Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day Showcases Inventions of Top Student Teams

Blum Center Faculty Director Shankar Sastry, Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and former dean of Berkeley Engineering, has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2021 Rufus Oldenburger Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

The Health Technologies Collaborative Laboratory, a brand-new collaboration space to advance the development of medical devices to facilitate better healthcare and close the data and information gaps between innovators and industry, opened its doors last month in Blum Hall’s historic Naval Architecture Building with a launch event on Sept. 23 for a masked-up group of supporters, industry representatives, and campus VIPs.

Blum Center affiliate Dr. Kweku-Opoku Agyemang discusses his research on corruption in Africa. Special thanks to our partners at Seeker. Seeker features adventurers, explorers, and