Ready for Global Health Fellow #2?! Matthew Pesce is just another face behind Rice 360°‘s success. He, too, has been in Malawi for the last several months working on our BreathAlert device alongside Fellow Becky Selle ’15. BreathAlert is an apnea monitor and stimulation device with a size-adjustable strap. If a baby doesn’t breathe […]

  Our team was recently featured on the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change blog. We were asked to write about how our team and proposal idea came together. A prominent member of Team NEST360°, Maria Oden, wrote a beautiful piece. My hardest months were spent watching my newborn daughter cling to life. Had she been born in […]

  Good afternoon and happy Tuesday! We’ve been trying to feature this guest blogger for a quite awhile, but she’s been in Malawi since February! For the last three months, she’s been in Blantyre running clinical trials on Rice 360°’s AutoSyp device, a syringe pump designed to automatically deliver medicinal doses for up to 66 hours […]

  Matt, our Design Studio Manager at Malawi Polytechnic, is back as a guest blogger! Check out his latest musings: A few of my students are competing in the FIRST Global Robotics competition, an international competition in which teams design a robot to solve a problem. This year’s challenge is around water access and sanitation. FIRST […]

BY MALAZ MOHAMAD ’16 It was a very chaotic situation: a young child had come in with bronchiolitis. She was breathing very rapidly and with every wheezing breath, I felt my own throat tighten. The nurses and doctors rushed about but seemed unfazed by the girl’s apparent distress; they saw children like her on the […]