Student Teams Partner with DoD to Improve Disaster Response
Prototype for FireFly, an augmented reality helmet that “seamlessly connects to a mesh network of drones to provide real-time navigational…
Continue ReadingDevEng & InFEWS fellow Paige Balcom wins 2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Courtesy of Silvia Ahn and Lemelson-MIT DevEng PhD student and InFEWS fellow, Paige Balcom, was awarded the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student…
Continue ReadingWarm Visit Week Welcome for Admitted M.DevEng Students
Visit Week on OhYay session with faculty and admitted M.DevEng students By Jason Liu In early April, the first cohort…
Continue ReadingGadgil’s Infant Warmer ‘Warming Indicator’ upgrade wins Patents for Humanity award
Blum faculty Ashok Gadgil and Berkeley Lab research scientist Vi Rapp (Ph.D.’11 ME) won a “Patents for Humanity” award for…
Continue ReadingJennifer Doudna on the Pandemic Year: The Power of Mission-Driven Science
In this WSJ op-ed, Nobel prize-winning CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna describes UC Berkeley’s research response to the pandemic, including the…
Continue ReadingThe Pandemic Pushed This Farmer Into Deep Poverty – Then Something Amazing Happened
NPR: The Togo government partnered with Blum faculty member & I-School associate professor Joshua Blumenstock to use satellite imagery and mobile…
Continue ReadingAgogino Awarded for Faculty Service
Blum Center Education Director Alice Agogino, and on Berkeley Engineering’s faculty since 1984, has received the 2021 Berkeley Faculty Service…
Continue ReadingCOVID-Scope: Mobile Phone-Based Virus Detection
Courtesy Dan Fletcher A collaboration between Blum Center Research Director and bioengineering professor Dan Fletcher, Professor Jennifer Doudna of UC…
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