Past Travel Grant Recipients
Sophia Wu
- Master’s Student
- Technology and Policy Program
Sophia Wu is a master’s student in the Technology and Policy Program at MIT. Trained as a mechanical engineer, she is now pursuing an interdisciplinary degree program in order to focus on advancing safe drinking water access for all, especially for some of the most vulnerable populations on the planet. In pursuit of this goal, she joined the research team led by Susan Murcott of MIT D-Lab and Jeffrey Ravel of the History Program that has been developing a low-cost E. coli test kit for drinking water in Nepal with funding from J-WAFS. She has also been working under civil and environmental engineering professor Andrew Whittle, who is another J-WAFS PI. This project seeks to understand the effects of intermittent water supply on drinking water quality.