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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

ACES Awardees Sean Burns and Khalid Kadir

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Blum Center Lecturers Receive Chancellor’s Public Service Awards

This past May, two Blum Center affiliated lecturers, Dr. Sean Burns and Dr. Khalid Kadir, were each awarded Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service for their

August 13, 2014

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Blum Affiliated Faculty, Clair Brown, Talks Buddhist Economics

In this podcast, Blum Center affiliated faculty, Clair Brown, speaks about alternative ways of structuring an economy and measuring economic progress, based on the Buddhist

July 28, 2017

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Multiplicity Not Singularity: Ken Goldberg on the Future of Work

By Lisa Bauer Robotics Professor Ken Goldberg is the first to acknowledge the public anxiety about what automation and AI might mean for future jobs.

November 26, 2018

What Will the Children of Madagascar Inherit?

By Roxanne Rahnama There is a local Malagasy proverb in the southeast Anosy region of Madagascar that goes Ny fianarana no lovasoa indrindra: Education is

November 18, 2014

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Fletcher Lab’s Mobile Phone-based Microscope for Neglected Tropical Diseases Receives Gates Foundation Support

Blum Center Lecturers Receive Chancellor’s Public Service Awards

Blum Affiliated Faculty, Clair Brown, Talks Buddhist Economics

Multiplicity Not Singularity: Ken Goldberg on the Future of Work

What Will the Children of Madagascar Inherit?

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