Design opportunities digest - July 8th
Amy Dinh
Hello All,
For this week's digest, take a look at some more courses and job positions being offered for the upcoming 2022-23 school year and exciting events ranging from entertainment to skill-gaining opportunities.
Cheers!
Amy
General Opportunities
Fall courses for SCET
New Fall Class in Entrepreneurship and Technology
Events
Careers in Plant-Based Foods Info Session
Expanding Views: Lia Halloran in Conversation with Maria Popova
Facing West Shadows: Phantasmagoria
PRIMIER22: Experiences of Time
SFMOMA Free Admission - Diego Rivera's America
Museum Craft Design’s New Exhibitions
Career
BiomeForge Designer
The Student Environmental Research Center is Hiring!
AIGA Portfolio Festival
Innovation for Youth Seeking Graduate Student Researchers
General Opportunities
Fall courses for SCET
Join SCET where aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators take deep dives into the world of technology entrepreneurship and innovation. They offer courses each fall and spring semester on a range of topic areas that are relevant for today. From Deplastify the Planet to Alternative Meat to Innovating with 5G, AI, and Mobile, they reimagine the future. Check out some of the startups that were developed through our classes!
All courses are open to all majors. Learn more about the fall offerings or see what might interest you in the future.
New Fall Class in Entrepreneurship and Technology
New classes have been added to the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology for any undergraduate students who are interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology. All SCET classes can be used towards a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Technology.
The new Challenge Lab | Connected Life: How Mobile/AI/Internet of Things Will Improve Our Lives (ENGIN 183C · 4 Units) explores the use of technologies that are at the foundation of connectivity for people, communities, and businesses, factories, and the environment. Note: Submit the application to be considered for enrollment.
Events
Careers in Plant-Based Foods Info Session
Learn about the exciting opportunities in the rapidly growing plant-based food industry. Students with backgrounds in plant sciences, chemistry, biology, engineering, business, and social sciences are encouraged to join to hear Dr. Homyak’s journey spanning academia and industry working for some of the leading plant-based food companies and startups.
Dr. Homyak will also talk about her Fall 2022 class “Technical Foundations for Alternative Ingredients and Foods” which will prepare students for technical roles in the plant-based food industry and startups by helping them understand concepts behind processing, formation, and characterization of alternative ingredients and foods.
This event will take place on July 12 at 4 p.m. You can register here.
Expanding Views: Lia Halloran in Conversation with Maria Popova
Join us for a soaring conversation between celebrated writer Maria Popova and multi-disciplinary artist Lia Halloran, presented in celebration of Halloran’s current installation at the Exploratorium (Double Horizon, 2019.) With an eye to the work, they will explore broader questions about creativity and the role of art as a lens on reality, animated by their shared passion for science.
This event will take place Thursday, July 14 • 7:30 p.m. at the Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum.
Click here to learn more.
Facing West Shadows: Phantasmagoria
Join us for the premiere of Facing West Shadows: Phantasmagoria. Performed by the Bay Area collective Facing West Shadows, the work is a live, multimedia, shadow-theater opera inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Robber Bridegroom.” It incorporates puppetry and shadow play, video projection, stop-motion animation, and live music.
Event dates and location:
Saturday, July 30 • 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Sunday, July 31 • 2 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
Click here for more information.
PRIMIER22: Experiences of Time
PRIMER is an annual conference hosted by the Design Futures Initiative (DFI), a nonprofit based in SF, designed to bring the global Speculative Futures community together.
Join us for the virtual event on September 21-24. Click here for more information.
SFMOMA Free Admission - Diego Rivera's America
SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) will be showcasing the work of Diego Rivera in the exhibition: Diego Rivera's America. The exhibition consists of over 150 of Rivera's paintings, frescoes, drawings, large-scale film projections of murals, and more inspired by his travels in Mexico and the United States.
This exhibition is offering free admission to students and employees of UCB and will be displayed from July 16, 2022- January 2, 2023.
Museum Craft Design’s New Exhibitions
Robyn Horn: Material Illusions features Robin Horn’s larger-than-life wooden sculptures and paintings which were mostly created during the 2020 quarantine. Horn explores how the passage of time relates to material, decay, and entropy through mirroring aspects of natural environments.
Iris Eichenberg: Where Worlds Fail presents forty unique works that demonstrate Eichenberg’s examination of self and the impact of place and community. Her work engages the viewer in conversations that address issues such as gender, identity, and Heimat—a German word denoting the inner peace found upon reaching a safe haven.
Purchase tickets for Material Illusions and Where worlds Fail here.
Careers
BiomeForge Designer
Looking for an undergraduate with experience in graphic and website design to help create a website, logo, and excellent fundraising materials for a new UC Berkeley science focus area called BiomeForge.
The group is run by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield and focuses on DNA-level control of impactful microbial communities like those in the human gut, cow rumens, and plants. There would be an initial unpaid internship period, but we are open to transitioning this to a paid position if the candidate is a good fit within our organization.
Contact Ben Rubin (bru...@berkeley.edu) and Brady Cress (cr...@berkeley.edu) in the microbiome engineering group if you're interested.
The Student Environmental Resource Center is Hiring!
The Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) is the environmental hub on campus, providing resources and support to the environmental community at Cal. SERC cultivates a collaborative space to strengthen the collective effectiveness of the sustainability community and provides resources for students to actualize their visions of a more equitable, socially just, and resilient future.
These 6 different positions are available for the 2022-23 school year:
Social Marketing Associate
Media Associate
Environmental Justice Associate
Outdoor Education Associate
Leaflet Editor-in-Chief
Graduate Student Liaison
Applications are now open and the deadline to apply is July 15th, 11:59 pm PT. You can learn more about the open positions here.
AIGA Portfolio Festival
The AIGA Portfolio Festival is a virtual event supporting students, recent graduates, emerging designers, and those looking to refresh their portfolios. Focused on mentorship, collaboration, and learning, the Portfolio Festival features content from design practitioners, influencers, educators, and partners, who can help you tailor your portfolio to your next opportunity.
Innovation for Youth Seeking Graduate Student Researchers
The Youth Equity Discovery Initiative (YEDI) is a research training and mentoring program targeted at undergraduate students with lived experiences of inequalities who are working on youth equity-focused faculty research. The program consists of five core components: research experience, mentorship, cohort connection, research skill-building, and career/professional development.
As YEDI GSR’s you will be mentors, liaisons, assist in student recruitment, plan cohort building, and social activities for scholars, create social media content, and implement evaluation efforts.
The researcher must commit to 25% time for fall and spring. To apply send a cover letter and CV to Vivian Bui at vp...@berkeley.edu. For more information click here
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