When Rachel Dzombak and Vivek Rao began planning for the spring 2020 Development Engineering course “Innovation in Disaster Response,” part of their motivation was to get students to think about the use of technology during past disasters. But by early March, it was clear to Dzombak and Rao that the COVID-19 pandemic was increasing the relevancy of their class in ways no one could have predicted.
By Tamara Straus Daniel Kammen asserts that everything he has learned about communicating scientific research to a lay audience has been “by accident.” Yet Kammen,
Shankar Sastry Two thousand and eighteen has been called a watershed moment in global poverty reduction. It was the year—according to two major analyses—that more
Joeva Sean Rock, an outstanding instructor in international development who researches agricultural biotechnology, food sovereignty, and environmental governance, has joined the Blum Center’s Global Poverty & Practice program as Lecturer.
By Shankar Sastry This winter, the Blum Center was among the many groups in academia and development to celebrate the recipients of the Nobel Prize
