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SmartDrug, the winners of the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

SmartDrug wins first place prize at BMoE Bootcamp

By Ella Jensen / August 27, 2019 / Comments Off on SmartDrug wins first place prize at BMoE Bootcamp

SmartDrug took home the top prize at the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp on August 23. SmartDrug is an automatic drug development technology that gets rid of fatal side effects.  SmartDrug’s team consisted of members Arpinderjeet Singh, Ruchirangad Sharma, and Roalla Toy from UC Berkeley, Ka Wang (Frankie) Wong from Hong Kong Baptist University, and…

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BMoE Bootcamp features recent Sutardja Center alumni on entrepreneurship panel

By Ella Jensen / August 21, 2019 / Comments Off on BMoE Bootcamp features recent Sutardja Center alumni on entrepreneurship panel

Young, entrepreneurial former UC Berkeley students met for a panel discussion at the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship (BMoE) Bootcamp held this week at UC Berkeley. The panel featured Mai Nguyen, former Berkeley undergraduate and PhD student and the CEO/Co-Founder of OptoCeutics, and former Berkeley undergraduate student Matthew Milford, co-founder of Foresight.   The panel was moderated…

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Now Hiring for Data-X Spring Course

By Ella Jensen / August 20, 2019 / Comments Off on Now Hiring for Data-X Spring Course

The Industrial Engineering and Operations department at UC Berkeley is now hiring one co-instructor for the Data-X spring semester course, as well as multiple graduate student instructors.  The course is listed as INDENG 135/290 Applied Data Science with Venture Applications (Data-X) and will be offered through the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.  This highly-applied…

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Paid Research Opportunity with Berkeley Alt. Meat Lab and Millipore Sigma: Clean Meat/Lab Grown Meat

By Ella Jensen / August 20, 2019 / Comments Off on Paid Research Opportunity with Berkeley Alt. Meat Lab and Millipore Sigma: Clean Meat/Lab Grown Meat

Interested in researching alternative meat? The Berkeley Alt. Meat Lab and Millipore Sigma are currently seeking undergraduate or graduate student researchers in areas surrounding clean meat and lab grown meat. The researcher will conduct research and develop a proposal on how to establish a best practice approach to measure and modulate critical quality attributes of…

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Sumeru Ventures to be featured at Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

By Ella Jensen / August 16, 2019 / Comments Off on Sumeru Ventures to be featured at Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
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European Innovation Academy students share experiences from their summer in Portugal

By Ella Jensen / August 14, 2019 / Comments Off on European Innovation Academy students share experiences from their summer in Portugal

Over the summer, Berkeley students attended the European Innovation Academy (EIA) in Cascais, Portugal for an intensive, fast-paced learning experience, where they learned from venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, executives from Silicon Valley companies, and experts from across the globe. For one week prior to the Academy, Berkeley students met in Porto, Portugal to build the…

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Disrupt Berkeley welcomes students of all academic backgrounds to improve campus systems through entrepreneurship

By Ella Jensen / August 13, 2019 / Comments Off on Disrupt Berkeley welcomes students of all academic backgrounds to improve campus systems through entrepreneurship

Have you ever been frustrated by one or more of the UC Berkeley administrative systems? This coming fall, students have the chance to address problems and shortcomings with UC Berkeley administrative systems in the Challenge Lab course titled “Disrupt Berkeley.” The course, which still has open seats for enrollment, will address outdated and complicated UC…

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Visiting scholar Claus Rehfeld concludes his time with SCET

By Ella Jensen / July 16, 2019 / Comments Off on Visiting scholar Claus Rehfeld concludes his time with SCET

If Claus Rehfeld could start his visiting scholarship at the Sutardja Center all over again, he’d focus less on finding the exact right expert in his field to healthcare data, and spend more time connecting and listening to the diverse people that visit the Center.  Claus, a visiting Ph.D scholar from Denmark, will conclude his…

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Fall 2019 class combats plastic waste through innovation

By Ella Jensen / July 16, 2019 / Comments Off on Fall 2019 class combats plastic waste through innovation

Interested in creatively solving the problems of an overly plastic planet? A one to two unit experiential seminar titled “Deplastify the Planet” will be available this fall semester for innovative students to work with companies hoping to solve the issue of plastic waste.  Deplastify the Planet, which will be held on Wednesday afternoons in downtown…

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Introducing “Disrupt Berkeley,” a Fall 2019 Challenge Lab Course

By Ella Jensen / July 9, 2019 / Comments Off on Introducing “Disrupt Berkeley,” a Fall 2019 Challenge Lab Course

If you had the chance to re-design any administrative system at UC Berkeley, which would you choose? That is the question that students will be answering this fall in the “Disrupt Berkeley” Challenge Lab course offered through the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET). Through experiential learning and entrepreneurial product creation, students in “Disrupt…

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