News at Princeton

Friday, July 03, 2009
 Camels carrying medicine

Princeton engineers Edgar Choueiri and Winston (Wolé) Soboyejo are engaged in efforts to reinvigorate once-flourishing scientific cultures in their home countries of Lebanon and Nigeria, respectively. Among Soboyejo's projects is an initiative to develop a bamboo frame that can be strapped to a camel's hump so they can carry refrigerated vaccines to people in remote regions of Kenya and Ethiopia.


Photo: Courtesy of Winston Soboyejo

 

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Homeward bound: Princeton engineers promote science in their native countries

The stories that Edgar Choueiri and Winston Soboyejo tell of their native countries and of their own careers are strangely similar. These two Princeton engineering professors came from societies where science blossomed for a time and then atrophied. Both left their native countries to earn their scientific credentials. And now both men find themselves drawn home again to give something back to the societies where they were first inspired.

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