2023 Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Finalists Announced!
In December 2022, UC Berkeley students from more than 50 majors and disciplines submitted their game-changing social innovations to the Big Ideas Contest. All told,
In December 2022, UC Berkeley students from more than 50 majors and disciplines submitted their game-changing social innovations to the Big Ideas Contest. All told,
Sam Goldman Xavier Aguirre Villarreal’s father is a farmer in Coahuila, Mexico. “We get to work with a lot of people from very different places
In its annual Pitch Day event, the 2022 Big Ideas Grand Prize went to “SMART Cookies” from UC Irvine
Learn about the top social innovations being developed by students from across the entire UC System and network with the Big Ideas community of judges,
Sam Goldman While virtual events during the pandemic have allowed participants to multi-task, sometimes those activities can get a little stressful — especially when it
In November 2020, students from across the University of California system submitted a record number of innovative ideas to the UC Big Ideas Contest. All
After receiving mentorship from the Big Ideas Contest, Amy Liu, founder and CEO of Partners in Life, became an Innovation Ambassador for both the 2018-2019 academic year and now the 2019-2020 one.
When Amelia Hopkins Phillips, executive director of SOMO, graduated from UC Berkeley in 2016, her plan was to move to Nairobi, Kenya for six months and then return home. Yet three and a half years later, she’s still there.
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