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Big Ideas@Berkeley Winners Visualize an End to Cervical Cancer
By Carlo David Prompted by funding and recognition from the Big Ideas@Berkeley contest, a group of Cal students headed by
August 3, 2015
Laura D’Andrea Tyson on Social Impact at Cal
By Tamara Straus Laura D’Andrea Tyson likes to see herself as a communicator and translator of complex economic ideas. But
July 30, 2015
Alice Agogino: Trailblazer in Mechanical Engineering
By Tamara Straus When historians get around to investigating the trials and triumphs of women scientists in the late 20th
July 6, 2015
Moving Beyond Benevolence and Cynicism: The Global Poverty & Practice Minor (A Graduation Speech)
By Danielle Puretz Good afternoon friends, family, faculty, and graduates. For many of us the Global Poverty courses we have
June 30, 2015
Put Innovators to Work on Making Clean Air Affordable in China: An Op-Ed from Design for Sustainable Communities Student Ming Zhang
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1826769/put-innovators-work-making-clean-air-affordable-china
June 29, 2015
For Cal Students Looking to “Do Good”: The Global Poverty and Practice Minor (A Graduation Speech)
By Shrey Goel The pre-Global Poverty & Practice Minor student is a particular, but not unique, sub-species of the Berkeley
June 18, 2015
Will student loan debt be worth it? (San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed by GPP student Amber Gonzales-Vargas)
In 2014, outstanding student loan debt for Millennials surpassed $1 trillion, making it the second largest category of household debt after mortgages.
May 26, 2015
What Are the Ethics of Humanitarian Technology? An Interview with Blum Center Postdoc Imran Ali in Engineering for Change
How to define a strategy focused on user needs and impact
May 18, 2015
Making History: Blum Center Director of Student Programs Sean Burns Profiled in the East Bay Express
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/making-history/Content?oid=4260987
May 15, 2015
The Double Burden of Malnutrition: An Interview with Janet King
By Tamara Straus There is a quotation on the website of the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) that sums
May 13, 2015
Smartphone Video Microscope Automates Detection of Parasites in Blood
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/05/06/video-cellscope-automates-detection-of-parasites/
May 7, 2015
The Ultimate Innovation Jam: Big Ideas@Berkeley Announces 2014-2015 Contest Winners
The Ultimate Innovation Jam: Big Ideas@Berkeley Announces 2014-2015 Contest Winners
May 7, 2015
Hand-To-Hand: Human Rights Accompanier Kaya Allan Sugerman
By Sean Burns There are places in the world where, if you are born into a tradition of subsistence farming
May 6, 2015
More Than Hardware: Challenges in Education Technology in Africa
By Sybil Lewis In 2012, the Inter-American Development Bank concluded that children in Peru receiving computers from the American nonprofit
April 22, 2015
The Road from CalCAP: Can the University of California Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2025?
By Tamara Straus Ten years ago, Scott Zimmermann left a career as an oil industry engineer to attend law school
April 22, 2015
A Pattern Searcher from Cal: Rebecca Hui Connects Art, Cows, and Urban Development
By Sybil Lewis During her sophomore year, Rebecca Hui was still wrestling with her decision not to attend art school—and
April 17, 2015
Down to the Wire on Big Ideas@Berkeley’s IT for Society Competition
By Andrea Guzman On April 10, the seven finalist teams in the Information Technology for Society category of this year’s
April 15, 2015
The Measurement Revolution: An Interview with Temina Madon
By Tamara Straus Temina Madon is executive director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), whose mission is
March 31, 2015
