On May 13, student teams pitched their mobile apps before a panel of esteemed judges at the annual Innovate to Grow showcase event. The 5th […]
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Students Create Innovative Solutions for Nonprofit Partners in Berkeley Builds Designathon
Berkeley Builds Designathon—the first interdisciplinary social innovation designathon on campus—completed with roaring success on April 30th – May 1st, 2016. Hosted by Project RISHI, Hackers […]
Students design and demo mobile apps to benefit society at UC Davis
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the second-annual CITRIS Mobile App Challenge at UC Davis: SafeTravel, Eventr, PalMe, & Food Budgt. CITRIS sponsors this […]
SideKick Wins 2016 CITRIS Mobile App Challenge at UC Berkeley
To promote innovation, community service, and career development among UC Berkeley students, CITRIS sponsored a semester-long competition for undergraduate and graduate students to develop mobile […]
Special Education Project Wins 2016 CITRIS Big Ideas competition
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are honored to announce the top five winners in the IT for Society category of the Big Ideas competition. Selected […]
2016 CITRIS Seed Funding Awards $575,000 to Ten Information Technology Projects
We are delighted to announce the CITRIS Seed Funding Program awards for 2016. This year, 54 highly competitive teams from the four CITRIS campuses at […]
CITRIS Partners with UC Riverside for New Seed Funding Series
We are delighted to announce the inaugural CITRIS & UC Riverside Seed Funding Program and grant awardees. As part of CITRIS’s annual seed funding process, […]
Big Ideas Finalists Announced in “IT for Society” 2016 Competition
CITRIS is delighted to have six innovative finalists in the IT for Society category of the 2015-2016 Big Ideas at Berkeley competition, which provides funding, […]
QuakeCAFE: A mobile wake-up call for Californians
BERKELEY – No one likes to be reminded that there’s a 99.7% chance that California will experience a major earthquake in the next 30 years. […]
Apply for the 2016 CITRIS Seed Funding Opportunities (Deadline: Jan. 31, 2016)
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is a multi-campus institute within the University of California charged with creating information […]
Finally, a one-stop shop for locating California’s fishes
Reposted from California WaterBlog | Nov. 8, 2015 | By Nick Santos “Where?” The question is foundational to conservation biology and policy. To take a […]
CITRIS Day 2015 Highlights
The inaugural CITRIS Day on October 13, 2015, delivered timely panel discussions and keynote talks, and the videos are now online. Please also enjoy the […]
DOE selects UC Berkeley to lead U.S.-China energy and water consortium
CITRIS Merced campus director Joshua Viers is participating as a campus principal investigator (PI) lead in the new CERC-WET consortium. CITRIS PI Jay Lund is also engaged […]
Join us for CITRIS Day 2015 on October 13
In celebration of our 15th anniversary, we highlight activities core to our mission: bringing innovative methods, insights, and tools from the classroom to the marketplace […]
Researchers Gathering Data to Tackle California’s Water Crisis on Multiple Fronts
Reposted from Sierra Sun Times | by Joel Patenaude | September 25, 2015 California, long envied by the rest of the country for its climate, beauty […]
Big Ideas@Berkeley competition open: student funding competition
The 2015-2016 Big Ideas@Berkeley contest is now open. Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of […]
CITRIS Deputy Director Camille Crittenden presents at BIDS DP@C Series
For the 2015-2016 academic year, the Data Points at Cal (BIDS DP@C) series hosted directors from various data science-related research units on campus who delivered 10-minute overviews of […]
How to beat the climate crisis? Start with carrots
Learn more about CITRIS affiliated researchers John Zysman and Nina Kelsey’s work on climate policy in the Berkeley News article, “How to beat the climate […]
Going With the Flow of Data
Scientific data like that being produced by UC Merced researchers will ultimately provide a means to a more sustainable future. “Going with the Flow of […]
Students Recognized for Important MESA Lab Projects
Professor YangQuan Chen has many reasons to be proud of his Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab. Besides being extremely popular — so popular the lab […]
One Ph.D. Student’s Mission to Reduce Our Carbon Footprint
Reducing our carbon footprint: Transportation app inspires new “IT for Sustainability” course at UC Berkeley. By Cecile Basnage Climate change is “the defining challenge of our […]
CITRIS Supports Launch of DOE-Sponsored $100K Cleantech University Prize
UC Berkeley has been selected as one of eight national hosts for the Department of Energy (DOE) Cleantech University Prize competitions for aspiring collegiate cleantech […]
Five Questions for Dr. Kenneth Loh, New Director of CITRIS at UC Davis
Since his appointment in July 2015 as the new UC Davis campus director for CITRIS, Dr. Kenneth Loh has been actively recruiting students for CITRIS projects, promoting […]
Siebel Energy Institute launches with major Berkeley presence
by Karen Rhodes | Reposted from Berkeley Engineering, 08/03/2015 The Siebel Energy Institute, a global university consortium focused on smart energy, marked its debut today […]