= Regional and Economical Development Efforts =
=== Blum Center - Global California: The World at Home<br/> ===
<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c476-1868-88eb-861b95649127">[http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/new-blum-center-uc-merced-focus-valley-prosperity <span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/new-blum-center-uc-merced-focus-valley-prosperity</span>]</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-0b27bb3c-c476-1868-88eb-861b95649127"><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Blum Center at UC Merced is an extension of the original Blum Center from Berkeley, only recently founded from a seed grant. There are also centers at UC Davis, and UCLA. The Blum Center will have a specific focus on the Central Valley’s future prosperity. By utilizing interdisciplinary expertise from students with all different backgrounds, the Blum Center will be able to exercise a wide variety of projects in both Engineering Service Learning and Capstone projects. The Blum Center provides a unique perspective because of its location and high concentration of first generation college students.</span></span>
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