WARMILU WORKING WITH KETTERING PHYSICS FACULTY
(MARCH 30, 2015) ANN ARBOR, MI - Two recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grants received by Kettering University are propelling collaborative and industry research that is attempting to help reduce infant mortality rates in third-world countries.
Dr. Uma Ramabadran and Dr. Gillian Ryan in the Department of Physics are partnering with Warmilu, an Ann Arbor startup that is attempting to provide incubated blankets to villages in India that lack electricity. India has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world which is partly due to the lack of electricity in rural villages.
“This is a collaborative project,” Ramabadran said. “These blankets are for babies in third-world countries where there’s no electric incubator available.”
The collaboration arose after Ramabadran’s daughter, Shalini, a student at Huron High school in Ann Arbor, attended a lecture by Grace Hsia, co-founder and CEO of Warmilu. Inspired by the concept, Shalini conducted a science fair project with Hsia which then led to a collaboration with Ramabadran and the Physics Department at Kettering.
