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Hygiene Heroes: UC Berkeley Team Promotes Hand-Washing Curriculum to Combat Preventable Diseases
By Carlo David A group of students, led by Professor David Levine of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, are
October 5, 2015
GPP Interim Director Clare Talwalker Reflects on Katherine Boo’s Visit to Berkeley
Another music for poverty alleviation
September 30, 2015
Big Ideas Winners Aim to Digitally Track Vaccinations in Rural India
Big Ideas Winners Aim to Digitally Track Vaccinations in Rural India
September 29, 2015
Blum Center Fosters a New Kind of Development Professional: The Development Engineer (DevEx News)
https://www.devex.com/news/a-new-kind-of-development-professional-the-development-engineer-86919
September 25, 2015
We Care Solar is awarded US$1 million United Nations Energy Grant to expand the use of life-saving “Solar Suitcase” (United Nations News)
https://poweringthefuture.un.org/news/awardceremony2015
September 16, 2015
Blum Center-Supported We Care Solar Wins $1 Million UN Award
We Care Solar, the Blum Center-supported nonprofit, has won the United Nations’ first “Powering the Future We Want: Recognizing Innovative
September 14, 2015
The Problem with “Help” in Global Development (Commentary by DevEng student Julia Kramer in the Stanford Social Innovation Review)
http://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_problem_with_help_in_global_development
September 14, 2015
Berkeley Lab Water Technology Boomerangs from Bangladesh to California
By Tamara Straus In 2006, when UC Berkeley Civil Engineering Professor Ashok Gadgil began researching the possibility of removing arsenic
September 8, 2015
The Berkeley Difference: Katya Cherukumilli’s Path to Problem Solving
By Sean Burns Katya Cherukumilli arrived at Cal with a calling. Having spent the first seven years of her life
August 20, 2015
Ticora Jones: The Federal Government Scientist for Global Development
http://dil.berkeley.edu/ticora-jones-the-federal-governments-scientist-for-global-development/
August 14, 2015
GridWatch: Using Cell Phone Sensors to Detect Power Outages
GridWatch: Using Cell Phone Sensors to Detect Power Outages
August 10, 2015
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
