The Berkeley Edge is a recruitment, retention and advancement program designed to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who acquire doctoral degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The program is a partner in the University of California system-wide effort (UC-AGEP) to identify, recruit, retain, and assist in advancing talented minority students to graduate school and into the professoriate.

The program is funded by the National Science Foundation's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NSF–AGEP); the MK Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI); and UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry, the Divisions of Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters & Science, the College of Engineering, the College of Natural Resources, and the Graduate Division.

Contacting the Berkeley Edge Program

• Colette Patt, Ph.D., Director
• Angela Armendariz, Ph.D., Program Manager
• The Berkeley Edge Program, NSF-AGEP
• University of California, Berkeley
• 366 LeConte Hall #7300
• Berkeley, CA 94720-7300
• Phone: 510-643-3813
• Fax: 510-643-8497
• Email: angelaa@berkeley.edu