Electrification for “Under Grid” Households in Rural Kenya: Five Questions for Ken Lee
By Sybil Lewis In the summer of 2012, an interdisciplinary research group at UC Berkeley set out to study the
October 21, 2014
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Generation Innovation: Sergio Venegas Marin’s Quest to Influence Public Policy
By Andrea Guzman In 2010, Sergio Venegas Marin, an ambitious student at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, was aiming to
October 16, 2014
A New “OnRamp” Class for Social Innovators
By Tamara Straus Some people have called it the personalization of higher education. Others see it as the natural evolution
October 14, 2014
#Global POV: Can Experts Solve Poverty?
Generation Y is on a mission to solve global poverty. A group of professors at the University of California, Berkeley
October 10, 2014
The Challenges of Development Economics: An Interview with the Blum Center’s Kweku Opoku-Agyemang
By Tamara Straus Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, a postdoctoral fellow at the Blum Center, believes that one of the greatest downfalls in
October 9, 2014
Engineering Improvements for the World
(Published in the Washington Post) By Lina Nilsson and Shankar Sastry In labs around the world, a new generation of
October 5, 2014
Free Speech Movement Legacies and the Promise of Community Engaged Scholarship
By Sean Burns While the 1964 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley focused on one central demand—the freedom of students
October 1, 2014
Makerere University Team First Africans To Win Big Ideas Contest
By Tamara Straus Growing up in a rural town in Kyankwanzi District, Uganda, Moses Rurangwa witnessed an epidemic of preventable
September 16, 2014
Three Questions for Peter Jerram About Open Data and Scientific Publishing
By Kate Fenimore An occasional series with Blum Center and Development Impact Lab faculty, staff, students, visitors, and friends. Peter
September 15, 2014
Five Questions for Mattia Prayer Galletti About Agricultural Development
Mattia P. Galletti is lead technical specialist for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a Rome-based agency of the
September 12, 2014
Three Questions for Ananya Roy About Community Development
An occasional series with Blum Center faculty, staff, students, visitors, and friends Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional
September 10, 2014
Big Ideas Turns Nine
By Jenna Hahn In 2006, Big Ideas @ Berkeley was launched to support multidisciplinary teams of UC Berkeley students interested
September 2, 2014
Why I Do Development Work
By Nikki Brand August 26, 2014 | Four days after graduation, I found myself on a plane to Guatemala. I
August 26, 2014
What Makes Student Innovation Contests Worthwhile?
By Jessica Ernandes Naecker August 21, 2014 | Since University of Texas at Austin held the first business plan competition
August 25, 2014
Kurtis Heimerl Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35
By Tamara Straus August 19, 2014 | When Kurtis Heimerl applied for the PhD program in computer science at UC
August 19, 2014
Blum Center Lecturers Receive Chancellor’s Public Service Awards
This past May, two Blum Center affiliated lecturers, Dr. Sean Burns and Dr. Khalid Kadir, were each awarded Chancellor’s Awards
August 13, 2014
Generation Innovation: Gardner Fellow Kati Hinman Fights for Community Empowerment
By Andrea Guzman and Rachel Voss Kati Hinman, a recent graduate of the Blum Center for Developing Economies’ Global Poverty
July 8, 2014
Estrella Sainburg
Is currently working in Chiapas, Mexico with Fundación Cántaro Azul focusing on issues with water filtration, treatment, & drinking water distribution
July 1, 2014
Here Versus There: Reflections from a “Voluntourist”
(Published in the San Francisco Chronicle) By Brenna Alexander Despite the altruistic lure of international volunteering, those seeking meaningful work
June 13, 2014
GPP Students Engage With Challenges of Poverty Action at Home and Abroad
By Abby Madan and Rachel Voss This summer, 49 UC Berkeley undergraduates in the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor
June 13, 2014
