Janene Vernard
Mechanical Engineering Director of Student Services
- Email:
- jcarolm@berkeley.edu
Janene graduated from UC Berkeley in 2007 with degrees in History and Ethnic Studies. She began her career at Berkeley in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, advising master’s and PhD students and supporting the early development of the department’s Fifth-Year Master’s and MEng programs. She later joined the School of Public Health, where she managed the MPH, academic master’s, and doctoral programs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Janene eventually made her way back across campus to the Department of Economics, serving as Assistant Director of Graduate Student Services and advising students in the department’s doctoral program. She then joined the Fung Institute as Associate Director of Student Affairs and Program Operations, overseeing the MEng program across seven engineering departments as well as the emerging online Master of Advanced Study in Engineering (MAS-E) program.
Janene then joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as Director of Student Services, where she leads a fantastic team supporting the department’s undergraduate and graduate programs and oversees student services operations across ME and Aerospace Engineering.
A Southern California native, Janene loves traveling, cooking, and taking advantage of everything the state has to offer—from the mountains and the sea to the desert and city life. After spending most of her adult life in the Bay Area, she occasionally forgets that she can’t technically claim to be a local.