News Apply to the Innovation Catalysts Student Grant Program Each semester the Jacobs Innovation Catalysts student grant program supports student ideas and projects with up to $2000 of funding and other support. We support a wide range of projects at the intersection of design and technology innovation, …
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 – …
Alumni News Graduation 1st cohort SP22 Congratulations to our inaugural Berkeley MDes Cohort! On May 17th, the first cohort graduated from Cal’s Master of Design program, the first of its kind in the UC system. We are so proud of and inspired by your work, …
News JACOBS SPRING 2022 SHOWCASE On Friday, May 6, we enjoyed a full day at Jacobs Institute during the Spring Design Showcase featuring the work of students in the Master of Design. Students shared outcomes from their core courses Designing Emerging Technologies I & …
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 MDes Student Daisy Chen and Jiaxuan Ren’s work featured in MIT Reality Hack 2022 Congratulations to MDes students Daisy Chen and Jiaxuan Ren for getting their projects featured in MIT Reality Hack 2022! Daisy’s team project “Inclusive VR User Testing Tool” is selected as the grand finalist out of 60 teams and won the “XR for inclusion” prize sponsored by Snap AR. …
News MDes Announces Its Director of Career Development! We are delighted to share that Stephanie Bianco has been appointed the Director of Career Development for the MDes & the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation (JIDI)! Stephanie Bianco is a career educator with years of experience working in higher ed, …
News MDes Spring Break Over spring break, MDes students took some much-needed time to rest, relax, and explore. One group headed up to Napa for wine tasting and stargazing at their vineyard AirBnB. Another group of MDes students who stayed in the Bay for their break had a bonfire on the beaches of San Francisco. …
News Student Papers Accepted by the ACM CHI Conference Two MDes students’ papers, done in collaboration with EECS students, “WebTransceiVR – Asymmetric VR Collaboration At Scale “and “Generative VR: Spatial Interactions in Virtual Reality to Guide Generative Design “ have been accepted by the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction HCI. …