
InFEWS Fellows Take on Sustainable Development Goals
By Tamara Straus The goal of the PhD is to do original research in a specific discipline. That means in-depth and often narrow inquiries that
By Tamara Straus The goal of the PhD is to do original research in a specific discipline. That means in-depth and often narrow inquiries that
Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) is President Clinton’s initiative to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world. Each year,
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
Development Engineering Prof. Amy Pickering, Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice at UC Berkeley, and Dr. Katya Cherukumilli, a postdoctoral scholar in Pickering’s lab, have won a $1.9 million award to increase access to clean and safe water in low-income urban communities around the world. The Open Philanthropy grant will go toward scaling up and deploying the Venturi, the in-line (passive) chlorinator device that was originally designed by local engineers in Bangladesh, Kenya, and the U.S.
By Tamara Straus Laura D’Andrea Tyson likes to see herself as a communicator and translator of complex economic ideas. But the world tends to see