Carenea: Redefining the Storage of Cornea Transplants
The standard for corneal storage requires preservation in solutions at 4 degrees Celsius for a maximum of 7-14 days. In developing countries, eye banks struggle with proper refrigeration and the high demand for corneas. They often resort to importing corneas, which are costly and have a shorter shelf life due to transport time. As a … Continue reading “Carenea: Redefining the Storage of Cornea Transplants”
- Team Members: Christina Kong, Shreya Condamoor
- Global Health
- UC Irvine
- 2019
Solving the Arsenic Problem in Rural California
About 55,000 people in California rely on arsenic contaminated groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. The small water systems serving these disadvantaged communities lack the technical, managerial, and financial capacity to implement a sustainable solution that would provide arsenic-safe drinking water. Thus, there is a need for an affordable, compact, and continuous-flow technology … Continue reading “Solving the Arsenic Problem in Rural California”
- Team Members: Dana Hernandez, Siva Rama Satyam Bandaru, Lucas Duffy, JP Daniel
- Global Health
- UC Berkeley
- 2019
ReEMS: Revolutionized Emergency Medical Services
The Red Cross of Tijuana is a nonprofit medical services provider that covers 98% of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) requests in Tijuana, Mexico. They pilot only 17 ambulances to serve a population exceeding 1.8 million people. As a result, these conditions escalate emergency vehicle response times and impair EMS performance during everyday operations. Partnered … Continue reading “ReEMS: Revolutionized Emergency Medical Services”
- Team Members: Leon Wu, Timothy Lam, A. Sterling Christensen, Ramin Atrian, Zhaoyi Li, Kaung Yang, Kousha Changizi, Andrew Sanchez
- Global Health
- UC San Diego
- 2019
Cloud-based Emergency Response System
Uganda does not have a dedicated emergency response number despite repeated government attempts to set up an adequate and reliable public ambulance service backed by a toll free phone number for communication. This has resulted in slow emergency response times, additional injury and an altogether diminished chance of survival. The Cloud-based Emergency Response System (CERS) … Continue reading “Cloud-based Emergency Response System”
- Team Members: Moses Kintu, Jordan Ongwech, Trevor Nagaba
- Global Health
- Makerere University
- 2019
Okaranchi
Okara is known as a soy pulp by-product generated when processing soy-based products. While okara still contains high nutrition values, most of it is dumped into landfills where it creates greenhouse gas emissions, causing environmental concerns. Okaranchi crackers aims to alleviate the global food waste issue by introducing consumers to a nutritious, sustainable and innovative … Continue reading “Okaranchi”
- Team Members: Vy Phung, Gary Adrian, Jeremy Chuardy, Chia-Yung Su, Siriyakorn Chantieng
- Food and Agriculture
- UC Davis
- 2019
Chap-Dryer
Unlike other poly-tunnel solar dryers in the market that use steel frames and metallic base plates, Chap-Dyer uses moisture resistant eucalyptus poles as frames and rough stone slates as a base. These materials are readily available in all parts of Uganda and very affordable, reducing the total cost of a dryer from $1,000 to $200 … Continue reading “Chap-Dryer”
- Team Members: Morris Atuhwera, George Komakeck
- Food and Agriculture
- Makerere University
- 2019
Intelligent Bugs Mapping and Wiping (iBMW): An affordable robot for farmers
This project idea is to develop an intelligent bugs mapping and wiping (iBMW) robot to perform pest population spatial distribution and “surgical precision spraying” for pest wipeout. The iBMW is an affordable (less than $1,000) robot-driven robot, which has a Turtlebot 3 as the robot’s brain and an unmanned ground vehicle serving as the work … Continue reading “Intelligent Bugs Mapping and Wiping (iBMW): An affordable robot for farmers”
- Team Members: Haoyu Niu, Tiebiao Zhao
- Food and Agriculture
- UC Merced
- 2019
DissolvBio
Billions of pounds of polyethylene are produced each year, and unfortunately this compound can take thousands of years to break down. Polyethylene has also been linked to human cancers, groundwater toxification, and environmental damage. A reliable means of breaking down polyethylene is necessary and would have a huge impact. Unfortunately, microbial degradation of polyethylene is … Continue reading “DissolvBio”
- Team Members: Ryan Kenneally, William Sharpless, Hannah Grossman, Jason Hou
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2019
The Berkeley-India Stove Project
Improving Women’s Lives with Improved Cookstoves in Rural India The ultimate goal of the Berkeley India Stove (BIS) Project is to deliver the BIS into the hands of the poorest 830 million people in India suffering from exposure to indoor air pollution due to their daily use of inefficient biomass cookstoves. An essential component of … Continue reading “The Berkeley-India Stove Project”
- Team Members: Samantha Hing, Matthew Mayes
- Climate, Energy & Sustainability
- UC Berkeley
- 2019