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...work.” A goal of the events is to show students how they can participate in human rights work, according to Cynthia J. Mesh, assistant director of UCHRS. The capstone event will be tomorrow’s ‘Sixty Years of Human Rights: The Idea and the Reality’ panel featuring University Professor Amartya Sen and Medical School Professor Paul Farmer, which is moderated by University President Drew G. Faust. “As Harvard students, we’re in a privileged position to act on behalf of human rights,” said...
...This out-of-the-box idea is one of four projects that received $100,000 through the Grand Challenges Exploration Initiative, a project backed by the Gates Foundation...
...initiative, which bestowed grants on 104 researchers from 22 countries, was developed to lower the barriers to funding for anyone with a transformative idea in global health. Projects that show promise in the first year will be eligible for a second phase of funding of possibly $1 million or more...
...Unlike most lengthy grant applications, applicants submitted just a two-page proposal and needed no preliminary data—the focus was on the idea, not on the results, according to Andrew C. Serazin, an official at the Gates Foundation...
...Gates foundation, Chait is developing a way to test this idea...