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LL.M. Program Profiles First Three Mastercard Foundation Scholars From Africa

November 20, 2024

The LL.M. Program shares profiles of the first three LL.M. Mastercard Foundation Scholars at UC Berkeley: Hudheifa Aden from Kenya with ties to Somalia, Agbor Tabe from Cameroon, and Getachew Gayzibayso from Ethiopia.

UC Berkeley and University of Nairobi collaborate on biomedical equipment design for low-resource settings

June 9, 2023

The UC Berkeley Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program supported this collaboration by UC Berkeley & University of Nairobi Collaboration on a six-week “Virtual Global Innovation Workshop” on biomedical equipment design for low-resource settings through a Faculty Seed Grant. Scholar Alum,...

Rocca Fellow Christine Wilkinson: A Leader in "Fence Ecology"

March 12, 2025

Christine Wilkinson is a conservation scientist specializing in carnivore and urban ecologies. They received their PhD at UC Berkeley and obtained A photo of Christine Wilkinson in East Africa holding binoculars with the wild landscape behind them.funding for their dissertation research through Rocca...

Mastercard Foundation Scholars thrive at UC Berkeley Journalism

March 5, 2025

Four gifted first-year students — Daniel Ekonde of Cameroon, James Mawien Manyuol of South Sudan, Victor Ochieng of Kenya and Jennifer Ugwa of Nigeria — are this year’s Mastercard Foundation Scholars at UC Berkeley Journalism, part of a campuswide program in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation that covers the educational costs of students seeking master’s degrees.

African Languages Spring 2025

December 6, 2024

Studying a language is an immediate way to immerse oneself in African knowledge systems.

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City and Regional Planning