Jennifer McConville: Water Systems in Africa

Jennifer McConville

With her graduation from Michigan Tech in 2004, Jennifer McConville turned her attention from frozen water to the liquid variety.

Michigan Tech's academic all-American cross-country skier has become a water sanitation extension agent in Mali. "I plan on looking at potential correlations between waterborne disease and watershed characteristics such as rainfall and land use," she said. "I have done extensive background research and formulated how I might approach a case study while I am overseas."

Jennifer holds a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to support her master's research. She is also part of the Peace Corps Master's International Program through Michigan Tech's civil and environmental engineering department.

Through the Michigan Tech/Peace Corps program, she will spend two semesters on campus and two years in the Peace Corps.

With her work preventing waterborne disease, Jennifer is helping extend the future for many people in Mali. You can find ways to create the future at Michigan Tech, too.




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