News Young Entrepreneur award Congratulations to our former student Abhi Ghavalkar for being named one of five winners of the Young Entrepreneur award presented by the Indian Achievers Forum from over 4,000 nominations worldwide. …
News SF Design Week Awards Winners MDes design project EIDOS is an SF Design Week winner! Congratulations Roland Saekow, Eleanor Mayes, Akash Mahajan, Debbie Yuen, and Lula Duloup for this great recognition. 👏👏 Check EIDOS award here SF Design Week – …
News Kathy Wang Named a Finalist for 2022 SXSW Innovation Awards for VR Project, Smell Revived Congratulations to Yuting Wang (Kathy, MDes Fall’ 22), whose project, Smell Revived, was selected as a finalist in the Wearable Tech category for the 24th annual SXSW (South by Southwest) Innovation awards. …
News MDes Student Jennifer Wong Wins Microsoft’s Hack for Mental Health Award Congratulations to Jennifer Wong (MDes Fall ’22), whose startup, Empathie, is the recent recipient of Microsoft’s “Hack for Mental Health” award. Empathie is a self-guided mobile app that delivers affordable, …
News MDes Students Are Honored at SF Design Week Awards! Five Berkeley MDes students and their teams have been honored with a prestigious San Francisco Design Week award by the nonprofit organization San Francisco Design Week (SFDW). These projects are recognized by these awards for their ground-breaking design and commitment to thought leadership in meeting the needs of a positive future for society. …
News MDes Student Team Awarded the Jacobs Innovation Catalyst Ignite Grant MDes Student Team, Abhi Ghavalkar (MDes, SP22), Mercedes Saldaña (MDes, SP22), Penny Lin (MDes, SP22), have been awarded the Jacobs Innovation Catalyst Ignite Grant for their project Limb-O2 Multi-patient Attachment for Medical Ventilators. …
News MDes Students Win the Linda Tischler Award by Fast Company Congrats to six of our incoming MDes students (Abhi Ghavalkar, Franklyn Bucknor, Kailin Li, Roland Saekow, Titus Ebbecke, and Xiaobai Ji) for being awarded the Linda Tischler award at the Innovation by Design ceremony hosted by Fast Company! …
News MDes students win Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Congratulations to MDes students Akash Mahajan, Debbie Yuen, Eleanor Mayes, Roland Saekow, and Lula Duloup for winning the Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas awards in the Student category with their project EIDOS. …
News Spring Mentors Each semester, MDes students get the opportunity to learn from and interact with various invited guest speakers and mentors. This spring, Design Frameworks and Capstone Studio have a great line-up of guests with backgrounds ranging from critical theory to robotic fabrication to XR technologies to strategic foresight….
News Meet Prana, a ventilator startup Prana is a passive, multi-patient attachment for medical ventilators that allows up to four patients to share a single continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine safely. Ventilators are a critical medical device used to treat numerous respiratory diseases from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), …