By Francesca Munsayac and April You In rural Uganda, extension services help farmers apply cutting edge technologies and best practices that promote agricultural productivity and improve rural livelihoods. While most African countries have extension programs that arm local farmers with the agricultural information they need to succeed, limited resources often Read more
Students after presenting to the Department of Treasury Eight weeks of ideation, prototyping, and pitches led 17 UC Berkeley students to Washington D.C. where they presented their hard work to Treasury Department officials as well as the defense and intelligence communities. Reflecting on this amazing experience, the Collider participants want other students to Read more
Eric Munsing (technical lead for National I-Corps team eCal Charge) and Rhonda Shrader (Bay Area Node Executive Director) represented the Node during two days of Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) activities. The pair met with 20+ Members of Congress (Zoe Lofgren, D-CA pictured here) to brief them on how the Read more
On May 2nd, 2017, Free Ventures hosted its semi-annual Demo Day showcasing six startups at The House near UC Berkeley. Unlike past semesters, this year’s Demo Day was closed to the general public to allow Berkeley students, investors, mentors and leaders of Silicon Valley to network in a more private Read more
Alvaro Silberstein and his team Wheel The World made one of the biggest and most painful pivots during the 3-month UC-wide accelerator. Their success now is undeniable, with new sponsorships from North Face and others. Read here for one example of how UC Berkeley teams are changing the world! Read more
This semester, The Sutardja Center created a new course, Data-X, which allowed students to team up to tackle technically complex problems. In the course, students identified real-world problems, collected data, and created applications to find solutions. Click on the picture below to check out this year’s Data-X course! Data-X Read more
This article is will be published in the 2017 Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s annual journal AIR (Applied Innovation Review) in June 2017. You can see the 2016 version here. Shomit Ghose is a UC Berkeley alum and mentor, venture capitalist, and partner at ONSET ventures. Cognitive Irredentists Arise! Read more
On May 3rd, Team Dory (Kimberlie Le and Joshua Nixon) cooked up a flaky, fatty, fishy plant-based salmon to win the plant-based seafood collider finals. Joshua Nixon and Kimberlie Le from Team Dory serving up plant-based fish to Christie Legally from the Good Food Institute The challenge for this collider Read more
Kicked off our latest one week NSF I-Corps training last night. Teams from UC Berkeley, Stanford and Berkeley Labs ranging from optimizing Chinese medicine supplementation to mapping gamma radiation with drones. Curious? We’re running three *free* one week Lean Startup training sessions over the summer: http://bit.ly/2bTlHyl. Source link
This year two Blum Center student instructors, Sonia Travaglini and Julia Kramer, will receive Berkeley’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award. The women were chosen for their command of the subject area, promotion of problem-based learning, and their ability to motivate students. Sonia attests that the key to being a successful Read more