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Yuehwern Yih and Shan Xie authored one of the chapters in Women in Industrial and Systems Engineering – Key Advances and Perspectives on Emerging Topics.

An IE professor and grad student returned to Uganda for the third phase of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project to help save the lives of Ugandan mothers.

The Purdue College of Engineering recognized 24 outstanding engineering teachers for Spring 2019, including Yuehwern Yih and four other Purdue IE faculty members.

Prof. Yuehwern Yih, Academic Director of Long-Term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) Partner University-Led Solutions Engine (PULSE), opened its first-ever R4D Conference with two sessions on academic leadership and research ethics for strengthening development research.

Two Purdue professors and an IE graduate student are improving healthcare of pre-term infants in Malawi. The project includes designing new furniture to promote skin-to-skin contact between mothers and their premature infants - to help save babies' lives in resource-poor areas.

A team of experts in health, industrial engineering and design led by Professors Yuehwern Yih and Steve Visser is working to create a set of space-saving furniture to improve healthcare at a Malawi hospital.

At an upcoming conference in Uganda, Dr. Yuehwern Yih will give a presentation about making medical supply chains more efficient to improve maternal health.