Today Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Deadline Extended to March 19 The Berkeley Center for New Media is pleased to support undergraduates, in particular those undertaking our New Media Certificate, to support new media graduate students on dissertation-level research. Deadline extended to March 19. Read more
Today Support BCNM During The Big Give Your gift to BCNM helps fund cutting-edge programs like the Global Digital Infrastructure Certificate, Indigenous Technologies initiatives led by scholar and artist Talia Dixon, and Disability Justice workshops, ensuring students and researchers continue to explore how technology shapes society and how it can be built responsibly. Read more
2 days ago UC Berkeley News: Behind the scenes of Native Seas with Sophia Perez UC Berkeley News features BCNM student Sophia Perez (PhD Candidate, Geography) and the story of how she came to organize Native Seas, our weeklong series of events on the revitalization of Pacific Indigenous seafaring. Read more
5 days ago Building a Sustainable Internet: Lessons from Subsea with Nicole Starosielski In a lecture from The Brilliance of Berkeley series, UC Berkeley Film and Media professor Nicole Starosielski explores how sustainability initiatives can reshape the backbone of the internet: subsea fiber-optic cables. Read more
6 days ago Lyman Recipient: Sophia Perez BCNM is excited to announce Sophia Perez (Ph.D. candidate in Geography) as the 2026 Peter Lyman Fellow! Read more
6 days ago Claudia von Vacano Joins Science Ethics Panel BCNM Executive Committee member Claudia Natalia von Vacano jons Schmidt Science Fellows at UC Berkeley to discuss integrating ethics and equity into scientific research. Read more
02 Mar, 2026 Lyman Fellowship Report: Meg Everett and Eda Er Our 2025 Lyman Fellows Eda Er (Music Composition) and Meg Everett (Learning Sciences and Human Development) report on how their fellowships have enabled them to progress in their respective research projects on traditional Turkish Ebru (marbling) techniques and on the ways social media platforms shape schooling experiences. Read more
18 Feb, 2026 Ken Goldberg Elected to the National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced this week that four UC Berkeley faculty have been elected to its ranks, including BCNM Co-Founder Ken Goldberg. Read more
12 Feb, 2026 Call: AAPI Entertainment Career Fellowship for Undergraduates Calling all AAPI undergraduates seeking to work in entertainment! If you have an internship in Los Angeles this upcoming summer 2026, we highly encourage you to apply for this once in a lifetime opportunity to be mentored by AAPI leaders in the industry who were once in your shoes at Cal. Deadline April 6, 2026. Info Session February 24 online. Read more
11 Feb, 2026 New Media DE & Certificate Cohort — Fall 2026 We are thrilled to welcome our latest cohort of new media students. This group of interdisciplinary scholars come from Computer Science, German, Envrionmental Design, and Landscape Architecture! Read more
in 2 days Art, Tech & Culture Native Seas: Traditional Micronesian Navigators Visit the Bay Area with Students and Relatives of Papa Mau Piailug An Indigenous Technologies and New Media & Oceans week-long educational program bringing traditional navigators from the Northern Mariana Islands to the Bay Area for events including a celestial navigation presentation at the California Academy of Science's Morrison Planetarium, a keynote lecture on the UC Berkely campus, and a traditional boat-building workshop at Waterside Workshops. Read more
19 Mar, 2026 Global Digital Infrastructure A Virtual Tour of Surveillance Technology at the U.S.-Mexico Border with Dave Maass Director of Investigations, Electronic Frontier Foundation A Building a Global, Equitable, and Just Internet Infrastructure event, co-sponored by the Latinx Research Center Read more
08 Apr, 2026 Art, Tech & Culture Hitting Walls: Bounce and the Performance of Limits with Carlin Wing Associate Professor, Media Studies, Scripps College An Arts, Technology, & Culture Colloquium lecture Read more
