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
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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
Microsoft’s James Bernard on the Intersection of Education, Technology, and Development
By Tamara Straus James Bernard is senior director of global strategic partnerships for the education group at Microsoft, where his
March 24, 2015
Daniel Zoughbie’s Contagious Model for Public Health
By Tamara Straus Among the global health reports that keep Daniel Zoughbie up at night is a World Economic Forum
March 20, 2015
Generation Innovation: Sarvottam Salvi’s Pivot to Development Economics
By Sybil Lewis When Sarvottam Salvi came to UC Berkeley in 2011, he was intent on double majoring in chemical
March 9, 2015
Eat.Think.Design: A Public Health Course for the Startup Generation
By Tamara Straus For the creators of the UC Berkeley course Eat.Think.Design, two things are certain. First, the United States
February 24, 2015
36 UC Berkeley Students Make “Commitments to Action” for 2015 Clinton Global Initiative University
By Andrea Guzman The Blum Center for Developing Economies is supporting 36 ambitious UC Berkeley’s students to attend the Clinton
February 20, 2015
A Cross Sector Exchange on Governance and Digital Technology
By Sybil Lewis As part of a 10-day program on “Leadership in the Digital Economy,” co-sponsored by the National Democratic
February 19, 2015
Generation Innovation: Ashley Tsai on Tropical Disease Research and Eradication
By Andrea Guzman In spring 2013 Ashley Tsai, a UC Berkeley Bioengineering and Material Science major and Global Poverty &
February 18, 2015
From Student to Staff: Five Questions for Anh-Thi Le
Anh-Thi Le joined the Blum Center in September 2013 as a program coordinator for the Development Impact Lab after graduating
February 13, 2015
UC Berkeley Science Shop: Connecting Community to University for Research
By Sybil Lewis When Karen Andrade, a PhD student in the School of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, came to
February 12, 2015
