Alumni News Brief

Ku featured in National Geographic

Kathy Ku, S.M. ’14 (engineering sciences), was featured in a National Geographic article about her work at SPOUTS of Water, the social enterprise she co-founded in Uganda. Click here to read the SEAS Alumni Profile story on Ku.

Ku, who earned a bachelor’s degree in molecular and cellular biology at Harvard before pursuing her master’s degree, discussed the challenges she and co-founder John Kye faced after they launched the startup in 2011. Today, SPOUTS of Water produces about 2,000 low-cost, clay water filters each month, which help impoverished Ugandan families access clean drinking water.

Read more in National Geographic.

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