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Focus Area: Sustainability

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Meet the spring 2019 Innovation Catalysts student grant winners

The nine chosen projects sprung from various sources of inspiration, from a classroom to a camping trip, but all are united by a drive to use technology and design to benefit an individual, a community, or society at large.

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Design innovation then/now: Designing infrastructure

From 1868 to today, Berkeley students and faculty have played pioneering roles in designing infrastructure for California and the world.

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Flipper Filter

Flipper Filter is a bioinspired concept for an economically and environmentally friendly device designed to help clean the oceans of microplastics and protect marine fauna.

Student Community

Engineers without Borders

Engineers Without Borders aims to support sustainable, community-driven engineering projects to meet basic human needs.

Student Community

Cal Super Mileage Vehicle Team

Using wide-ranging tools for prototyping and fabrication, this team designs fuel-efficient vehicles to be adapted into real-world transportation concepts.

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Innovation Catalysts program boosts student innovations

This spring, ten diverse student teams unlocked potential in their design projects with support from a new grant program.

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Introducing the inaugural Innovation Catalysts cohort

A diverse group of project teams will receive funding, mentorship, and resources at Jacobs Hall and the CITRIS Invention Lab as they build on their ideas over the spring semester.