Environment & Climate Change

I-CARES

Education

Amanda Moore McBride

Public Health

Cookstoves research

Peace & Human Rights

Leila Sadat

Public Health

Mark Manary

Public Health

Katie Plax

Public Health

Theodore J. Cicero

Poverty Alleviation

Mark R. Rank

Environment & Climate Change

Pratim Biswas

China National Quitline

The project's long-term goal is to decrease China’s national smoking prevalence by 1 percent annually. The operation would be located in a hospital in Beijing, and the quitline would be staffed by a team of including psychologists, telephone counseling experts, researchers and information specialists. To avoid censorship from the Chinese government, the program would seek funding from nonprofit organizations.

Teaching Philanthropy – Empowering Youth Through Volunteerism

This project aims to bring a service-learning curriculum to three St. Louis-area schools and encourage underprivileged children to take a more active role in serving the community.

My Name is Strong: A community anti-violence initiative and awareness campaign

This project seeks to turn a single room in St. Louis into an overpowering art exhibit of human strength and courage. Beginning with a social media campaign, the project is asking for stories, artwork, photographs, and other creative expressions by all individuals impacted by gender-based violence – not just the survivors themselves.

Creating a Brighter Future for the Children of St. Louis

This group seeks to create a partnership with the St. Louis Charter School to increase the school’s volunteer base by 20 percent, specifically in the field of male student mentorship, and to increase educational resources, including textbooks and other school supplies, by 10 percent over the next three years.

Breaking Behaviors

This plan seeks to educate Costa Ricans about problematic behaviors handed from generation to generation, among them drinking coconut milk to prevent pregnancy and feeding babies bottles containing coffee and sugar.

Team LumaCure

Team LumaCure has identified one of the most significant factors that contribute towards neonatal deaths — hyperbilirubinemia, or jaundice. The team’s goal is to make a low cost and portable phototherapeutic treatment device that will help treat neonatal jaundice using Electroluminescence instead of the existing LED / halogen lamp phototherapy solutions. The team has been researching and thinking about this problem, and feels it has come up with a better, cheaper solution that is not currently available.

Making Vegetables Fun: The St. Louis City Healthy Eating Initiative

"Making Vegetables Fun: The St. Louis City Healthy Eating Initiative," addresses childhood obesity in St. Louis. School children will learn about and practice healthy eating in the classroom, and the program will teach an appreciation for healthy eating, as well as provide assistance to low-income families with ideas for healthy foods the children enjoy.

Interactive Living Landscape

In cities throughout the world, years of contamination have rendered large swaths of land unfit for habitation, development or food production. Interactive Living Landscape aims to demonstrate that vacant urban lots can be productively landscaped in ways that not only heal the soil, but also help improve the health of the wider community.