The Shah Family Global Innovation Lab has named its 2020 grant recipients. The awards are made possible through contributions from the Shah Family Endowment, College of Engineering, College of Agriculture, and external partners.

"I gained confidence in my ability to deal with any crisis thrown at me as I am able to adapt and react quickly." - Tim Jansen

"Sometimes you just have to figure out how to make the best situation out of the current moment." - Lindsay Rubin

"Isolation has given me an opportunity to focus on the little things in life. I started improved my nutrition, fitness, sleep, and overall lifestyle by forming small habits over my time in isolation." - Kevin Boes

Our very own Jill Churchill was selected by the Global Academic Committee for the Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award for Staff in 2020!

A senior graduating in mechanical engineering received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program offer for the 2020-21 academic year and will study in Germany.

Emily Endicott leads a rocket project at Purdue
University to guide a team of aspiring engineers
toward a major competition and a soaring vision
with earthly benefits.

PAGE is expanding this year to included individual students from global institutions, in addition to receiving undergraduate groups from universities.

We asked Margaret Hegwood to describe her life in
Kenya on a Boren Fellowship for national security
and strategic language studies.

Elsa is a middle-aged woman with four children and grandchildren living in her little plot in Mosoriot, Nandi County. She has raised her children in her humble mud house and cooked in her smoky little kitchen, a temporary structure leaning on the side of her house, for many years. Elsa did not know that her smoky kitchen could be the reason she had been hospitalized twice for a chest condition in the last two years.