Africa Initiative awards new round of pilot grants
A team including Krista Milich (center) assistant professor of biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences, recently won funding from the Africa Initiative for a new research project in Uganda. It was one of eight teams awarded funds. (Photo courtesy of Krista Milich)
February 26, 2021
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While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to curtail nonessential travel, it hasn’t tamped down interest in interdisciplinary partnerships involving Washington University in St. Louis faculty and their colleagues across the globe.
Case in point: the university’s Africa Initiative recently received more than two-dozen proposals from faculty as part of its call for proposals to fund research projects on the continent. The applicant pool was so robust, the Institute for Public Health and the McDonnell International Scholars Academy boosted the number of awards available from three to eight.