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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.
Tag: poverty
Campus’s ‘socially responsible licensing’ receives Patents for Humanity award
April 11, 2013:
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office honored UC Berkeley’s technology transfer office for its socially responsible licensing to provide low-cost treatments and technologies to people in developing countries, highlighted by the successful licensing of a discovery leading to a newly launched yeast-derived malaria drug. Other projects are nutritionally fortified sorghum & disease-resistant crops.
California’s temporary workers face increased likelihood of poverty, says new study
August 28, 2012:
California’s temporary workers are twice as likely as other employees in the state to live in poverty, receive food stamps and be on Medicaid, according to a new report from UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education.
Black and Latino seniors’ retirement insecurity detailed
February 27, 2012:
Black and Latino seniors face tougher times in retirement than American seniors as a whole, says a new research brief based on U.S. census data. Retirees of color, especially Blacks and Latinos, “rely more heavily on Social Security and have less access to other types of retirement income than their white counterparts,” says study author Nari Rhee of the Center for Labor Research and Education.
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.
Investments in rural energy efficiency, renewable energy reduce poverty, greenhouse gas emissions
November 25, 2010:
A clean-energy initiative in rural Nicaragua shows that developing nations can take cost-effective steps to reduce carbon emissions while helping the rural poor to reduce their energy expenses, according to researchers at UC Berkeley.
