The winners are as follows:
Bio-Inspired Innovation:
1st place, $10,000 - Biologically Inspired Microfluidic Silk Spinning by David Breslauer
2nd place, $5,000 - Stickling like a Mussel by Eddie Wang
Curricular Innovation:
1st place, $5,000 - Modern Slavery Course by Judge Hensley and Emily Kim
2nd place, $3,000 - Social entrepreneurship course series by Michael Pearce, Jason Kibbey, and Matt Evans, and Luke Dunnington
3rd place, $2,000 - Battery Technologies course by Paul Albertus, Ilan Gur Venkat Srinivasan
Global Poverty Reduction:
1st place, $10,000 - Berkeley Arsenic Alleviation Group by Johanna Mathieu, Tasnuva Khan, Kosar Jahani, Mehmet Seflek
2nd place, $5,000 - Poverty Reduction in Panama - Reducing the use of disposable batteries in a Ngobe village by Anna Zaniewski
3rd place, $3,000 - Mobilizing the Carbon Market to Fight Poverty in Darfur and the Developing World by Kayje Booker, Reynoldo Guerra, Lisa Thompson
4th place, $2,000 - Returning to Microfinance's Mission: Improving Lives of the Poorest - The Need to Evaluate Health among Haiti's Poorest by Jade Benjamin Chung, Rita Hamad, Richard Lowe, Jonathan Snowden
4th place, $2,000 - Iganga Economic Empowerment: A Holistic Approach to Rural Development in Eastern Uganda by Winnie Hung, Brent Anderson, Niny Khor
Green Cities:
1st place, $5,000 - CalCap by Scott Zimmerman and Fahmida Ahmed
2nd place, 3,000 - Urban Eco Blocks by Erin O'Mahoney Cubbison
3rd place, $2,000 - Green Cement by John Anderson
Improving Student Life:
Undergraduate:
1st place, $5,000 - Residential Service Community by Brittany Murlas
2nd place, $3,000 - Interfaith Action by Hosna Sheikholeslami, Jonathan Blake, Daniel Saver, Carson Baucher
3rd place, $2000 - OUTlet LGBTQ Online Advising by Aaron Cook
Graduate:
1st place, $5,000 - The Berkeley Project by Angela Ngo
2nd place, $3,000 - Students for a Safer Southside by Amber Woodburn
IT for Society:
Also see http://www.citris-uc.org/event/citriswhitepapercompetitionawards
$8,500 each:
Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis, submitted by UC Berkeley students David Breslauer, Robi Maamari, Alison Lynch, Gene Cho and Katrina Lin
Coupling Output-based Aid and Mobile Technologies, from UC Berkeley students Ben Bellows, Mahad Ibrahim, Sonesh Surana and Melissa Ho
Special Prize for Best Use of IT for Rural America ($5000) to the Summer of Service Technology Institute submitted by UC Santa Cruz students Christina Hamill and Julie Caso.
Second prize, $3000 to UC Berkeley student Jesse Leaman for his proposal - Information Technology Platform to Help Motorized Wheelchair Users Achieve Universal Access.
Third prize was shared by two proposals, each receiving $2000:
iCare: Direct Person-to-Person Charity for Natural Disaster Relief by UC Berkeley students Anand Kulkarni, Urvashi Gupta, and Ephrat Bitton,
Developing Interactive Lifecycle Assessment Tools for Consumer-level Goods and Services by UC Berkeley students Scott Zimmerman and Chris Jones
Neglected Diseases:
1st place, $10,000 - Improving Reproductive Healthcare Delivery in Developing Regions by Ben Bellows, Fred Bagenda, Mahad Ibrahim, Melissa Ho, Sonesh Surana, Edgar Mulogo
2nd place, $5,000 - Microneedle-based Vaccine Delivery by Zack Lee, Fatima Nawaz, Karl Saldanha, Samuel Tia
3rd place, $3,000 - SeroScreen: A Point-of-Care Diagnostic Device for the Devloping World by J. Tanner Nevill, Nicholas Toriello, Anat Caspi, Suzanne Welty
4th place, $2,000 - Diabetes Funders Project by Justin Altschuler
Open Ideas:
1st place, $5,000 - Social Entrepreneurship by Matt Evans, Jason Kibbey, Michael Pearce
2nd place, $3,000 - Partner Notification for HIV Prevention - Cameroon by Suzanne Welty, Prof. Pius Tih, Thomas Welty
3rd place, $2,000 - Biofuels for Panama by Jit Battacharya
3rd place, $2,000 - Racism and Inequity in Structures of Education (RISE) to the Forefront, an Undergraduate Organization and Project by Candace Full
3rd place, $2,000 - Student Parent Outreach by Christyna Serrano
3rd place, $2,000 - Homeless Mental Health by Karandeep Samran et al
Science, Technology, and Engineering Policy (STEP) (also see http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~step/wpc.htm):
$2,000, 1st Place: Incentivizing Air Capture Through Emissions Offsets and Greenhouse Gas Property by Derek Lemoine
$1,500, 2nd Place: The Berkeley City Ordinance on Nanotechnology by Javiera Barandiaran
$500, 3rd Place: Policy Initiatives for Safe Realization of Synthetic Biology’s Power by Eric Steen and Jeffrey Dietrich
$500, 3rd Place: Bringing Neutrality to Network Neutrality by Kai Zhu
Synthetic Biology:
1st place, $1,500 - Escherichia coli Based Red Blood Cell Substitutes: Cheap, High Volume, and Totally Awesome by Austin Day
2nd place, $500 - Environmentally Self-Regulating Bacterial Network (ESRBN) by David Tulga
A Fact Sheet with descriptions of all the winning proposals will be available in the next few weeks. Additionally, the winning submissions who agreed to online public dissemination of their papers will be posted on the contest site in the next few weeks.
In addition to receiving funding for their proposals, award recipients will also have the opportunity to post their projects on the Big Ideas marketplace site. We are also looking for ways to support more of the excellent student proposals we received in the weeks and months ahead. Feel free to visit bigideas.berkeley.edu or contact Annie Yeh with further questions about this.
Congratulations to everyone!
Sincerely,
Tom Kalil
Chancellor's Office and Big Ideas @ Berkeley