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
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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
A Decade of Development Engineering with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation
By Tamara Straus For the Pinoleville Pomo Nation of Ukiah, California, collaboration has not historically been a word used to
August 14, 2018
A Technology for Trauma Care
By Veena Narashiman An injured soldier is rushed to a field hospital and is bleeding out. A surgeon needs to
July 18, 2018
Alice Agogino Wins Highest U.S. Award for Mentoring
Blum Center Education Director Alice Agogino has been named winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and
July 5, 2018
June 21, 2018
Development Impact Lab Conference Speaks to Future of Engineering for Poverty Solutions
By Veena Narashiman and Blum Center News In 2013, the Blum Center and the Center for Effective Global Action founded the Development
June 13, 2018
Fighting Poverty with Big Data: A Conversation with Joshua Blumenstock
By Rachel Pizatella-Haswell, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy MPP ’18 Joshua Blumenstock is an Assistant Professor at the
June 7, 2018
April 13, 2018
Big Ideas Abroad
In February 2018, Big Ideas Contest Director, Phillip Denny, traveled to Kampala, Uganda to explore opportunities for Big Ideas expansion
March 14, 2018
Trailblazers: The Global Impact of Blum Center Female Faculty, Staff and Students
Gamechangers. Engineers. Innovators. Researchers. Entrepreneurs. These are just a few of the words that describe the outstanding women of the
March 13, 2018
But First, Water
By Morgan Hillenbrand On a typical day in the village of Mihingoni, Kenya, girls emerge at dawn, traveling down red
February 14, 2018
ABC News Features Big Ideas Winner Tabla. Watch here!
http://abc7news.com/health/new-device-may-help-diagnose-pneumonia/2434102/
January 18, 2018
