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Laura D’Andrea Tyson on Social Impact at Cal
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
July 30, 2015
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Transforming Maternal Healthcare in Kenyan Slums
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Alice Agogino Wins Highest U.S. Award for Mentoring
Blum Center Education Director Alice Agogino has been named winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, the government’s highest
July 5, 2018
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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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GPP Students Engage With Challenges of Poverty Action at Home and Abroad
By Abby Madan and Rachel Voss This summer, 49 UC Berkeley undergraduates in the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor applied their classroom learning to
June 13, 2014
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Dan Fletcher and Ashok Gadgil Projects Among Top 100 Proposals of MacArthur $100 Million Grant
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today unveiled that the LoaScope Project for Removing the Greatest Obstacle to the Elimination of River Blindness was one of the highest-scoring proposals, designated as the Top 100, in its 100&Change competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve one of the world’s most critical social challenges.
February 19, 2020