After a service trip to Uganda in 2009, Ce Zhang, a biology major in his senior year in Penn State's Schreyer Honors College, returned to Penn State determined to raise awareness of how poor hand hygiene in Uganda spreads bacterial diseases. Convinced that a simple, low-cost hand washing device could help, he started a student organization aimed at raising funds to install these devices. For their efforts, Zhang and his research partner, fellow Penn State undergraduate Adam Mosa, won a first place award in the Penn State Undergraduate Research Exhibition.

Dr. Steven Schiff, director of Penn State's Center for Neural Engineering, discusses his project to improve the quality of medical care in East Africa.

Hydrocephalus in Ugandan children and other developing countries is seasonal, linked to farm animals and, in part, caused by previous bacterial infection, according to an international team of researchers from Uganda and the United States. The team believes prevention is the best approach to the problem.