Lilian Kabelle, a civil and environmental engineering student, is one of seven students from Sub-Saharan Africa attending UC Berkeley at no cost as part of a $500 million MasterCard Foundation education initiative. Six U.S. universities, including UC Berkeley, were named as partners in The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program's global network of educational institutions and non-profits.
UC Berkeley will receive $30 million in funding over the next eight years as part of the program. The initiative will provide some 15,000 talented, yet financially disadvantaged students who have a "give-back" ethos and live in developing countries with full scholarships and comprehensive support for their high school and college educations. Sub-Saharan Africa is the primary focus of the Scholars Program.
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/26/mastercard-foundation-brings-sub-saharan-african-students-to-uc-berkeleyer/
(Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations)
http://facebook.com/ucberkeley
Jeff Rothschild, is currently with Accel Partners and was Facebook's first VP of Engineering. Jeff discusses his experiences successfully (and unsuccessfully) starting new ventures and learning from corporate positions. He co-founded Veritas Software, which was later acquired by Symantic for $13.5 Billion. He went on to be Facebookâs first VP of Engineering in 2004, and still works with them in an advisory role.