Joe Leitmann on the New Era of Disaster Risk Management
By Tamara Straus Though he admits it is macabre, Joe Leitmann is walking encyclopedia of natural disaster statistics. The 2004
December 4, 2019
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Winners of the 2019 Global Poverty & Practice Photo Contest
For the past 12 years, UC Berkeley’s Global Poverty & Practice Minor has supported 1,013 students in completing their practice
November 26, 2019
Supporting Low-Income Entrepreneurs in Nairobi
Over the past five years, SOMO has grown from a proposal submitted to the Big Ideas Contest to a viable
November 25, 2019
Suleiman Halasah: Environment as a Cross-boundary Peacebuilding Tool
Titled “Innovations and Collaboration at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems: Toward Sustainability in the Middle East,” Halasah’s talk covered his role as founder and co-director of JICCER, his solar water pumping project with Palestinian and Jordanian farmers, and the lessons he has learned about community development and environmental peacebuilding.
November 25, 2019
Providing Accessible Medical Care through Low-Cost Fracture Detection
Treating bone fractures in the developing world is increasingly difficult due to the lack of x-ray accessibility. Emily Huynh, a senior
November 5, 2019
Malaysian Minister of Finance Lim Guan Eng Visits the Blum Center
By invitation of the AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship and Development, Lim Guan Eng, Minister of Finance for Malaysia, addressed UC
October 28, 2019
In Salute and Celebration of Women Social Entrepreneurs
By Shankar Sastry At the Blum Center, women using their entrepreneurial and discipline-specific talents to start innovative projects and organizations
October 24, 2019
Environmentally Responsible Inventing
“Sustainability is something innovators don’t really think about because we are so focused on how our product is going to
October 21, 2019
Dr. Bertram Lubin to Mentor Cal Students and Focus on the Social Determinants of Health
Dr. Bertram Lubin’s 50-year career is not coming to a close. Although the former president, CEO, and research director of
October 18, 2019
Global Poverty & Practice Alumni Share Lessons Learned
Career paths are both visible and hidden to UC Berkeley students, probably because college is both a time to prepare
October 15, 2019
Blum Center Panel at San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking Symposium
Last April, the Anti-Trafficking Coalition at UC Berkeley gathered researchers and advocates from academia, industry, and the nonprofit sector to
October 14, 2019
A Project-Based Course on Collaboration, Diversity, and Design Thinking
By Jason Liu How does one bring a social impact idea from conception to reality? That question is central to
October 8, 2019
Mentoring and Marveling at Founders
There are few people as committed to judging the Big Ideas Contest as Jill Finlayson. A lifelong advocate of mentorship
October 1, 2019
Redefining Secondary School Education in Ghana
Growing up in Ghana in the 1990s and 2010s, Abraham Martey and Vicentia Gyau understood that the weak educational system
September 30, 2019
Empowering Women of Color in the Medical & Technology Field
Although Maria Artunduaga, a Colombian-born translational physician and entrepreneur, says that racial and gender bias has played a major role in
September 27, 2019
Echolocation Technology that Empowers the Blind
Darryl Diptee used to think of himself as a “closet innovator.” During his time as an officer for the U.S. Navy,
September 19, 2019
UC Big Ideas Contest joins The Rockefeller-Acumen Student Social Innovation Challenge
The Big Ideas Contest has been named one of four university social innovation competitions to be a part of The 2019-2020 Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen
September 5, 2019
Empowering Students Inside and Outside the Classroom
By Shankar Sastry How do we educate students to become lifelong learners? University professors are continually grappling with this question,
August 27, 2019
What It Means To Be First Generation LatinX in Medical School: An Interview with Leilani Gutierrez-Palominos and Karla Tlatelpa
The Blum Center reached out to Karla Tlatelpa and Leilani Gutierrez-Palominos to ask how the Global Poverty & Practice minor helped shape their understanding of and participation in the medical field.
August 27, 2019
Fletcher Lab’s Mobile Phone-based Microscope for Neglected Tropical Diseases Receives Gates Foundation Support
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a grant to Berkeley in July 2019 to support the scaled-up production of the LoaScope, a mobile phone-based microscope developed by Blum Center Chief Technologist Daniel Fletcher and researchers in his bioengineering laboratory, to enable mapping of Loa loa prevalence and intensity in Central and West Africa.
August 27, 2019
