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Erika Kurt ’98 Leads Small World Initiative

Erika Kurt ’98 is the President and CEO of the Small World Initiative (www.smallworldinitiative.org), which is an innovative program formulated at Yale University that allows students from around the world to take part in the discovery of the next generation of antibiotics. (SWI) is an innovative program that encourages students to pursue careers in science while addressing a worldwide health threat – the diminishing supply of effective antibiotics. It centers around an introductory biology course in which students conduct original hands-on field and laboratory research in the hunt for new antibiotics. Read the complete story here.
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