UCL students win prestigious global change competition

Three UCL students have won the prestigious global Schmidt Futures competition for their innovative solutions to tackling the world's most pressing challenges, including those posed by COVID-19. Glenda Xu (UCL Medical School), Yvette Homerlein (UCL Arts & Humanities) and Lia Bote (UCL Division of Biosciences), are among 20 winners selected by the philanthropic initiative as part of its Reimagine Challenge 2020 competition. Their projects focus on providing healthcare support for people in lowand middle-income countries during the pandemic, developing a platform to tackle misinformation in online media and creating resources to support foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. Reimagine Challenge sources the best proposals from college and university students around the world to help build a better future. Each winner receives up to $25,000 (more than £18,000) in tuition scholarships, with additional prizes donated to UCL per winning entry. Their ideas were chosen from hundreds of submissions worldwide, across 40 different countries and 86 nationalities. Yvette, from Australia, is a first-year undergraduate studying Arts and Sciences.