Cole Speidel

The UPenn-Botswana Partnership is expanding its telemedicine capabilities through a new joint project with Microsoft and other partners.

As part of Bike & Build, a national nonprofit, the student volunteers will ride an average of 70 miles a day, spending days off the road building homes in at-risk communities.

The brains behind the next big start-up may not be computer science prodigies or Wharton graduates, but former inmates.