International Education Week: Reinventing the Toilet — Solving a Global Equity Challenge

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday November 21, 2019
      5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
  • Location: Room 1443, Klaus Advanced Computing Building
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Contact

Kelci Reyes-Brannon

kelci.reyes-brannon@oie.gatech.edu

Summaries

Summary Sentence: Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Yee on the Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Full Summary: Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Yee on the Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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  • Research team reinventing the toilet Research team reinventing the toilet
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Dr. Yee leads the Generation 2 Reinvented Toilet (G2RT) program, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where a global team of scientists and engineers are taking a second look at reinventing the toilet to solve a global equity challenge. This project is tied to improved access to sanitation with the goal of realizing a low-cost "Single-User Reinvented Toilet" solution. Come and learn how this large global team is approaching the problem through international collaboration bringing expert engineering to bear on a pressing global problem.

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Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

General, Office of International Education

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Postdoc, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
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Status
  • Created By: Kristen Bailey
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Nov 15, 2019 - 12:56pm
  • Last Updated: Nov 15, 2019 - 12:56pm