White Paper Competition 2009

Graduate Students/Postdocs
1st Place: Magneto-optic technology hits the field: A pilot program to implement a new malaria diagnostic device in Southern Benin by Natasha Vidangos and Terry Yen
2nd Place: Policy Proposals to Reduce Overharvest from Marine Fisheries by Evelyn Chang
3rd Place: KnowPrivacy by Joshua Gomez, Ashkan Soltani, and Travis Pinnick
Berkeley Award: Coal Power and Reversing Climate Change: Can They Work Together? by Anna Sommers

UC Berkeley Undergraduates
1st Place: Medical Smart Card System for Patient Record Management by Changui Xiao and Arthur Yu
2nd Place: Neurological priming of ASD patients in human-robot interaction studies reveal need for novel approach in technology regulation by Julia Piper

Travel Grants
Julia Piper will travel to Columbia University to develop an interdisciplinary approach to the initiation of a Policy Dialogue adressing the problems brought up by the investitigation of ASD or related syndromes.
Natasha Vidangos and Terry Yen will travel to Washington, D.C., to meet with Dr. Olusoji Adeyi of the World Bank to promote MOT and to discuss the possiblity of integrating their pilot program into an existing antimalarial campaign.
Anna Sommer will travel to Washington, D.C., to meet with congressional staff of Rep. Henry Waxman, Rep. Edward Markey and Sen. John Kerry to address the contribution to climate change from coal.

Judges:
Michael Eisen (Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley)
Jane Mauldon (Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley)
Tony Kingsbury (Center for Responsible Business, Haas Business School, UC Berkeley)
Brandon Conrad (BlueMap, Inc.)

Writing Advisors:
Stephen Maurer (Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley)
David Winickoff (Bioethics and Society, UC Berkeley)
Rebecca Slayton (Program in Science, Technology and Society, Stanford)

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:
The Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley
Big Ideas @ Berkeley
Synthentic Biology Engineering Research Center, UC Berkeley
Invitrogen
Gilead Sciences, Inc
The Elsevier Foundation
The Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program