InFEWS Fellows Take on Sustainable Development Goals
By Tamara Straus The goal of the PhD is to do original research in a specific discipline. That means in-depth
November 26, 2018
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Multiplicity Not Singularity: Ken Goldberg on the Future of Work
By Lisa Bauer Robotics Professor Ken Goldberg is the first to acknowledge the public anxiety about what automation and AI
November 26, 2018
Autodesk Foundation CEO Lynelle Cameron on Courage, Creativity, and Critical Thinking
Lynelle Cameron (Haas MBA ’01) has over 20 years of experience helping companies capitalize on market opportunities related to sustainability
November 26, 2018
Computer Science Has the Power to Impact the Lives of the 99 Percent
By Divya Nekkanti During high school, I looked unquestionably at technology leaders like Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, whose
November 9, 2018
Can There Be A National Security and Development Agenda for the U.S.? Michael Nacht at the Blum Center
By Tamara Straus On October 10 at the first Blum Center Faculty Luncheon devoted to “Digital Transformation of Development,” Michael
October 17, 2018
Big Ideas Judge Ryan Shaening Pokrasso: A Commitment to Social Impact and the Law
Ryan Shaening Pokrasso (JD ’13), a San Francisco Bay Area attorney who specializes in assisting social entrepreneurs, has been a
October 16, 2018
VIDI—Another Way to See Surgery
By Veena Narashiman ’20 Basic surgeries are far from basic. They require approximately 50 tools, which take about 2 minutes
October 15, 2018
Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Specialization? Some Thoughts on 21st-Century PhDs
By Sophi Martin When you get a PhD, you are the world’s expert in some narrow but incredibly deep scientific
October 3, 2018
MarHub: A Technology to Help Refugees Navigate Asylum
In 2016, as Sarrah Nomanbhoy was starting her MBA at the Haas School of Business, the refugee crisis in Europe
October 2, 2018
The Lemelson Foundation and the Blum Center Partner to Equip Students to Deliver on Big Ideas with a Small Environmental Footprint
The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading funder of invention in service of social and economic change, and the Blum Center
September 24, 2018
Thirty One UC Berkeley Students Headed to Clinton Global Initiative University
Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) is President Clinton’s initiative to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses
September 24, 2018
Big Ideas Winner Ricult Advancing Machine Learning for Improved Smallholder Farming
Globally, 1.5 billion people depend on small farms, which produce roughly 80 percent of the developing world’s food. Yet smallholder
September 21, 2018
Whither 21st-Century Development? A Q&A with Brad DeLong
Brad DeLong, the chief economist of the Blum Center, has spent the past four decades researching, writing about, and influencing public
September 19, 2018
Leslie Lang Tsai on Effective Philanthropy and the Chandler Foundation
How do we create enduring prosperity rather than address just the symptoms of poverty? This is a question that the
September 19, 2018
Why Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning? Assessing the Benefits and Challenges at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education
By Nicole Rangel College graduates with interdisciplinary and hands-on skills are in demand in today’s job market. Because they have
September 13, 2018
Digital Transformation of Development
By S. Shankar Sastry Today, access to water, energy, health care, and financial services remain the greatest challenges to alleviation
August 27, 2018
Sustainable Employment at the Bread Project
By Tamara Straus What does it take to help hard-to-employ people in the Bay Area find steady, decently paying jobs?
August 16, 2018
Hackathons for Good?
By Veena Narashiman ’2020 Originally a portmanteau of the words hack and marathon, a hackathon typically occurs over a day
August 16, 2018
