By Tamara Straus For the creators of the UC Berkeley course Eat.Think.Design, two things are certain. First, the United States is facing a food and
By Tamara Straus August 19, 2014 | When Kurtis Heimerl applied for the PhD program in computer science at UC Berkeley, he didn’t intend to
By Carlo David The enormity of the world’s water and sanitation problems cannot be overstated. UN Water estimates that more than 3 million people die
The Big Ideas Contest has been named one of four university social innovation competitions to be a part of The 2019-2020 Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen Student Social Innovation Challenge.
By Tamara Straus In 2006, when UC Berkeley Civil Engineering Professor Ashok Gadgil began researching the possibility of removing arsenic from drinking water using electrochemistry,
