All Education / Curricular Innovation Projects

1) To establish a research database so that the UC Berkeley School of Public Health may use the data to research maternal mortality, drug distribution, and relevant subjects. 2) Send needed medical supplies to maternity clinics and/or other clinic types. Learn more

To create an outlet for students to produce multimedia content, teach them about digital media tools, and push the boundaries of video on the internet. Learn more

Our purpose is to achieve three objectives. First, we hope that the many hours of volunteer labor will tangibly enhance the city residents’ quality of life and physically improve the city itself. Second, this event will help to forge a more positive relationship between students and city residents. Lastly, our goal is to increase the number of UC Berkeley who consistently partake in community service or volunteer work. We are confident our efforts already have and will continue to build a sense of community pride in Cal students and serve as a gesture of goodwill to bridge the gap between our campus and the community. Learn more

The environmental challenges we face as a society today are driving increased interest, research, and investment in new energy solutions. As one of the world’s leading science and technology universities and home to one of the nation's leading business schools, UC Berkeley is positioned to take a leadership role in the future of the energy industry. Interdisciplinary practitioners are needed. We are proposing a program that will connect current resources and attract these practitioners through courses, scholarships, fellowships, internships, speakers series, field trips, and community building events. The program will produce a new kind of leader and accelerate the pace of energy innovation. Learn more

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To enhance access to literacy among children of school-going age in the developing world. In particular, we aim to complement the formal schooling system by applying mobile learning technology to augment educational opportunities in out-of-school settings. In order to make the literacy challenge more tractable, we are currently focusing on English language literacy in rural India. But we expect our lessons to be applicable to other languages and to other developing regions throughout the world. English is widely seen as a key to socioeconomic success in India. English is taught in almost all schools: as a second language in public schools, and as a first language and the medium of instruction in most private schools. Fluency in English can almost be equated with membership in the middle and upper classes. A recent article states that mastery of English is the “single most influential factor that determines access to elite educational institutions, and hence to important avenues of economic and social advancement.” Language competency is also the biggest barrier to technology empowerment, e.g. 90% of the indigenous web content in India is in English. Learn more