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The Blum Center’s Rebecca Peters, whose classroom work and field research focus on issues of water security, management and equity, is one of 62 “exceptional college juniors” nationwide selected as 2013 Harry S. Truman scholars.
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#GlobalPOV: Art, videos and Twitter take poverty curriculum to the world
April 8, 2013:
Three Cal alumni and teachers — a live-action sketch artist, a social-media proselytizer and a brilliant professor who is also an unapologetic Bono fan — have teamed up to create artful, provocative videos and brought Twitter into the classroom. The goal: to extend the teachings of Berkeley’s biggest minor, Global Poverty and Practice, online. The project could be a model for a new kind of public scholarship and online education.
18 Berkeley students head to St. Louis for Clinton Global Initiative University
April 4, 2013:
The April 5-7 conference will include knowledge-sharing and networking opportunities for students committed to tackling the world’s most pressing problems and will feature speeches by Muhammad Yunus, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jack Dorsey and Stephen Colbert, among others.
USAID invests up to $20 million in UC Berkeley’s global development initiatives
November 8, 2012:
Recognizing UC Berkeley’s leadership in developing practical, innovative solutions for global problems, the U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded $20 million to establish a Development Impact Lab on campus.
Blum Center students, professor at Clinton Global University Initiative conference
March 31, 2011:
Ananya Roy, education director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies, and 13 students from the center’s Global Poverty and Pratice minor, which Roy chairs, will be attending the April 1-3 Clinton Global Initiative University meeting in San Diego. The students were invited to the annual event by the Clinton Foundation after having a made a commitment to address a pressing challenge on campus, in the local community, or elsewhere in the world.
