Earth Voices
The majority of American adults think global warming is happening, but almost half of American adults do not think it will affect their personal life. This is because of political bias and psychological distance to the consequences of climate change. Many projects, such as video-blogs, summer camps, and public outreach activities have been tackling these … Continue reading “Earth Voices”
- Team: Bernardo Bastien, Raiza Pilatowsky
- Art & Social Change
- UC Davis
- 2020
ChemCath
Even a patient monitored every 4 hours can undergo quick physiological changes (e.g. shock) that threaten their health because they are not detected fast enough. ChemCath is a sensor-embedded modification of a current catheter that will enable early identification of these deleterious events by continuously monitoring physiologic and chemical data without requiring blood draws. Leveraging … Continue reading “ChemCath”
- Team: Serena Blacklow
- Global Health
- UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco
- 2020
BioMilitus
Agricultural co-products and other food wastes are used as feedstock for insects, which are later harvested for biomass, rich in proteins and fats valued as animal feed ingredient. Consequently, the bioconverted food waste is transformed into a microbially active insect compost known as frass, which may be used as a soil amendment for crops. Given … Continue reading “BioMilitus”
- Team: Ferisca Putri, Trevor Fowles, Lydia Palma
- Food and Agriculture
- UC Davis
- 2020
AIDS-Tech
The broader access to antiretroviral drugs has led not only to considerable reductions in morbidity and mortality but, unfortunately, has increased the risk of virologic failure due to emergence and potential transmission of drug-resistant viruses. AIDS-tech will be a portable point of care diagnostic test that detects HIV drug resistance mutations in patient blood samples … Continue reading “AIDS-Tech”
- Team: Brian Nyiro, Bright Sharon Amanya, Brenda Nakandi
- Global Health
- Makerere University
- 2020
Polygon
1 in 5 people has a learning difference, such as dyslexia or ADHD. This represents 70 million people in the US, each struggling with their own learning journey. Polygon is on a mission to give every person with a learning difference the full range of tools they need to thrive — from diagnosis to … Continue reading “Polygon”
- Team Members: Jack Rolo, Joshua Curry, Meryll Dindin School: UC Berkeley
- Workforce Development
- UC Berkeley
- 2019
My Earth
My Earth is a social enterprise that provides training and employment for Australia’s remote Indigenous communities in the construction industry. My Earth engages local people to construct low-cost but high-quality, environmentally-sustainable housing. It uses locally-sourced soil as the primary building material, in a technique called Compressed Earth Block (CEB) technology. This construction technique has been … Continue reading “My Earth”
- Team Members: Cara Nolan, Jennifer Liu, Tamar Saunders
- Workforce Development
- UC Berkeley
- 2019
Doin’ Good: Mobile Makerspace & Education Center
Of the ~200,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon between the ages of 18 and 25 years, only 4% have access to formal education. Many of the current education programs do not focus on hands-on technical education and are not designed to reach the remote areas, where most refugees live. The innovative approach to these challenges is … Continue reading “Doin’ Good: Mobile Makerspace & Education Center”
- Team Members: Payton Goodrich, Malte Hofmann, Jonas Michalzik
- Workforce Development
- UC Berkeley
- 2019
Spotlight On Hope Film Camp
Spotlight On Hope is free-of-cost and offers a unique and creative outlet through film and animation instruction for pediatric and young adult cancer patients and their families. Spotlight On Hope brings excitement, enjoyment and relaxation to patients through film production, enhancing their mental well-being, self-worth and skills during a particularly stressful and traumatic time of … Continue reading “Spotlight On Hope Film Camp”
- Team Members: Cassie Nguyen, Ally Nguyen, Nhi Trinh
- Scaling Up
- UC Riverside
- 2019
ZestBio
ZestBio is a startup spun out of UC Berkeley that is harnessing the power of biology to convert low value, abundant fruit and vegetable byproducts like citrus peels and sugar beet pulp into high performing plastic bottles and ingredients for dishwasher detergents. This proposal aims to build off recent business and technical advances to scale … Continue reading “ZestBio”
- Team Members: Luke Latimer, Ryan Protzko
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2019