Elizabeth Berkes

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Elizabeth Berkes is a research associate at UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), working on the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project. She is the Project Director of an ongoing study entitled, "Understanding Undergraduate Diversity: A Study Of Race, Ethnicity And Campus Climate At UC Berkeley" funded in part by the Vice-Chancellor's Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Office of Student Research and Surveys. Dr. Berkes is the 2009 Coordinator for the 3rd Annual SERU Research Symposium to be held on May 1st on the UC Berkeley campus. Her research interests include teaching and learning in higher education science classrooms, the role of undergraduate research experiences in academic achievement, the experiences of women and minority students in post-secondary science, and religious education. Dr. Berkes draws on both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in her work. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was a Spencer Foundation Doctoral Fellow and a Doctoral Fellow at the St. Louis Center for Inquiry Science Teaching and Learning. Dr. Berkes also holds an M.S. in Plant Molecular and Cellular Genetics from UC San Diego/The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and a B.S. in General Biology from UC San Diego. Dr. Berkes is a member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the California Association for Institutional Research (CAIR), and the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST).

Recent Publications & Conference presentations include:

"Mentoring Takes a Village: Maximizing Undergraduate Research Potential by Building Cohesive Learning Communities" National Assoc. of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, Garden Grove, CA USA, 2009.

"Undergraduate Research Participation and Learning at the University of California, Berkeley" American Educational Research Assoc. Annual Conference, San Diego, CA USA, 2009.

Research Participation at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkes, E. Center for Studies in Higher Education Research and Occasional Papers Series (2008)

The Development of Undergraduate Self-Efficacy Beliefs in a Biology Laboratory Internship. National Assoc. of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA USA, 2007.

Undergraduate Laboratory Research, Persistence in Science, and the Effect of Self-Efficacy Beliefs: A Quantitative Study National Assoc. of Research in Science Teaching Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA USA, 2007.

A Contract for Excellence in Scientific Education: May I have your Signature Please? Tate, W., Malancharuvil-Berkes, E. Journal of Teacher Education. May/June 2006. 57:278-285.

Critical Discourse Analysis in Education: A Review of the Literature Rogers, R., Malancharuvil-Berkes, E., Mosley, M., Hui, D., O-Garro, G. Review of Educational Research. Fall 2005. 75(3):365-416

Seeing Eye to Eye: Faculty and Student Perspectives on an Inquiry DNA Science Course. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montréal, Quebec, CANADA, 2005.

Practicing Biology: A Critical Examination of a Biology Laboratory as a Learning Community. 1st International Critical Discourse Analysis Conference, Valencia, SPAIN, 2004.

Activation tagging in Arabidopsis. Weigel D, Ahn JH, Blazquez MA, Borevitz JO, Christensen SK, Fankhauser C, Ferrandiz C, Kardailsky I, Malancharuvil EJ, Neff MM, Nguyen JT, Sato S, Wang ZY, Xia Y, Dixon RA, Harrison MJ, Lamb CJ, Yanofsky MF, Chory J. Plant Physiol. 2000 Apr. 122(4):1003-13.

BAS1: A gene regulating brassinosteroid levels and light responsiveness in Arabidopsis. Neff MM, Nguyen SM, Malancharuvil EJ, Fujioka S, Noguchi T, Seto H, Tsubuki M, Honda T, Takatsuto S, Yoshida S, Chory J. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Dec 21. 96(26):15316-23.