News from February 2015
Press Release: Journalism for Social Change
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 26, 2015 BERKELEY, CA – On March 4th the University of California, Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley’s MOOCLab and EdX and will launch the first ever Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) focused on using solution-based journalism to drive social change. The seven-week course, Journalism for Social Change (J…
GSPP Students named Global Development Fellows
Can movie screenings have a social impact in rural Southeast Asia? This summer, GSPP student Cesar Zulaica hopes to find out. He and fellow GSPP student Diogo Prosdocimi are two of a handful of UC Berkeley graduate students selected to be a part of USAID’s Global Development Fellowship, which supports “cutting edge solutions to address... pressing development challenges.” Before coming to the Goldman School, Diogo worked as the Under Secretary for Transport Regulation in the state…
Time to implement the US-China climate accord
In the global climate fight, 2015 could be the year for innovation, collaboration and partnership. We have already see this in operation with the energy and climate language associated with the nuclear trade and verification elements of President Barack Obama’s diplomatic trip to India, which drew to a close this week. As he charts a path this year, let’s not forget that Obama legitimately helped rewrite the energy and environmental playing field in 2014. The United States Environmental…