“Slums: The Global Urban Future?” Asks Replicant Roy

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Introducing: Replicant Roy — a genetically engineered android. She is the slave labor of the #GlobalPOV machine, meant to toil in off-world script writing sessions and banned from all storyboard undertakings. She is essential yet disposable, once narration is complete. Her very existence calls into question human-ness itself.

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The M.DevEng Class of 2022 (Photo by Amy Sullivan)
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Congrats, M.DevEng Class of 2022! Members of Inaugural Cohort, Themselves Pioneers in DevEng, Graduate

After 16 months, three semesters, 44 internships, 26 capstone projects, and countless hours in the classroom and out in the field, the inaugural cohort of UC Berkeley’s M.DevEng program walked across the stage of campus’ Sibley Auditorium in the Bechtel Engineering Center on Saturday to receive the country’s — if not the world’s — first master of development engineering degree.

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A View from the Loo

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.

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Matthew D. Potts and the Scholarship of Resource Economics

How can we meet increasing human demands from the land while protecting natural systems? This is the question that Matthew Potts, UC Berkeley’s S. J. Hall Chair in Forestry Economics and the Vice Chair of the Graduate Group in Development Engineering, asks in his scholarship.

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