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Article Evaluation I read the article on abortion where they explained everything how is abortion carried out and what are the symptoms. They also explained why do people have to deal with abortion. I found this article relevant to the topic and they mostly covered all information. The only thing I found hard about this article was the way it was divided into different sections but didn't made sense according to the sub topic. There are also some words which through me out because I didn't had any idea what they mean. But overall article was well researched and all the citations work perfectly. As I was reading the talk page the one thing I found very interesting was about including "expert medical or legal advice about abortions?". I see why someone wants this to be included because now a days people think abortion is very easy to deal with but they don't know actual symptoms and how its gonna harm there body in future. By reading this article on wikipedia it makes more sense than listening stories from people about Abortion.

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Rebecca Richards-Kortum

She is an American bioengineer and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rica university. She is a professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. She gives education to people at a very low cost with high performance. My main concern regarding her is to highlight all her achievements and spread knowledge about important topics which she mastered for.

Sources:
 * Hoh, Yin Kiong. "Using Biographies of Outstanding Women in Bioengineering to Dispel Biology Teachers' Misperceptions of Engineers." The American Biology Teacher 71, no. 8 (2009): 459. doi:10.2307/20565358.


 * "FIRST LOOK." ASEE Prism 26, no. 3 (2016): 14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/90005978.


 * "SCIENCE BRIEFS." The Science Teacher 59, no. 6 (1992): 12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24146684.


 * Richards-Kortum, Rebecca: Department of Bioengineering. George R. Brown School of Engineering. Rica University, 2010. http://bioengineering.rice.edu/faculty/rebecca_richards-kortum.aspx

Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Rebecca Richards-Kortum was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. An American bioengineer and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University. She is a professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and she is the Director of Rice 360°: Institute for Global Health, and the Founder of Beyond Traditional Borders, a program which challenges undergraduate students to create affordable technologies for use primarily in Third World countries.

Family
Rebecca's husband Philip, also works at Rice in the faculty of Psychology. She meet Philip, at the age of 17 in Nebraska during there freshman year. She have six kids from aged twenty-two down to aged four. She have three boys and three girls. Alex and Max are both at college, one at Rice and one at the University of Houston. They're both studying engineering. Then Zach is in high school and he wants to do either architecture or civil engineering. Kate is in middle school, Elizabeth is in second grade and finally, Margaret is in pre-school. They adopted Elizabeth and Margaret from Ethiopia in 2012.

Education
Rebecca Richards-Kortum grew up in Nebraska and went to the University of Nebraska. She received a B.S. (1985) from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and an M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin prior to joining the faculty of Rice University in 2005. In addition to joint appointments as the Malcolm Gillis University Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, she is the founder (2007) and director of the Rice 360˚ Institute of Global Health and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor (since 2002). She is the author of the textbook Biomedical Engineering for Global Health (2010) and articles in such scientific publications as Science, PLoS, and the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Her research has led to the development of over thirty patents.

Career
Rebecca Richards-Kortum works on creating technologies for low-resource settings, primarily with a focus on pediatrics, improving child health and improving maternal health. She also have other projects which focus on early cancer screening and diagnosis focusing mainly on cervical cancer, head and neck cancer and esophageal cancer. She is known for providing vulnerable populations in the developing world access to life-saving health technology, focusing on diseases and conditions that cause high morbidity and mortality, such as cervical and oral cancer, premature birth, and malaria.

She originally studied medical physics and then switched to engineering when she got her first faculty job. Biomedical engineering does tend to have more women than, say, mechanical or electrical engineer. As per Global Health it’s closer to 90% women in field of bioengineering.

Richards-Kortum’s group developed the first reflectance fiber optic microscopy system used to image epithelial tissue in vivo. She is also specialized in creating new technologies to provide health care to vulnerable populations, including methods for diagnosis of cancers, methods for treating jaundice in newborns, and a bubble continuous positive airway pressure machine for premature infants unable to breathe on their own.

Rebecca's Work
Richards-Kortum spends significant time working directly with hospitals, community groups, and rural practitioners in Malawi, Rwanda, El Salvador, Brazil, and elsewhere to ensure her inventions are robust and reliable in local settings. These visits also enable her to identify needs, evaluate the impact of proposed solutions, and gather feedback for improvements. In addition to her own research, Richards-Kortum co-founded Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB), an undergraduate curriculum focused on translating classroom concepts into solutions for global health problems. The curriculum includes coursework in engineering, sociology, psychology, and economics, while a capstone project challenges students to work in multidisciplinary teams to build a technology that responds to a global health need.

Achievements and Awards

 * In May 2017, Richards-Kortum was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
 * Fortune magazine named her to its prestigious list of World's 50 Greatest Leaders.
 * The first Houston woman and the first Rice faculty member to win a coveted "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation.
 * The Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1999)
 * The Presidential Young Investigator (1991)
 * Presidential Faculty Fellow (1992) awards from the National Science Foundation