"We all have limited time on this planet, and what we do is in our hands. Development Engineering exists in an unfair world to make it a little bit more fair.".–Prof. Ashok Gadgil.

Happy World Water Week!. We spoke with @DevEngBerkeley Prof. Kara Nelson about how water-infrastructure innovations — including producing fertilizer from urine — can combat poverty and address a changing climate:.

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Allensworth, CA's groundwater is contaminated by arsenic, but the town has received little help remedying it. So the community teamed up with @DevEngBerkeley Prof. Ashok Gadgil to purify its water, with minimal human intervention and affordable costs:.

“In this work, compassion isn’t a gesture of service, it’s a radical act of kinship grounded in the belief that there is no us and them, only us.". Congrats to the Global Poverty & Practice minor's Class of 2025!.

And this year's @BigIdeasContest grand prize winner is. AgriSolar!. Their mobile and scalable solar-powered irrigation system designed for Nigerian smallholder farmers’ accessibility and affordability. Read more about Grand Prize Pitch Day here:

“We were interested in understanding the role of the household environment in bacterial transmission to humans,” said Prof. @SeqH2O. “And our findings showed that water is actually one of the most important transmission pathways for pathogenic and drug-resistant bacteria.”.

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The goal, Raghuwanshi said, was to “really understand the context and not push your assumptions on people”—not to parachute in and solve problems “but learn from Kasigau's residents what they want” help with and co-develop community-oriented solutions: .

Climate change is expected to make sub-Saharan Africa warmer and drier. In @NatureComms, @SeqH2O & co. explore how this affects the burden of collecting water—with impacts for health, hygiene, income, and gender equity: .

Congratulations to @DevEngBerkeley Prof. @agogino on winning an inaugural Berkeley Climate Action Proof-of-Concept Award for climate-focused multimodal methane (CH4) sensing!.

For communities, most policy standards for "modern energy" are a connection to an electrical grid. But in a new paper in @NatCities, Prof. Dan Kammen and colleagues show a simple connection does not equal affordable, reliable electricity: .

"If the impact part is missing from a business, it’s not very sustainable.”. @carbonsustainai — a venture by Paul Bryzek, a 2023 @BigIdeasContest winner — helps small and medium businesses with the onerous work of tracking their carbon emissions: .

Ashmita Kumar and Code Blue — her @BigIdeasContest-winning innovation — are piloting her AI-powered in-phone stroke-detection tech with @UCSF and are appearing this week at the Atlantic Coast Conference InVenture Prize:.

The latest from the chair of our board of trustees:.In @CMR_UCBerkeley, Laura Tyson breaks down how public & private capital markets innovate to fund investments to drive the transition to a net zero economy—& the importance of policies to galvanize them:

Attention, Berkeley undergrads!. Join a community of students seeking to make an impact on poverty and inequality!. The Global Poverty and Practice minor is hosting an info session:. This Friday, 12pm, Zoom. RSVP here:

Congratulations to @ElizabetHausler on her election to @theNAEng! . Dr. Hausler was recognized "for transformational impact as an international social entrepreneur, saving lives by building sustainable communities with natural hazard resilience.".

We have our finalists!. Out of 150+ apps, here are the final 15 student teams of the 2024–25 @BigIdeasContest—from an AI-powered device to restore Alzheimer’s patients’ autonomy to a sustainable medical product replacing single-use plastics in healthcare:

And the results are in!. The 2024 Development Engineering Photography Contest invited students to submit photos and videos that show what DevEng means to them and to capture the impact of their work over the summer through creative media:.

Congratulations to @DevEngBerkeley Class of 2024's @AnurikaJoshua on winning the @ihouseberkeley Executive Director Community Impact Award!.

Co-coordinated by Economics and @DevEngBerkeley Prof. Clair Brown, the UC Berkeley Climate and Society Center at @IRLEUCB grounds policy recommendations in rigorous research and community input in service of climate resiliency and environmental justice:

The Blum Center celebrates the life of President Jimmy Carter, who advanced solutions to global conflicts, championed human rights, and, at the @CarterCenter, continued to “Wage Peace, Fight Disease, Build Hope” for people everywhere: