GLOBE News
GLOBE 15th Anniversary
Lunch break with the GLOBE Director Dr. Matthew Sherburne
March 2, 2021
Hear from Dr. Matt and see how he pictures GLOBE’s future.
By Anthony St. George
December 18, 2020
In 2019, GLOBE launched a suite of programs (The Global Engineer) to provide students, particularly those who have never been outside of the United States, with greater global exposure. Hear Anthony talk about the recent initiatives implemented by GLOBE.
By Anthony St. George
September 15, 2020
In 2005, inspired by a new trend in global academic expansion, Dean Richard Newton launched The Dado and Maria Banatao Center for Global Learning and Outreach from Berkeley Engineering—GLOBE to extend Berkeley Engineering’s research and education experts around the world.
Alumni Spotlight
Career advice from Angelika ’24, Ph.D. candidate at CEE
March 2, 2021
Hear academic and career advice from Angelika, a doctoral student at the Department of Civil Engineering. She is an alumna of the GLOBE visiting student program, Fall 2017.
Studying abroad remotely during the pandemic.
February 22, 2021
Hear the exchange experience from Jason Chen, studying Material Science Engineering remotely from Taiwan.
Learn more about ENG 187: Global Engineering with Ella Tyler’22
December 9, 2020
Hear the experiences from Ella Tyler, Class of 2022, and past student of ENG 187, about her takeaways from her class
View the World Differently from the lenses of GLOBE Ambassador, Abdoul Aziz’ 22
November 18, 2020
Hear the experiences from Abdoul Aziz, Class of 2020, and participant for the GLOBE Ambassador Program 2019, about his trip to Singapore and the Philippines.
Ding-Yuan Chen, Berkeley-Taiwan Biomedical (BTB) Scholar ’20
October 2, 2020
To help new GLOBE Entrepreneurship Visiting Scholars navigate their experience here at UC Berkeley, we spoke with Ding-Yuan Chen ’20, a Taiwan Berkeley-Taiwan Biomedical fellow, about his one-year entrepreneurship experience in GLOBE.
Career Advice for Undergraduates from GLOBE Alumnus, Zeyuan Lin
October 3, 2020
Hear graduate school and career advice from GLOBE visiting student program alumnus, Zeyuan Lin’19 who is now a software engineer at Oracle.
Center Updates
February 16th, 2021
Last Thursday, we had our Lunar New Year Gathering via Zoom with our visiting scholars and their host faculty to celebrate the Chinese New Year and catch up with everyone. The event was also a farewell for our Berkeley Taiwan Biomedical (BTB) visiting scholar I-Chien Jan, who has finished his one-year visiting scholar program with us. We sincerely wish all of our students, staff, partners and their loved ones to excel and thrive during this Year of the Ox and time for new beginnings. We hope to hear great updates from you in the coming year and beyond!
Congratulations to our Fall 2020 GLOBE Online students!
December 14, 2020
4 months ago, we welcomed 22 students from 6 universities into our first cohort for GLOBE Online. We sincerely congrats all our students for completing their coursework despite the 16-hour time difference and challenges from online learning. Huge congratulations!
2021 Virtual Summer Engineering Research Internship in Singapore Application Available Now!
December 10, 2020
Summer Engineering Research Internship for US Students (SERIUS) 2021 at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore will take place from May 17 to July 9, 2021.
November 2, 2020
The GLOBE Online Spring 2021 Application is open now until December 18, 2020. Join us this Spring with the Online Undergraduate Visiting Student Program. Stay wherever you are, receive course credits, and expand your horizon from the World’s Top 2 Engineering School remotely.
August 25, 2020
This fall, we are pleased to welcome 22 visiting students from Tongji University, National Tsing Hua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Tsinghua University to participate in our “Globe Online Program”!
GLOBE launches a new diversity and inclusion Program
August 8, 2020
GLOBE is pleased to announce that we are partnering with Howard University to launch a new diversity and inclusion program called “GLOBE Include” in fall 2020.
August 8, 2020
In August, we held an online reunion with our GLOBE Ambassadors who went on a week-long trip with us to the Philippines and Singapore in May 2019.
July 23, 2020
Berkeley Engineering is offering Fall 2020 Live Engineering courses online to all Engineering students and professionals.