News Welcoming New Faculty for Spring ’22 The spring ’22 semester has officially begun, and with that, we are pleased to welcome four new instructors to our team! Each instructor will be teaching our core-curriculum courses, DES INV 211,…
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), …
News Winter 2021 MDes Showcase Recap INAUGURAL MDES SHOWCASE On Friday, December 10th, 2021, the first and second cohorts of MDes students enjoyed a full-day at Jacobs Hall as part of the inaugural MDes Showcase. …
News MDes Student Eleanor Mayes (FA22) receives the Arcus Social Justice Corp Fellowship Eleanor Mayes (MDes FA22) has just been awarded an Arcus Social Justice Corp (ASJC) Fellowship! The ASJC is a new fellowship program in the College of Environmental Design that offers significant debt-relief to select graduate students who intend to do social justice work after graduation. …
News We are hiring! Join our creative team at the Jacobs Institute! The Jacobs Institute is looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our creative team as the new Director of Career Development. The Director of Career Development will develop and launch a new comprehensive career development program for the Master of Design (MDes) and undergraduate design students pursing the Berkeley Certificate of Design and Innovation at Jacobs Institute. …
Events News Jacobs & MDes 2021 Winter Design Showcase MDes will participate in this semester’s Design Showcase, a three-day symposium of student work and presentations, organized by the Jacobs Institute. DECEMBER 8–10, 2021 @ JACOBS HALL December 8–9: Jacobs DES INV and affiliated courses, …
News Jacobs Hall ranked #1 makersapce! UC Berkeley was recently ranked number one in campus makerspaces by Great Value Colleges, with the Jacobs Institute receiving a special shout-out as the most impressive of the 5 on campus. …
News Student Work Design Despite Disciplines Podcast series Given the opportunity, designers will endlessly debate. The Design Despite Disciplines Podcast series is now published. This podcast series seeks to uncover the most pressing debates that cut across design disciplines, …
News MDes Admissions Open September 15, 2021 We are pleased to announce that applications for graduate admission to join the third cohort of the Berkeley Master of Design (MDes) in Fall 2022 are now open (September 15, …
News Launching In-Person! FA21 Orientation The MDes program is so excited to announce that we have officially launched in-person for the first time! After spending the inaugural semester learning remotely, it was invigorating to have both the SP22 and FA22 cohorts meet on campus and go through orientation together (following UC Berkeley COVID-19 policies). …