When Maria Artunduaga won a University of California award in 2017 for her team’s technology to manage pulmonary disease, she noted a critical factor in the victory: contest-organized mentorship from Jocelyn Brown with the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health.
Hombres Verdaderos: Training Youth to Confront Domestic Violence
The Blum Center reached out to Karla Tlatelpa and Leilani Gutierrez-Palominos to ask how the Global Poverty & Practice minor helped shape their understanding of and participation in the medical field.
By Veena Narashiman ‘2020 Education has long been considered a means to move out of poverty. Edtech—teaching and learning that makes use of technology—has in
The Blum Center’s Development Engineering (Dev Eng) program provides students with an avenue to use their deep technical skills in fields such as economics, engineering,
By Veena Narashiman ’2020 Originally a portmanteau of the words hack and marathon, a hackathon typically occurs over a day or two, bringing together computer
