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Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grant Awardees Announced

June 25, 2020
Bill Allison
Back in February, we began to put out the call for innovation proposals from all over campus, asking them to share their alignment with the Chancellor's top strategic priorities and also to address what the University needs NOW. For a top research University, no matter what hard times we're having, innovation isn't just a "nice to have" - it's an essential ingredient to maintaining our excellence and scaling access & equity for a Berkeley education. Many proposals we received tackle Berkeley's response to remote learning beyond Zoom during COVID-19.

VRTutor

FY20 Awardee Profile: VRTutor

Awardee:

Bjoern Hartmann, Associate Professor, EECS, Faculty Director, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

VRTutor will help students of studio-based art and design classes learn virtually. Existing VR applications offer rich immersive environments for students, however students need to transition between wearing their headsets to use VR software, then take them off again to follow video tutorials on bCourses...

Lucid Learning

FY20 Awardee Profile: Lucid Learning

Awardee:

Eric Paulos, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley EECS Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) Director, Master of Design (MDes) Chief Learning Officer, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Director, CITRIS Invention Lab

Lucid Learning is a tool to help students practice collaboration early in their careers. The proposed technology aims to foster a process for growing ideas, debating,...

Insight XR

FY20 Awardee Profile: InsightXR

Awardees:

Luisa Caldas, PhD, Professor, Department of Architecture, Director XR Lab - Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Laboratory, Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Elnaz Tafrihi Bailey...

RTL AR-VR

FY20 Awardee Profile: RTL AR/VR Community of Practice and Support Program

Awardee:

Shawna Dark, Ken Lutz, Chris Hoffman, Owen McGrath and Oliver Heyer, Research Teaching & Learning

RTL will partner with the CTO and our 2020 Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grant awardees Insight XR,...

Ethnic Studies Podcast - AR

FY20 Awardee Profile: “Scaffolding Stories/Building Communities”: Ethnic Studies and Podcast/Augmented Reality in the 21st Century Campus

Awardee:

Dr. Pablo Gonzalez, Ethnic Studies Department and Chicana/o Studies Program

Scaffolding Stories/Building Communities is a Podcast and AR program will help students bring their Ethnic Studies courses to life, putting them in charge of telling stories with their families and...

PEARL Project

FY20 Awardee Profile: PEARL Project

Awardee: Amin Jazaeri, Department of Physics

The Physics Department has also been thinking about the challenges of how to do social distance learning and do physics experiments. Physics Experiments Accessed Remotely Laboratory (PEARL) Project1 allows students to have real and physical interaction with laboratory equipment...

BeArS@Home

FY20 Awardee Profile: BeArS@Home

Awardees:

Anne Baranger, Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Chemistry Lead Lecturers: Alexis Shusterman, Michelle Douskey, and...