2025 Global Incubator Seed Grants awarded

2025 Global Incubator Seed Grants awarded

A total of 20 projects won Global Incubator Seed Grants this month, allowing them to kickstart new research examining a whole host of issues, from the cyber defense of medical devices to the impacts of affordable housing on physical activity and health in Brazil.

Food futures forum tackles problem of transforming global food systems

Food futures forum tackles problem of transforming global food systems

The global food systems that keep more than 8 billion people fed come at a huge cost to public health and the environment in terms of climate change, wasteful and unsustainable production practices, and diseases of overnutrition, undernutrition and malnutrition. These costs will only rise as the global population continues to grow. To ensure that nourishing food is accessible and available to all while staying within planetary limits, the world must transform how food is produced, distributed and consumed.

Public Health People: A conversation with Professor Rodrigo Reis

Public Health People: A conversation with Professor Rodrigo Reis

Rodrigo Siqueira Reis was running in a park in Curitiba, Brazil, on a weekend morning when he realized he had spent years approaching health backward. Around him, people were playing pickup soccer, jogging, and walking. They were simply living in a space that made movement natural, joyful, and free.

A Journey Among Living Machines and Their Makers

A Journey Among Living Machines and Their Makers

Switzerland’s multilingualism was an inescapable reminder that transcultural research is as much about studying trade objects as it is about linguistic and cultural understanding. For me, this trip was less about digesting large volumes of historical material and more about mapping the terrain—finding out what is where, and what I need to prepare before beginning my dissertation work in earnest.

‘Pirates’ of the Caribbean: The luck and pluck of three-legged lizards

‘Pirates’ of the Caribbean: The luck and pluck of three-legged lizards

More than 20 years ago, Jonathan Losos was in the Bahamas pursuing one of his favorite pastimes — catching and measuring anole lizards — when he spotted a familiar reptilian flash on a branch. A chance encounter by him inspired a team of biologists to study lizards with missing or reduced limbs.

Implementing science across borders

Implementing science across borders

For the first time, the Prevention Research Center (PRC) at Washington University in St. Louis has taken its signature Evidence-Based Public Health training program (EBPH) to a U.S. territory. This summer, the EBPH faculty delivered the course over three and half days in Caguas, Puerto Rico. 

WashU team wins $3.9M to provide cameras for gamma-ray observatory

WashU team wins $3.9M to provide cameras for gamma-ray observatory

A team of WashU researchers and engineers has won a $3.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and install gamma-ray cameras for the Small-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), the smallest of the three classes of telescopes the observatory will deploy. The telescopes are planned for the observatory’s Southern Hemisphere site in Paranal, Chile.

Reimagining the Nile: The human, political and environmental legacy of Egypt’s Aswan High Dam

Reimagining the Nile: The human, political and environmental legacy of Egypt’s Aswan High Dam

In the hot southern Egypt sun, a monument to modern ambition bisects the Nile — a massive rockfill dam once hailed as a triumph of engineering, anticolonial defiance and national pride. But beneath the surface of this vast construction lies a deeper, more complex story — one of displacement, Cold War deal-making, pan-Arab solidarity and shifting landscapes both physical and political.

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