SACEPI Poverty Action Day Focused on Student Food Insecurity
Veena Narashiman ‘2020 According to a December 2017 report of the University of California Global Food Initiative, 44 percent of UC undergraduates experience some type of food
Veena Narashiman ‘2020 According to a December 2017 report of the University of California Global Food Initiative, 44 percent of UC undergraduates experience some type of food
In international development circles, the application of machine learning to monitor and alleviate poverty has become a much discussed aspiration. However, Joshua Blumenstock, assistant professor at the
San Jose Mercury News The 25 students enrolled in UC Berkeley’s newest class are shooting for more this semester than a good grade. In addition to earning
In 1990, at the age of 20, Kara Nelson found herself in a refugee camp in Zimbabwe, just months before the independence government lifted a 10-year ban
In July 2014, a series of natural gas explosions ripped apart Kaohsiung, a Taiwanese city where Po Jui “Ray” Chiu, MEng ’14 (BIOE) had lived with relatives
When Maria Artunduaga won a University of California award in 2017 for her team’s technology to manage pulmonary disease, she noted a critical factor in the victory: contest-organized mentorship
By Veena Narashiman ‘2020 Education has long been considered a means to move out of poverty. Edtech—teaching and learning that makes use of technology—has in recent years
Shankar Sastry Two thousand and eighteen has been called a watershed moment in global poverty reduction. It was the year—according to two major analyses—that more than half
When Will Tarpeh was an undergraduate at Stanford University, he didn’t know if it was possible to be a research engineer who works in the developing world.
“They work in huts with mud floors, shacks with crumbling roofs, and if they are lucky, a semi-concrete structure that may survive this year’s monsoon floods. They are
By Lisa Bauer Ann Mei Chang, former chief innovation officer at USAID and former senior engineering director at Google, thinks that mission-driven organizations should act more like
By Lisa Bauer Founded in 2005 at UC Berkeley, Big Ideas has become one of the largest and most diverse student innovation competitions in the country. The
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