
A Year of Solutions Science and Scholarship at the Blum Center
Shankar Sastry What is the role of the university in the wider world? What is the role of scholarship in an era of vast digitally
Shankar Sastry What is the role of the university in the wider world? What is the role of scholarship in an era of vast digitally
Big Ideas IT Finalists Put Apps to Work for Social Impact
Of the nearly 200 pre-proposal applications that were received in November from students across every campus of the UC system, sixteen projects were selected from a diverse portfolio of innovations spanning a variety of social impact tracks, including global health, food and agriculture, financial inclusion, energy and resources, education and literacy, cities and communities, data and AI, and art and social change. UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Merced, UC San Diego, and UC San Francisco all have projects in the finals. Half of the team leads for the finalist projects identify as female. A quarter of the projects are led by undergrads.
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By Tamara Straus Daniel Kammen asserts that everything he has learned about communicating scientific research to a lay audience has been “by accident.” Yet Kammen,