BME377T:Projects/Topics
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| Name | Topic 1 | Topic 2 | Topic 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abhishek Kashyap | refugees and related problems | slavery and caste system problems | lack of clean water |
| Andrew Horton | human rights (Haiti, US's Cuban policy, military takeovers) | health (treatable diseases i.e. TB, AIDS, malaria) | environment (conservation) |
| Angela Hsiao | clean up and protect natural resources | education for street/underprivileged kids | food and health for the poor |
| Athra Kaviani | public health | child education | literacy |
| Bill Rodney | shelter | hunger | education |
| Clair Hollingsworth | rural public health | ||
| Cristina Garcia | pharmaceutical corporations ethics (medical research on the poor, production generic medicines) | preventable diseases i.e. AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria (research, education) | world hunger and poverty |
| Daphne Hao | pollution control | education and job opportunities for former criminals, drug users, etc. | homeless kids, orphans, neglected children |
| Deepa Raghunathan | water systems (purifying water supplies, providing drinking water) | improving education (specifically literacy) | mental health concerns of first generation immigrants in the U.S. |
| Isis Trenchard | cleaning water/improving sanitation | creating scientific infrastructure in developing countries (preventing "brain drain") | helping education systems in developing countries |
| Jennifer Ge | children's rights | education | China care: healthcare, education, care for orphans |
| Jessica Rodriguez | homeless children or children with parents that can't care for them effectively | second hand smoking | pollution and its effect on health |
| Jose Gutierrez | education | environment | |
| Kaitlin Goerner | AIDS in Africa | sex slave trade (children) in Thailand | starvation |
| Kishore Khan | ending global poverty | children workers/abuse prevention | helping kids get through college |
| Matt Hogan | poverty | social inequality | health education |
| Melizza Rodriguez | healthcare for the poor (medications for the poor) | ||
| Paul Rezvani | poverty | immigration | energy |
| Pouya Feizpour | poverty | child slavery | waste and recycling |
| Randi Voss | stop trafficking in people (sex trade using children - esp. thailand) | help women achieve financial autonomy through fair trade clothing company | art opportunities for everyone (maybe in austin) |
| Spoorthy Gudavalli | illiteracy among children in 3rd world countries | women empowerment | impoverished children |
| Stephanie Orci | promoting education in at risk areas | literacy for everyone (disabled, minorities) | microinvesting (esp. for women) |
| Sudhir Shenoy | unethical labor practices | poverty | education |
| Susannah Payne | education (increasing access to literature) | rural development | environmental education (global sustainability) |
