Kirsten Lalli ’11 and Caroline Komanecky ’12 are wading in the middle of a shallow, rocky stream on the outskirts of the remote village of Buhoma, Uganda.
Clad in jeans, pink T-shirts, and black knee-high Welly boots and rubber gloves, each tilts a blue-tinged 20-oz. bottle into the water and then holds it up to Professor Ellen Kraly, who’s crouching on the bank with a camera. Kraly snaps a close-up photograph of each bottle, and then the students fill small plastic vials with samples of the contents.
Using a hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) unit, Megan Snell ’12 calls out their location coordinates to Professor Peter Scull, who jots them down in a small, yellow notebook.
This water-sanitation survey project is just one aspect of a unique research and training partnership that has developed between ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ and Bwindi Community Hospital, generating opportunities both in the region and on campus.
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