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Global Gains in Reducing Extreme Poverty
By Shankar Sastry In a recent poll from Oxford University’s Our World in Data, a majority of Americans said that the share of the world
February 11, 2020
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Development Engineering Awarded $3 Million From National Science Foundation
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Blum Center’s Laura Stachel, Creator of Solar Suitcase, Named One of Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2013
Dr. Laura Stachel (MD, MPH), a researcher with the UC Berkeley Blum Center for Developing Economies, has been named one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes
November 14, 2013
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Development Impact Lab Conference Speaks to Future of Engineering for Poverty Solutions
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
June 13, 2018
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Ph.D. Student Paige Balcom Turns Awards into Innovation and Social Change in Uganda
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.
June 15, 2021
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And this years’ Big Ideas Grand Prize Award Goes To…
In its annual Grand Prize Pitch Day and Awards Celebration on May 4, judges of the UC-wide Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Contest awarded the 2022 Grand Prize to the “SMART Cookies” project from UC Irvine, a community-based solution to iron-deficiency anemia. The Grand Prize award winner takes home $10,000 on top of any earlier awards earned in the past year.
May 6, 2022