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Where We’ve Been: Conferences MAY JUN SEPT OCT NOV DEC Humanitarian Technology 2015 (Boston, MA) Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA) (Berkeley, CA) World Economic Forum Meeting of New Champions (Dalian, China) IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference [Seattle, Washington] 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (Paris, France) Symposium on Computing for Development (London, UK) 12 8 11 8 30 1 News: Highlights from the Press - This Startup Gives Poor People A Year’s Income, No Strings Attached (Huffington Post, June 4, 2015) New Field of Development Engineering Sparks Co-Mentorship program (Elsevier, June 9, 2015) Improving Lives with Physics (APS Physics, July 1, 2015) Despite $7 billion to ‘Power Africa,’ why the continent is still in the dark (Reuters, July 30, 2015) The Problem With Help in Global Development (SSIR, September 3, 2015) A new kind of development professional: The Development Engineer (DevEx, September 23, 2015) Facebook Hires Founders Of Cellular-Network-In-A-Box Company Endaga (TechCruch, October 5, 2015) Tech Infrastructure In the Developing World (TechCruch, November 14, 2015) Mobile Phone Data Predicts Poverty in Rwanda (IEEE Spectrum, November 30, 2015) Academic Publications: Disseminating Research -- “Safe Drinking Water for Low-Income Regions” by Susan Amrose, Zachary Burt, and Isha Ray, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, November 2015. -- “Devcafe 1.0: A Participatory Platform For Assessing Development Initiatives In The Field” by Brandie Nonnecke, Sanjay Krishnan, Jay Patel, Mo Zhou, Laura Byaruhanga, Dorothy Masinde, Maria Elena Meneses, Alejandro Martin del Campo, Camille Crittenden, Ken Goldberg, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, October 2015. -- Escherichia coli Attenuation by Fe Electrocoagulation in Synthetic Bengal Groundwater: Effect of pH and Natural Organic Matter’ by Caroline Delaire, Case M. van Genuchten, Kara L. Nelson, Susan E. Amrose, and Ashok J. Gadgil, Environmental Science & Technology, July 2015. -- “Evaluating The Cement Stabilization Of Arsenic-bearing Iron Wastes From Drinking Water Treatment” by Tara M. Clancy, Kathryn V. Snyder, Raghav Reddy, Antonio Lanzirotti, Susan E. Amrose, Lutgarde Raskin, Kim F. Hayes, Journal of Hazardous Materials, July 2015. -- “Point-of-care quantification of blood-borne filarial parasites with a mobile phone microscope” by Michael V. D’Ambrosio, Matthew Bakalaw, Sasisekhar Bennuru, Clay Reber, Arunan Skandarajah, Lina Nilsson, Neil Switz, Joseph Kamgno, Sebastien Pion, Michel Boussinesq, Thomas B. Nutman, Daniel A. Fletcher, Science Translational Medicine, May 2015. -- “A Scalable DC Microgrid Architecture for Rural Electrification in Emerging Regions” by Eric Brewer, P. Achintya Madduri, Matthew Podolsky, Jason Poon, Javier Rosa, S. R. Sanders, Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), March 2015. PAGE 18 JU 8