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WELCOME BACK STUDENTS!

NEWS

Today Show Features Big Ideas Winner BOLT Threads

The Today Show highlights BOLT threads, and how their work might one day change everything you wear. Watch here.
Breaking the STEM Ceiling for Women

In this short video, the Blum Center collaborates with Seeker to review what drives women to work in STEM, and the ways to get more women involved. Watch here.
ABC News Features Big Ideas Winner, Tabla

Watch and learn how this Big Ideas team built a diagnostic device that will revolutionize the way pneumonia, the number one killer of children, is diagnosed. Watch here.
 
Rage Against the Machine? 

Blum Center Chairwoman, Laura Tyson, writes about how intelligent machines are transforming almost every aspect of our economy. Read here.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Design Your Life
Forty graduate students from across campus enrolled in a new Development Engineering course called Designing Your Life. During this seven-week seminar, students use design thinking methods and tools to create a well-designed life, work with peers to develop a deeper sense of individual values, debunk career myths, and prototype alternative personal and professional paths.
Big Ideas Finalists Announced
On November 15, 2017, the Big Ideas Contest received more than 300 proposals, representing approximately 900 aspiring innovators, across 11 universities. A pool of nearly 300 judges from academia and industry advanced 70 of the most promising ideas to the final round of the competition. Click here to see who advanced!

AWARDS

Excellence in Advising

Blum Center Director of Student Programs, Chetan Chowdhry, and Peer Advisor, Margaux Payton, received UC Berkeley's Excellence in Advising Award, which recognizes advisers who are making a significant positive impact on the students and programs they support. Congrats to both! 

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