Berkeley Marketplace funds student projects

Tom Kalil, President Clinton's former science and tech advisor who is now at UC Berkeley, wrote to tell me about an exciting new project he launched today at the University to enable ordinary people to support cool student projects on campus. Tom says:

"We launched an online marketplace today to help Berkeley students with great ideas for projects attract volunteers, mentors, money, and in-kind contributions. Berkeley students have compelling projects that, for example, expand access to safe drinking water, commercialize clean energy technologies, fight malaria, and provide healthcare to the uninsured.

The longer term goal is to create a replicable model for tapping the creativity, energy, and idealism of young people, particularly at research universities, to address the "grand challenges" of the 21st century.

Link to Big Ideas @ Berkeley Marketplace, Link to press release