Yesterday we officially welcomed our first cohort of students to the exciting new UC Berkeley MDes program! As I was reflecting on how to welcome the students and capture my hopes and goals for the MDes program,

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Nimble Spaces, co-founded by Roland Saekow (MDes 22), Titus Ebbecke (MDes 22), Lu Liu (MBA 21), Yifeng Wang (MArch 21), and Yue(Abby) Gao (MArch 21), was accepted into the Berkeley SkyDeck HotDesk Program as part of its Fall 2020 cohort.

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Adam Huth, Berkeley MDes student, and his sister Alec, UC Berkeley student, launched a new business with the start of COVID-19. Smiles by Mail is a small lifestyle webstore that uses snail mail to bring handmade,

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Students accepted to the Master of Design program are eligible to apply for the Mastercard Foundation Scholar program, a program that provides support to master’s degree students from Sub-Saharan African countries who are academically talented and committed to transformative change on the continent.

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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!

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One thing we’re most excited about with this cohort is the diverse backgrounds and experiences each admit is bringing with them. The Spring 2022 cohort is composed of 45% men and 55% women;

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