Alumni News

Alumni Win Grant To Develop EdTech Capstone Project

Apr 15, 2021

TeacherPrints, a project developed in MIDS Capstone recently won a $25,000 grant as a Catalyst Prize winner by the Futures Forum on Learning.

How Data Science and Satellite Images Are Helping One Country Hand Out Cash

Apr 1, 2021

In a short film, Professor Josh Blumenstock explains how Berkeley researchers have facilitated a high-tech way for the government of Togo to identify people who need financial help in the pandemic and send them emergency cash.

Tim and Cristina (Courtesy of the couple)

Library School Alumni See a Link Between Yesterday and Today’s I School Students; Establish Fund

Mar 15, 2021

Cristina Campbell (MLIS ’77) and Tim DeWolf (MLS ’80) have established a fund to support I School doctoral students.

Ashkan Soltani, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Google Will Stop Using ‘Cookies’ to Track People; Alumnus Ashkan Soltani Says It May Be a Good Signal

Mar 9, 2021

Annette (Costley) Gaskin, 1932-2021 (photo via The Record-Courier)

Library Alumna Annette (Costley) Gaskin Dies at 88

Mar 9, 2021

Joe Hall delivers the keynote address at Commencement in 2018

Truth and Technology: Alumnus Joe Hall on Elections, Transparency, and Empowering People for Good

Jan 28, 2021

A little over a week after the 2020 election, 59 election security experts, including alumnus and noted election security expert Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Ph.D. ’08), issued a public letter refuting the claim that the 2020 election outcome had been altered through technical compromise.

Data For Good Fellowship Recipient Wants to Empower Rural Healthcare Providers with AI

Jan 21, 2021

Mahdieh Taher (MIDS ’20) has been awarded the Jack Larson Data for Good Fellowship for her work as a data engineer dedicated to improving medical diagnoses in rural areas.

Marc Faddoul and a tweet about his TikTok research

Algorithmic Transparency, and Marc Faddoul’s Very Good Year

Jan 19, 2021

MIMS alumnus Marc Faddoul, who works as a research scientist with Prof. Hany Farid, has made strides in algorithmic transparency this year with his social media research

Ashkan Soltani on Dating Apps Using Images From the Capitol to Ban Rioters’ Accounts

Jan 16, 2021