Take a peek inside the final scene of #GlobalPOV’s forthcoming vid, “Who Profits From Poverty?” It’s got potential. We just need to finesse Abby’s DJ skillz a bit. With motion graphics. Some sound effects. And perhaps a little…rhythm. (Shout-out to Professor Burns and the Lilac Field!)
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In this impassioned TED Talk, Isha Ray, UC Berkeley Energy and Resources professor and Blum Center affiliate, talks gender, dignity, and toilets. Watch the clip here.
Paige Balcom was in Uganda when COVID hit. The country quickly instituted a strict lockdown—all borders and airports closed, transport stopped, a strict curfew and other restrictions were enforced by the military, misinformation spread, and many people couldn’t get food. In the fall, the UC Berkeley Ph.D. student’s classes went remote, and she dealt with the 10-hour time difference.
By Morgan Hillenbrand On a typical day in the village of Mihingoni, Kenya, girls emerge at dawn, traveling down red clay paths against a backdrop
A collaboration between Blum Center Research Director and bioengineering professor Dan Fletcher, Professor Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute, and Dr. Melanie Ott of UCSF’s Gladstones Institutes is developing a CRISPR-Cas13a-based diagnostic to rapidly detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
By Veena Narashiman and Blum Center News In 2013, the Blum Center and the Center for Effective Global Action founded the Development Impact Lab, to launch the new
