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Congrats to Master of Development Engineering @ UC Berkeley Professor Amy Pickering on her NIH grant to study a novel clean-water intervention in Kenyan healthcare facilities that would reduce antibiotic-resistant microorganisms in mothers and their newborns: ce.berkeley.edu/news/3066

.Master of Development Engineering @ UC Berkeley Professor Ashok Gadgil's invention brought clean water to millions. In Salon, he argues for not rewriting a key law that made this huge humanitarian achievement possible. salon.com/2024/12/24/my-…

The Blum Center celebrates the life of President Jimmy Carter, who advanced solutions to global conflicts, championed human rights, and, at the The Carter Center, continued to “Wage Peace, Fight Disease, Build Hope” for people everywhere: blumcenter.berkeley.edu/thank-you-pres…

Co-coordinated by Economics and Master of Development Engineering @ UC Berkeley Prof. Clair Brown, the UC Berkeley Climate and Society Center at IRLE UC Berkeley grounds policy recommendations in rigorous research and community input in service of climate resiliency and environmental justice: irle.berkeley.edu/climate-and-so…

Congratulations to Master of Development Engineering @ UC Berkeley Class of 2024's @AnurikaJoshua on winning the I-House Berkeley Executive Director Community Impact Award! ihouse.berkeley.edu/alumni/alumni-…

And the results are in! The 2024 Development Engineering Photography Contest invited students to submit photos and videos that show what DevEng means to them and to capture the impact of their work over the summer through creative media: blumcenter.berkeley.edu/visualizing-im…

We have our finalists! Out of 150+ apps, here are the final 15 student teams of the 2024–25 Big Ideas Contest—from an AI-powered device to restore Alzheimer’s patients’ autonomy to a sustainable medical product replacing single-use plastics in healthcare: bigideascontest.org/2025/02/03/uc-…

Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Hausler on her election to National Academy of Engineering! Dr. Hausler was recognized "for transformational impact as an international social entrepreneur, saving lives by building sustainable communities with natural hazard resilience." nae.edu/331605/NAENewC…

Attention, Berkeley undergrads! Join a community of students seeking to make an impact on poverty and inequality! The Global Poverty and Practice minor is hosting an info session: This Friday, 12pm, Zoom RSVP here: forms.gle/y8fozsdyyHkkRP…

The latest from the chair of our board of trustees: In CMR, Laura Tyson breaks down how public & private capital markets innovate to fund investments to drive the transition to a net zero economy—& the importance of policies to galvanize them: cmr.berkeley.edu/2025/02/67-2-c…

Ashmita Kumar and Code Blue — her Big Ideas Contest-winning innovation — are piloting her AI-powered in-phone stroke-detection tech with UC San Francisco and are appearing this week at the Atlantic Coast Conference InVenture Prize: news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/27/wit…

"If the impact part is missing from a business, it’s not very sustainable.” CarbonSustain — a venture by Paul Bryzek, a 2023 Big Ideas Contest winner — helps small and medium businesses with the onerous work of tracking their carbon emissions: alumni.berkeley.edu/paul-bryzek-wi…

For communities, most policy standards for "modern energy" are a connection to an electrical grid. But in a new paper in Nature Cities, Prof. Dan Kammen and colleagues show a simple connection does not equal affordable, reliable electricity: nature.com/articles/s4428…

Congratulations to Master of Development Engineering @ UC Berkeley Prof. Alice M. Agogino on winning an inaugural Berkeley Climate Action Proof-of-Concept Award for climate-focused multimodal methane (CH4) sensing! bakarclimate.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkel…

Climate change is expected to make sub-Saharan Africa warmer and drier. In Nature Communications, Amy Pickering & co. explore how this affects the burden of collecting water—with impacts for health, hygiene, income, and gender equity: nature.com/articles/s4146…

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The goal, Raghuwanshi said, was to “really understand the context and not push your assumptions on people”—not to parachute in and solve problems “but learn from Kasigau's residents what they want” help with and co-develop community-oriented solutions: blumcenter.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-de…

“We were interested in understanding the role of the household environment in bacterial transmission to humans,” said Prof. Amy Pickering. “And our findings showed that water is actually one of the most important transmission pathways for pathogenic and drug-resistant bacteria.”

And this year's Big Ideas Contest grand prize winner is... AgriSolar! Their mobile and scalable solar-powered irrigation system designed for Nigerian smallholder farmers’ accessibility and affordability. Read more about Grand Prize Pitch Day here: bigideascontest.org/2025/05/15/agr…

“In this work, compassion isn’t a gesture of service, it’s a radical act of kinship grounded in the belief that there is no us and them, only us." Congrats to the Global Poverty & Practice minor's Class of 2025! blumcenter.berkeley.edu/gpps-class-of-…