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Posts by Ainsley Cunningham

AI-enhanced robot from Goldberg’s Automation Lab can collect laundry

By Ainsley Cunningham | November 28, 2023

Out of the laboratory of UC Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg, director of the CITRIS People and Robots legacy initiative: Researchers have come a couple steps closer to building a robot…

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How can we defang disinformation? CITRIS PIs offer solutions

By Ainsley Cunningham | November 21, 2023

The skyrocketing popularity of social media and advancement of consumer technology in recent years has come with a major pitfall: the equally unprecedented spread of misinformation. Digital fabrication is only…

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CITRIS Health releases ACTIVATE community engagement guide

By Ainsley Cunningham | November 21, 2023

CITRIS Health and the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities, in partnership with Ampla Health and an agricultural grower, have released the ACTIVATE Community Engagement Implementation Guide, a how-to…

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CITRIS and CLTC partner to bring cybersecurity internships to UC students

By Ainsley Cunningham | November 14, 2023

CITRIS and the Banatao Institute have partnered with the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity to integrate cybersecurity into the CITRIS Workforce Innovation Program. The collaboration will establish a cybersecurity…

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CITRIS-supported UC Santa Cruz student team wins at sustainability decathlon 

By Ainsley Cunningham | November 14, 2023

A UC Santa Cruz student team supported by a 2022 campus seed award — now known as an Interdisciplinary Innovation Program, or I2P award — scored a series of accolades…

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Crittenden sees opportunities for higher ed in White House’s new Executive Order on AI

By Ainsley Cunningham | November 7, 2023

Camille Crittenden, executive director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and a member of the University of California Presidential Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, has penned an op-ed on the…

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Fall Research Exchange series tackled AI framing, learning models and safety

By Ainsley Cunningham | November 6, 2023

In fall 2023, the CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, alongside the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS) and the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Laboratory, hosted…

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As heard on KQED: EcoBlock seeks neighborhood-wide electrification

By Ainsley Cunningham | November 2, 2023

As profiled in a recent episode of KQED Public Radio’s housing and climate change podcast, the Oakland EcoBlock, a project led by researchers affiliated with the California Institute for Energy…

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CITRIS Foundry opens applications for spring 2024 cohort

By Ainsley Cunningham | October 30, 2023

Applications are now open for the spring 2024 cohort of the CITRIS Foundry startup incubator. The CITRIS Foundry helps University of California entrepreneurs develop innovative ideas into startups ready to seek…

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Farid addresses rise of deepfakes in Nature 

By Ainsley Cunningham | October 24, 2023

In a recent feature story in the scientific journal Nature, CITRIS PI and UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid commented on the proliferation — and danger — of deepfakes: falsified images…

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About BEGIN

The Berkeley Gateway to Innovation (BEGIN) is the portal to the entrepreneurship community at UC Berkeley.

The goal of BEGIN is to help students, faculty, researchers, and other innovators understand the resources available at Berkeley to support educating entrepreneurs, commercializing research, and advancing startups.

BEGIN is funded in part by the State of California Assembly Bill 2664 for entrepreneurship and innovation expansion at the University of California, Berkeley .

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California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)

CITRIS Foundry

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Cradle to Commerce

Cyclotron Road

Energy and Biosciences Institute Entrepreneurial Business Incubator (EBI2)

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HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science

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SCET – Summer Venture Lab

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UCB Startup Fair

YC Co-Founder Matching @ SCET

Commercialization

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Intro to Lean Startup: NSF I-Corps Method

Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center

New Business Community Law Clinic

Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances

PhDX

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Community

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Inclusion

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Inclusive Innovation Equitable Entrepreneurship

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Funding

UC Berkeley Affiliated Funds*

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California Innovation Fund

Grants & Fellowships

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I School Innovators

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Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

Marvell Nanolab

ME Student Machine Shop

QB3 Cell and Tissue Analysis Facility

QB3 High-Throughput Screening Facility

Tory Burch Fellowship

New Venture Services

AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship & Development

Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship

Berkeley Institute of Data Science

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Blum Center Social Innovator OnRamp

Build the Future

EDGE in Tech Initiative at U.C.

FORM+FUND – Legal Support

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Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

Learn2Launch

Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center

Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology Program

Master of Engineering program

Master of Translational Medicine

Neurotech Collider Lab

Ollie Legal

Robinson Life Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program

SkyDeck ACE Intern Program

Startup@Berkeley Law

Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology

*All seven of these funds share about 1/2 of General Partner carry/return with UC Berkeley.

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