HHMI renews grant for Rice's global health program

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases  Wed, 05/19/2010 - 22:00

(Rice University) The Howard Hughes Medical Institute today awarded a $1.2 million, four-year grant to continue Rice University's successful undergraduate global health program Beyond Traditional Borders.

In the first four years of the program, more than 10 percent of Rice's undergraduates have taken a BTB class.

BTB challenges students to devise practical solutions to real-world problems in the developing world.

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