BearCare: Comprehensive Student Mobile Health App
With 38,204 matriculated students and thousands of programs available on campus, the University of California Berkeley can often be a daunting place to find health services and support. In response to the issues that students face, the American Medical Student Association: Community and Public Health Committee seeks to create an iOS mobile phone application that … Continue reading “BearCare: Comprehensive Student Mobile Health App”
- Team Members: Tracy Lee, Mihir Joshi, Somya Jain, Arjun Mahajan, Anna Boser
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2017
React!: A Board Game that Makes Organic Chemistry Fun
Organic chemistry is one of the most “feared” classes amongst all undergraduates across the nation; this is partly because organic chemistry forces students to think visually about molecules and see how they can come together to create unique compounds. React! is an innovative and collaborative board game intended to address many of the challenges to … Continue reading “React!: A Board Game that Makes Organic Chemistry Fun”
- Team Members: Ankur Gupta, Prerak Juthani, Billal Ahmed
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2017
CourseExplorer: Helping Students Uncover Hidden Gems
Because of the breadth of departments and courses that Berkeley offers every semester, both undergraduate and graduate students often feel overwhelmed and either make course choices based on word of mouth recommendations or stick with their departmental offerings. Even when students choose to venture outside these academic silos, current tools require students to have specific … Continue reading “CourseExplorer: Helping Students Uncover Hidden Gems”
- Team Members: Molly Mahar, Kinshuk, Liz Lee, Edward Yip, Yiyi Chen
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2017
ULAB: Undergraduate Lab at Berkeley
When Berkeley undergraduates engage in immersive research experiences, it can be one of the most transformative and fruitful adventures of their college career. Yet, many new students are deterred from even getting started. This problem stems from a tendency for programs to favor already experienced students and difficulty for new students in navigating a complex … Continue reading “ULAB: Undergraduate Lab at Berkeley”
- Team Members: Alexander Powers, Amit Akula, Mrinalini Sugosh, Dylan Kato, Michael Oshiro
- Improving Student Life
- UC Berkeley
- 2017
InPrint: Parkinson’s Tremor Tracker
InPrint is a lightweight, thin-film metal temporary tattoo that tracks tremors and drug usage for Parkinson’s patients. Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and it can take up to six months for patients to find an effective drug regimen. Neurologists often change a patient’s treatment plan every two to three years due to … Continue reading “InPrint: Parkinson’s Tremor Tracker”
- Team Members: Ashlee Horn, Alex Takahashi, Katherine Spack, Zachary Roy
- Hardware for Good
- UC Berkeley
- 2017
AxoLog
Autonomic nervous system (ANS) disorders often go misdiagnosed or undiagnosed by physicians, especially in pediatric patients with less progressed pathologies. Delayed diagnosis exacerbates physiological and psychobehavioral symptoms associated with this class of diseases. AxoLog is a wearable screening tool catered to pediatric patients to allow for non-invasive and child-friendly diagnosis. The device employs electrodermal responses … Continue reading “AxoLog”
- Team Members: Priya Bhattacharjee, Josh Chen, Maxine Arnush, Richard Xu
- Hardware for Good
- UC Berkeley
- 2017
Lamprey
Laparoscopy is a form of surgery done through a series of small incisions that is becoming the standard for many procedures. Graspers are important tools used in laparoscopy, which allow surgeons to grip and manipulate tissue. Current graspers use a compressive head made of metal jaws with teeth that grip tissue. These graspers have a … Continue reading “Lamprey”
- Team Members: Chethanya Eleswarpu, Sherman Wong, Austin Jordan, Michael Velez
- Hardware for Good
- UC Berkeley
- 2017
Sensen
Many international development organizations strive to improve livelihood around the world by providing products and services to those in need. Organizations rely on field surveys with target communities as the primary form of data collection to uncover the progress of their programs, but these methods are subject to response biases as well as being expensive … Continue reading “Sensen”
- Team Members: Amit Gandhi, Julia Heyman
- Hardware for Good
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2017
ARI
Aerial Research Intelligence (ARI) is a service that allows search and rescue personnel to expand their options for locating missing persons in a more efficient manner using drone technology and machine learning capabilities. ARI can be used with any small unmanned aerial system that autonomously searches the area around an initial planning point and quickly … Continue reading “ARI”
- Team Members: Isabella Domi, Jack Moorer, Jessica Palmer
- Hardware for Good
- UC Merced
- 2017