BTB in the News - Archive
Clinton chips in for Lab-in-a-Backpack: Foundation helps Rice bring medical testing gear to remote locations
10/03/2008 Bill Clinton believes in Rice's Vision for the Second Century. And his foundation is willing to back it up with cash.
The former president's organization, the Clinton Global Initiative-University project (CGI-U), has sent a grant of $5,000 to support the Diagnostic Lab-in-a-Backpack development, which gets medical equipment to remote parts of the world where it's sorely needed. [full story]
Baker Institute Energy Forum sends volunteers to work on sustainable development in Lesotho
7/17/2008 A group of Rice students and scholars is in the southern African nation of Lesotho this summer developing cost-effective integrated approaches to sustainable development and energy.
The project aims to assess the needs of the communities around the capital, Maseru, to identify local resources, match the needs to climate-change adaptation impacts and recommend integrated ways to meet community needs in the most cost-effective manner. [full story]
Rice Students Combat Disease
7/14/2008 Seventeen Rice University students are in Africa, Central America and the Caribbean this summer, combating disease.
The students are part of the Rice Beyond Traditional Borders' International Internship Program. Now in its second year, the program is a summer internship that allows students to work in schools, health clinics, hospitals and town councils to use education and technology to address local health problems.[full story]
Rice students make commitment to Clinton Global Initiative
03/21/2008 Some Rice students' efforts to improve medical care in parts of Africa took center stage -- literally -- at last weekend's meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) in New Orleans.
"I think we should all be very grateful to these fine people from Rice for what they're doing," former President Bill Clinton told an audience of nearly 700 students representing 40 states and 15 other countries. He was referring to Rice undergraduate students Jeanie Ling and Jenna Hook, Bioengineering Department Chair Rebecca Richards-Kortum and President David Leebron, who all joined Clinton onstage as he announced the Rice commitment to advance global health technologies in education. [full story]
"Rice President David Leebron, professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum, and undergraduate students Jenna Hook and Jeanie Ling join former President Bill Clinton on stage at the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative University plenary session's closing."
[plenary closing full webcast]
Leebron's expertise sought for two global initiatives
03/14/2008 At the invitation of former President Bill Clinton, President David Leebron will serve as a panelist at the inaugural meeting of Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) this weekend in New Orleans. It's the first of two invitations for Leebron to participate this spring in programs geared toward global outreach. [full story]
US Institute to develop health tech for Poor Nations
10/08/2007 The US-based Rice University has announced it is investing US$100 million to create an institute to develop medical technology and educational programmes for poor countries. The project, named "Rice 360°: Technology Solutions for World Health", was unveiled last month (28 September) during the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, United States. [full story]
Rice unveils $100 million global health initiative
09/28/2007 Rice University today unveiled plans for a $100 million initiative to create an institute to develop technologies to combat pressing health problems in the developing world, such as HIV/AIDS and child mortality. The initiative was announced during the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. [full story]
"Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Neal Lane speak with President Clinton at the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007 where Rice University made a commitment to raise $100 million through the Rice 360° Initiative to create an institute that will develop, test, and disseminate new technologies and educational programs to help solve the world's most urgent health problems."
Rice 360 to aid developing nations
09/28/2007 Rice University has committed to raising $100 million over the coming decade to fund the development of technologies to combat pressing health problems in the developing world, such as HIV/AIDS and child mortality. [full story]
Rice undergrads work in Africa over summer
08/29/2007 Seven Rice University undergraduates spent their summer in Africa on the frontlines of the world's AIDS pandemic in an inaugural two-month internship sponsored by Rice's Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) Initiative. [full story]
Teacher from Malawi learns about global health at Rice
06/29/2007 A teacher trainer from the African country Malawi has spent the past month at Rice University learning about bioengineering and global health so she can educate high school teachers in her homeland about new treatments for and ways to prevent AIDS, cancer and heart disease. [fulll story]
Two Win HISD Teacher of the Year
05/11/2007 Mr. Hafedh Azaiez of Pin Oak Middle School - an inaugural 2006 Bioengineering and World Health Professional Development Workshop participant - named HISD's 2007 Secondary Teacher of the Year. [fulll story]
An Open Conversation on Global Health
03/15/2007 An open conversation on global health with Rebecca Richards-Kortum, who is leading the campus effort to address international health issues. [fulll interview]
Rice Wins $2.2M for Undergrad Global Health Program
06/01/2006 Rice University’s plans to offer undergraduate students with more real-world design challenges got a major boost June 1 when the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) awarded the university $2.2 million to develop a four-year biomedical training program that will challenge Rice’s students to solve health-care problems in the developing world. [fulll story][pdf]
Rice Students Reach Around the World
06/01/2006 At Rice University, undergraduates are expanding their horizons from Houston, Texas, to southern Africa and beyond. Beyond Traditional Borders, a program created with a new undergraduate science education grant from HHMI, is an innovative curriculum that will prepare students to address global health issues from a multidisciplinary perspective. [full story]
