A Course that Designs for Sustainable Communities

Three of the 11 members of the Yankho women's co-op (left), the backbone of and inspiration for Umodzi, along with Brian Ndongera (third from right), an advisor to Umodzi, Mathews Tisatayane (second from right), founder and president, and Sean Mandell, co-founder and CEO. (Umodzi photo)

News

From Malawi to Berkeley and Back: How M.DevEng Student Mathews Tisatayane Achieved His Dream of Bringing Sustainable Development to His Hometown

Tisatayane had been a teacher, a nurse, and an unsuccessful social entrepreneur. Now, he’s using development engineering to provide his fellow Malawians clean energy and an opportunity to free themselves from economic hardship.

December 23, 2022

Public Health 112: Global Health Webcast

Interested in Global Health? Hoping to take Public Health 112: Global Health this semester? Sponsored by the Blum Center for Developing Economies and led by

March 3, 2010

DevEng

Jennifer Doudna on the Pandemic Year: The Power of Mission-Driven Science

In this WSJ op-ed, Nobel prize-winning CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna describes UC Berkeley’s research response to the pandemic, including the creation of a new rapid, point-of-need COVID test developed with Blum Center Research Director and CellScope inventor Dan Fletcher.

March 23, 2021

The Problem with “Help” in Global Development (Commentary by DevEng student Julia Kramer in the Stanford Social Innovation Review)

http://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_problem_with_help_in_global_development

September 14, 2015

InFEWS Fellow Alana Siegner on Urban Agriculture and Food Security

September 5, 2018

A Course that Designs for Sustainable Communities

More Articles

From Malawi to Berkeley and Back: How M.DevEng Student Mathews Tisatayane Achieved His Dream of Bringing Sustainable Development to His Hometown

Public Health 112: Global Health Webcast

Jennifer Doudna on the Pandemic Year: The Power of Mission-Driven Science

The Problem with “Help” in Global Development (Commentary by DevEng student Julia Kramer in the Stanford Social Innovation Review)

InFEWS Fellow Alana Siegner on Urban Agriculture and Food Security

Contact:

Connect:

Subscribe:

© 2021 Blum Center for Developing Economies

Design by Joseph Kim