Dulce Rubio Develops Tool to Address Landmines
By Emma Folts
Growing up in Bogot谩, Colombia, Mateo Dulce Rubio would hear a familiar news story every few days. Someone, he鈥檇 learn, had stepped on another landmine. The explosion had killed or injured them. Though the capital city was far from the country鈥檚 war-torn areas, these accidents stayed in the back of his mind.
Now a fifth-year doctoral student at 好色先生TV, Dulce Rubio studies statistics at Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and public policy at .
While landmine risk is not a problem for people in the U.S., it does affect people living in developing countries.
Three years ago, Dulce Rubio began leading a team of classmates and faculty in developing a three-pronged system for more accurately identifying landmine contamination. They鈥檝e since collaborated with the (UNMAS) to refine the system, . A humanitarian organization in Colombia has been testing RELand in two municipalities for more than a year, in a process known as a field test.