By Sonia Travaglini
By Sybil Lewis When Karen Andrade, a PhD student in the School of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, came to UC Berkeley in 2009, she
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.
Makesh Ramalingam of HCL Technologies explains the process of bringing devices to market and the unique challenges posed by individual countries’ regulatory standards at the latest talk in the Health Tech CoLab spring speaker series. The event will be held in person in Blum Hall 120 and streamed live online. Click for more details.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TECHCON 2014: UNIVERSITY INNOVATORS TRANSCEND ACADEMIC SILOS TO PRESENT CUTTING-EDGE COLLABORATIONS FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT Young solvers put theory into action to improve
By Sybil Lewis In the summer of 2012, an interdisciplinary research group at UC Berkeley set out to study the demand for and effects of
