News Standing with AAPI and all BIPOC Communities We have been shocked by the recent violence in Georgia that took the lives of innocent people – six of these victims being of Asian descent and seven being women. …
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 Student Projects Selected as Finalists in Berkeley’s Big Ideas Contest Two MDes student projects have been selected as finalists in the Big Ideas competition at UC Berkeley. These award-winning projects are among 26 finalists out of 300 applications for this competition that provides training,…
News Seven Black Engineers Who Helped Shape the Future of Design Innovation Reposted with permission from Jacobs Institute In honor of Black History Month, we would like to recognize a number of Black engineers and academics whose contributions to the world of engineering and design have shaped the way we think, …
News 67 Things a UC Berkeley MDes Student Should Know 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, …
Events News MDes Application Deadline: January 4, 2021 Join the next generation of designers uniquely prepared to shape the future! Apply to Berkeley MDes by Monday, January 4, 2021 (8:59pm PST). The application to be part of the second Berkeley Master of Design cohort in Fall 2021 is due in 2 days! …
News MDes Student Team wins 2nd Place in CMYKxBART Designathon On November 14, 2020, Adam Huth (MDes Spring 22), David Zhou (MDes Spring 22), Effie Jia (MDes Spring 22), Franklyn Bucknor (MDes Spring 22), came together to participate in CMYKxBART Designathon, …
News Nimble Spaces, co-founded by MDes students, has joined Berkeley SkyDeck 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. …
News Smiles by Mail: MDes student business that brightens people’s lives during COVID-19 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, …
News Mastercard Foundation Scholar Program 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. …