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Six projects were awarded a total of $30K at this year's CITRIS Big Ideas contest, with the top two prizes going to healthcare-related issues.
A group that wants to make a cheap fuel cell that can efficiently convert hydrocarbon fuel into
electricity won this year's CET Cleantech Innovation Contest.
Ethan Miller's group has come up with a new approach, called Pergamum, which uses hard
disk drives to provide energy-efficient, cost-effective storage.
The April newsletter features stories about technology for social impact: CellScope (cell phone + microscope) and enabling eye care in India using cheap, reliable Wi-Fi.
Reliable and inexpensive broadband connects rural patients to eye doctors.
by Gordy Slack The CellScope is an ordinary cell phone with an optical microscope attachment, which would allow it to serve as a necessary device […]
Dear Friends of CITRIS:
The two projects featured in our newsletter demonstrate the tremendous power of
technology for social impact. It is exciting and …
The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy (GTEA)
provides science and engineering research faculty, post-docs and doctoral
students with the necessary knowledge and skills to move environmentally
sustainable and green technology research out of the laboratory and into
practice.
Matthew Scullin, Graduate Student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley, is part of a collaborative exhibit currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
UC Berkeley is partnering with Intel and
Microsoft to accelerate developments in parallel computing and advance the
powerful benefits of multi-core processing to mainstream consumer and business
computers.
