Posts by Keith McAleer
How SCET director is protecting trees needed for COVID vaccine
The Sutardja Center’s Alt: Meat Lab Director and Industry Fellow, Ricardo San Martin, was recently featured in the Atlantic for his work on the cultivation of the Chilean soapbark tree, Quillaja saponaria, which contains valuable extracts called saponins, a key ingredient in an upcoming COVID-19 vaccine candidate being developed by Novavax. Novavax made headlines in July…
Read MoreRe-watch Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna at the A. Richard Newton Series
Data-X Lab Launches Data-X Online, Democratizing Access to its Popular Course
The University of California, Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) has redesigned its popular course, Applied Data Science with Venture Applications, (or Data-X for short) to provide free access to its videos, slides, code, and resources on a single website. Students around the globe can now teach themselves the latest data science, tools,…
Read MoreFounder’s Playbook: Guitar Hero’s Founder Gives Advice on Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur
The Founder’s Playbook is an interview series presented by UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. On The Founder’s Playbook, we speak to entrepreneurs & innovators to discover their routines, fail-ups, mindsets, and get the real stories behind what it’s like to create something new. Today we have the co-founder of Guitar Hero and…
Read MoreY Combinator’s Geoff Ralston Gives Guidance to Students on How to Create a Startup While in School
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology hosted an event with Y Combinator to help students understand how to apply to the top accelerator and hear from YC President Geoff Ralston on how to create a startup while attending school. The full video is available below. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to…
Read MoreThe Founder’s Playbook: New SCET video series focuses on founder routines, fail-ups, and mindsets
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley has just launched a new video series called The Founder’s Playbook that aims to get the real stories of what it’s like for innovators to create something new. Subscribe to SCET YouTube to follow the Founder’s Playbook. The series, hosted by…
Read MoreStartup Semester students among winning teams in Google Developer Student Club Solution Challenge 2020
Three students from the Spring 2020 cohort of SCET’s Startup Semester program were among the winning teams of the Google’s Developer Student Club’s Solution Challenge 2020. The goal of the challenge was to “use technology to solve a local problem together with community.” Submissions were accepted from more than 60 countries and 800 universities around…
Read MoreHow SCET is moving its largest class online
The A. Richard Newton Lecture Series has long been one of SCET’s most important courses for helping to educate and train entrepreneurs at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2005, the Series has hosted some of the world’s most influential founders, innovators and visionaries to tell the story of how they created a disruptive startup,…
Read MoreSCET awards $50,000 in grants to support innovation and changemakers on campus
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at the University of California, Berkeley has just awarded $50,000 to three UC Berkeley courses to support innovation on campus and build new connections to share pedagogy best practices. The Instructional Innovation Grants will help SCET share insights learned from its award-winning Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship curriculum, including…
Read MoreSCET Wins Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation Award
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley has won an Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation Award at 2019 The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) conference. Learn more about what led to the award here.
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