Combining scientific data with Indigenous oral histories and ecological knowledge, research by Blum Center Associate Director for Sustainable Development Matthew Potts shows how cultural burning practices of Native people of the Klamath Mountains helped shape the region’s forests for at least a millennia prior to European colonization.
A Course that Designs for Sustainable Communities
By Tamara Straus Laura Stachel never meant to be a social innovator. She never imagined working in developing countries. And if you told her 10
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 S. Shankar Sastry Today, access to water, energy, health care, and financial services remain the greatest challenges to alleviation of extreme poverty, which affects
by Rachel Shafer The Blum Center for Developing Economies announced the appointment of Maryanne McCormick as its Executive Director. She will be responsible for leadership,
