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Outreach Nepal has been awarded the ECI Marketing Innovation Award for their “Basic Humanity” campaign, which was initiated at the beginning of March this year, amidst the global pandemic, when the entire world was locked inside houses with limited resources.
The ECI festival was held in Shanghai from 16th to 18th December and was founded by IECIA (International Entrepreneurs, Creatives & Innovators Association). ECI presents the global award in the arena of digital economy, which measures “effectiveness of Innovation” as the evaluation criteria. It recognizes the most innovative achievements in the categories of business model, product, service, technology, marketing, and management to encourage and inspire innovations applied in commercial and creative industries around the world.
Rhodes Scholar blends bioengineering and sociology
Nkaziewoh Nchinda-Pungong wants to make trailblazing treatments accessible for the underserved
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When Nkaziewoh Nchinda-Pungong was in middle school, he watched a TED talk during which a surgeon 3D-printed a kidney on stage. Spellbound, he decided then and there to become a bioengineer.
A decade later, Nchinda-Pungong is well on his way. A biomedical engineering concentrator at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a 2021 Rhodes Scholar, he is poised to graduate in the spring and fulfill that long-held ambition.
“Biology and chemistry are interesting in themselves, and it is fascinating to learn how the human body works. But with bioengineering, you are actually able to change it,” he said. “You may hear about heart disease and think about it as an abstract problem. Bioengineering turns that into something very specific, like an engineered heart valve, that c