DukeEngage Uganda was relocated to Durham following an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in the country and neighboring Congo.
The program — set to start June 6 — had to shift course after the University’s Global Travel Advisory Committee officially restricted travel to Uganda on May 18. Students were given less than 48 hours to decide whether or not to continue with the program in Durham, with seven of nine electing to do so.
Megan Madonna, DukeEngage Uganda’s program leader and an assistant research professor in the department of biomedical engineering, worked to adjust the program to ensure that student participants could still collaborate with engineering students from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, like they had done in years past. The only difference is that the students in each country will now be thousands of miles apart…