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Gadgil’s Infant Warmer ‘Warming Indicator’ upgrade wins Patents for Humanity award

Blum faculty Ashok Gadgil and Berkeley Lab research scientist Vi Rapp (Ph.D.’11 ME) won a “Patents for Humanity” award for their Warming Indicator, a phase-change material temperature indicator that improves the Infant Warmer’s functionality and safety, received a 2020 Patents for Humanity award.

March 31, 2021

More Than Hardware: Challenges in Education Technology in Africa

By Sybil Lewis In 2012, the Inter-American Development Bank concluded that children in Peru receiving computers from the American nonprofit One Laptop per Child did

April 22, 2015

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ZestBio Continues Innovation with Waste-based Products

By Tamara Straus Early in 2017, Ryan Protzko, then a doctoral student in biochemistry at UC Berkeley, was working on research to turn orange peels

December 4, 2018

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Blackbook U wins Big Ideas Grand Prize

The UC-wide Big Ideas Contest, based at the Blum Center, awarded the 2021 Grand Prize to Blackbook University, a team of Berkeley undergraduate students led by Ibrahim Balde that designed a platform to equip Black students with communities, resources, and opportunities to help overcome institutional inequities in higher education and employment.

October 27, 2021

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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

Big Ideas Entrepreneurs Respond to COVID-19

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Gadgil’s Infant Warmer ‘Warming Indicator’ upgrade wins Patents for Humanity award

More Than Hardware: Challenges in Education Technology in Africa

ZestBio Continues Innovation with Waste-based Products

Blackbook U wins Big Ideas Grand Prize

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

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