<p>Does anyone know why Berkeley is having funding problems in the sciences/maths (while other UC schools are not necessarily also having issues)?</p>
<p>I hear they couldn’t afford to interview their bio students (interviews are pretty near standard for bio programs).</p>
<p>where did u hear that?</p>
<p>From a student who was accepted there for bio.</p>
<p>Obviously there’s a big budget crunch everywhere with funding from NIH being so little over the last few years, but Berkeley seems to be extra-extreme.</p>
<p>Also, their math program is accepting people to Ph.D. but without funding (you can find the posts on gradcafe/whogotin/etc.).</p>
<p>seriously though, they are having funding problems.</p>
<p>mario— hahahaha. Yeah, so they are having problems… I’m really curious as to why? (I’m guess you don’t know either?)</p>
<p>One of my friends who’s in Berkeley’s MCB program was talking about going to recruitment events, so the MCB program was interviewing its bio students this year, for sure.</p>
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<p>Considering all of the new construction that’s going on on campus for new science buildings, I would hardly say that Berkeley is suffering from science funding problems.</p>
<p>i personally saw people came into my lab and interviewed w/ my PI. mcb, chem bio, chemistry, biophysics do have recruitment trips. i talked to one of hopkins biophysics professors when i was interviewing there. he told me that NIH isn’t doing as well for last 5 or 6 years. of course, all the big projects are funded, and a lot of fundings are going to initiate new people. so that puts people who stuck in between at a disadvantage to receive money. that is true pretty much everywhere. i dont know why you think berkeley is much worse than other places. plus we (as of now Berkeley) just received $500M for ten years from BP, so every lab at berkeley will try to get a piece of that pie. and berkeley has a lot of HHMI and established faculties, and extensive industry connection, i wouldn’t be too worried about funding being cut.</p>