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Bacteria fighting fabric

By Guest PostApril 17, 2014Scienceantagonism, anthropology professor, bill, bruno bauer, christian gumpenberger, diarrhea, emigration, gates foundation, India, kein sex, melinda, new challenges, pathogens, ruth behar, south korea, steve dentel

Gates Foundation funds civil engineering professor’s novel wastewater treatment fabric

Each year in India, waterborne diseases sicken approximately 37.7 million people. One and a half million children die of diarrhea alone, according to a report by WaterAid.

In the developing world, open pit latrines are common, but they pose a significant risk to public health and the environment. Open pit latrines can be as sophisticated as an outhouse or as simple as a trench in the ground. (more…)

A new look at how to evaluate teachers

By Guest PostAugust 19, 2013Educationbill, brian rowan, develop, effective teaching project, evaluate teachers, excellent teachers, gates foundation, how, icpsr, lesli scott, melinda gates foundation, met longitudinal database, met project, teacher education, university of michigan, virtual data enclave

ANN ARBOR — One of the most extensive collections of videos showing teachers at work in the classroom will be available this fall at the University of Michigan to help researchers learn more about how to evaluate good teaching and how to develop excellent teachers.

The videos of 3,000 teacher volunteers from around the country are a crucial piece of the Measures of Effective Teaching project, a multi-year study that set out to determine how to identify and advance strong teaching. MET is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (more…)

Electrically Spun Fabric Offers Dual Defense Against Pregnancy, HIV

By Guest PostDecember 5, 2012Healthafrica, against, antibodies, antivirals, bill, cameron ball, condom, contraception, drugs, electrospinning, emily krogstad, fibers, fluid jet, gates foundation, gels, geometry, gooey solution, heat sensitive molecules, hiv, hiv expert, hiv infection, kim woodrow, melinda, nanometer scale, pills, pregnancy, protect, sexually transmitted disease, sexually transmitted infection, sperm, tablets, Technology, thanyanan chaowanachan, treat hiv, university, vaccine, Washington

The only way to protect against HIV and unintended pregnancy today is the condom. It’s an effective technology, but not appropriate or popular in all situations.

A University of Washington team has developed a versatile platform to simultaneously offer contraception and prevent HIV. Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers can dissolve to release drugs, providing a platform for cheap, discrete and reversible protection. (more…)

Q&A: Seeking “Real World” Solutions to Global Poverty

By Guest PostMarch 23, 2011Economybehavioral economics, brick and mortar, combat poverty, dean karlan, development economists, gates foundation, ghana, global poverty, innovations for poverty action, ipa, jacob appel, jordan goldberg, malawi, Mali, microcredit, microfinance, mobile money, uganda, wealthy nations, yale economist

In discussions of how best to solve global poverty, helping the 3 billion people living on less than $2.50 per day, development economists tend to fall into one of two camps.

One camp claims that wealthy nations contribute too few dollars to combat poverty. The other camp counters that money doesn’t guarantee poverty alleviation, and points to the $2.3 trillion spent in foreign aid over the past 50 years as evidence that throwing money at the problem won’t solve it. Despite their differences, both groups agree that some types of development interventions work better than others. (more…)

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Bacteria fighting fabric

A new look at how to evaluate teachers

Electrically Spun Fabric Offers Dual Defense Against Pregnancy, HIV

Q&A: Seeking “Real World” Solutions to Global Poverty