December - 2017

NEST 360° at the 100 & Change Finals

The NEST360° team is committed to scaling NEST across Africa to save 500,000 newborn lives every year. There has never been a better time...

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NEST360º’s low-cost jaundice detector passes first test in Africa

The first clinical study of a low-cost, hand-held jaundice detector invented by Rice University students couldn’t have come at a better...

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Team “At Your Cervix” Wins at National Institutes of Health DEBUT Competition

In August, Rice 360°’s design team “At Your Cervix” earned the prestigious prize for Healthcare Technologies in Low-Resource Settings, in...

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Holistic Care Key to Newborn Care in Malawi Study

In 2016, the laudable progress made in reducing child mortality in Malawi by 73% between 1992 and 2016 motivated researchers from the...

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Georgia Tech Team Wins Rice 360° Design Competition

Student teams from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Rice and the University of Michigan won top prizes at the 10th annual Rice 360⁰...

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NEST360° is finalist for $100 million MacArthur grant

NEST360°, a visionary 10-year effort to save the lives of 500,000 African babies per year, is a finalist for the MacArthur Foundation’s...

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