UC Davis student-led tech projects provide solutions to societal issues
Jul 30, 2019
Four UC Davis projects highlighted at Engineering Design Showcase
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The “Future of Work” addressed in Silicon Valley Forum
Jul 10, 2019
Industry experts shaped guidelines to technologically improve society at the “Future of the Workforce” event in Silicon Valley.
CITRIS Foundry alum receives $1.7 million
Jun 11, 2019
San Francisco Chronicle: CITRIS Foundry alum WattTime received a $1.7 million grant as a Google AI Impact Grantee. WattTime will use satellite images to monitor power plants’ carbon emissions...
Prosthetic Hand Challenge
Jun 8, 2019
CITRIS has partnered with the Lawrence Hall of Science on an exhibit that spun from the Sophie’s Super Hand and Million Hands projects out of the CITRIS Invention Lab. The Prosthetic Hand...
How to Become an Effective Female Founder
May 8, 2019
As female entrepreneurs, the job is often more challenging. For instance, raising capital, only 2% of all American venture capital went to female founders in 2018. Despite the consistent...
RAPID Merced: preparing for the future
May 7, 2019
UC Merced: A collaboration of robotics at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Merced, RAPID is creating the next generation of the emerging ag-tech industry in the Central Valley. Read more...
Korea Woman Journalists Association visits CITRIS
Jun 9, 2019
A delegation from the Korea Woman Journalists Association visited CITRIS Headquarters at Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley last week to learn more about Women in Technology, particularly about...
Fifty years of surveillance law in America
Jun 11, 2019
Cyrus Farivar, investigative tech reporter at NBC News and Habeas Data author, discusses 10 legal cases that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in the U.S., at a talk...
Big tech firms racing to track climate refugees
Jun 11, 2019
MIT Technology Review: “Everybody deserves to have formal identification that they can use to exert their rights,” says Brandie Nonnecke, director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, as to why we need to...
Misinformation Spreading About Abortion Ban
Jun 8, 2019
Buzzfeed: Recent abortion bans have spurred a rash of misleading claims online consistent with research from the CITRIS Policy Lab on the role of bots in spreading disinformation, harassment, and...
CITRIS Inventor Series presents “Eyeris”
Feb 1, 2019
“Eyeris,” described by Mechanical Engineering PhD student George Moore as a “performative wearable that aims to tackle the issue of sexual harassment– specifically, non-consensual touch.”...
Calling all innovators: Apply to CITRIS Foundry
Jun 8, 2019
Devising plans for a startup? Looking for help and support? A call for applications is now open at the newly relaunched CITRIS Foundry innovation incubator. First review is August 1. The CITRIS...
AI that’s fair, reliable, safe: California can lead the way
Jun 8, 2019
Today, automated decision systems influence who receives health insurance, parole, and job offers. The California legislature is leading the nation in establishing standards for accountability,...
Now Hiring: CITRIS Foundry – Communications Assistant
May 17, 2019
About the CITRIS Foundry The CITRIS Foundry is a deep tech innovation incubator that supports top entrepreneurs from the University of California build transformative technology companies....
Now Hiring: CITRIS Foundry – Community and Events Coordinator
May 17, 2019
About the CITRIS Foundry The CITRIS Foundry is a deep tech innovation incubator that supports top entrepreneurs from the University of California build transformative technology...
2019 Tech for Social Good showcase
May 7, 2019
The CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program at UC Berkeley hosted its annual end-of-semester showcase of student projects on April 30. Student-led projects funded during the 2018-2019 academic year...
From Invention Lab to Ghana, training devices to screen for cervical cancer
May 2, 2019
by Saemmool Lee Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequent cancer in women globally, and about 90 percent of deaths from the disease occur in low- and middle-income countries, according to the...
Q&A with new NanoLab faculty director
Mar 18, 2019
by Saemmool Lee Constance Chang-Hasnain, Berkeley Engineering’s associate dean for strategic alliances and John R. Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer...
CITRIS Foundry innovation hub expands under new leadership
May 1, 2019
by Saemmool Lee The CITRIS Foundry welcomes a new executive director, Maher Hakim, Ph.D., who comes aboard after the Foundry’s five-year-review and a renewed mission to support deep tech...
7 Questions for BioInspira Founder Ray Chiu
Apr 30, 2019
By Saemmool Lee Po Jui (Ray) Chiu, co-founder and CEO of BioInspira, was named among Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy for 2019. A CITRIS Foundry company, BioInspira is a material sciences and...