
Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Specialization? Some Thoughts on 21st-Century PhDs
By Sophi Martin When you get a PhD, you are the world’s expert in some narrow but incredibly deep scientific realm. You have asked a
By Sophi Martin When you get a PhD, you are the world’s expert in some narrow but incredibly deep scientific realm. You have asked a
By Tamara Straus For the Pinoleville Pomo Nation of Ukiah, California, collaboration has not historically been a word used to describe interactions with white Americans.
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.
S. Shankar Sastry has announced that he will step down as faculty director of the Blum Center at the end of the academic year. In his message, he expresses his thanks and reflects on the many successes of his tenure as director from 2007 to the current academic year.
Last month, the Blum Center hosted a networking reception for its inaugural cohort of Innovation at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (InFEWS)