undergraduate research on European affairs. On behalf of the European
Union Center, IES put together teams of students on each of the participating
campuses of the University of California to research and write on topics related
to the theme: "Challenges and Prospects for the European Union in a Globalizing
World." Envisioned as an intercampus undergraduate seminar, the participating
campuses simultaneously offered courses on the issues relevant to that theme
and designed the curriculum to encourage student-initiated research and presentations.
Having completed individual projects, students from each participating
institution and their faculty mentors gathered for an interactive conference
focusing on
European issues and student research. 38 students from nine campuses participated
in the conference. The conference was open to members of the UC system and the
Claremont Colleges only. UC Berkeley students prepared papers on topics ranging
from EU immigration. social, and foreign policy; to Turkey's prospects for EU
membership; to issues of EU enlargement. Beverly Crawford met
with these students weekly during the spring semester 2003 to prepare students
for their conference
presentations. Participants were selected on a competitive basis by a committee
composed of members of the University of California faculty and faculty associated
with the EU Center at Scripts College. The conference was held at the European
Union Center of California at Scripts College on April 24-25, 2003. It permitted
students from the entire UC system to interact with each other, with Scripts
students, and with international faculty. Students presented and discussed their
research in a panel format. All papers will be collected on a CD and distributed
to conference participants.
View the conference program and a full conference report...
The Berkeley European Network
IES co-sponsors the "Berkeley European Network," a group of
graduate students organized to promote understanding and knowledge of
Europe and its environments
including business, academics, politics and culture through academic, business
and social events. The group also serves as a local platform at UC Berkeley to
meet Europeans -- and other people who have an interest in Europe -- and build
a network among them. The group also provides opportunity to establish relationships
between European organizations and the community at UC Berkeley who are interested
in Europe. The group sponsors events, lectures, workshops, and a monthly newsletter.
The newsletter grew from 10 to 315 subscriptions in this academic year.
Course on EU and US agricultural and environmental policy
In the fall of 2002, IES supported an upper division undergraduate course
on the economics of environmental and agricultural policy in the United
States and
Europe, taught by Professor Gorden Rausser. The course presented
analytical tools -- including welfare economics, institutional economics, information
theory and
trade -- and then used the tools to analyze the policies in the two regions.
Sixteen students were enrolled in the course.
In late November, Professor Rausser hosted an evening seminar on the
recent changes
in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. Dr. Timothy Josling from
Stanford spoke on the proposed CAP reforms and the influence of the WTO negotiations.
Although
the seminar was primarily for the students in the course, it was advertised more
broadly in the College of Natural Resources, and a number of graduate students
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