By Tamara Straus On October 10 at the first Blum Center Faculty Luncheon devoted to “Digital Transformation of Development,” Michael
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The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading funder of invention in service of social and economic change, and the Blum Center
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By Nicole Rangel College graduates with interdisciplinary and hands-on skills are in demand in today’s job market. Because they have
By S. Shankar Sastry Today, access to water, energy, health care, and financial services remain the greatest challenges to alleviation
By Tamara Straus What does it take to help hard-to-employ people in the Bay Area find steady, decently paying jobs?
By Veena Narashiman ’2020 Originally a portmanteau of the words hack and marathon, a hackathon typically occurs over a day
By Tamara Straus For the Pinoleville Pomo Nation of Ukiah, California, collaboration has not historically been a word used to
By Veena Narashiman An injured soldier is rushed to a field hospital and is bleeding out. A surgeon needs to
Blum Center Education Director Alice Agogino has been named winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and
