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4/2/2020 Featured Story

Biology Chair: Our Response is Still Not Fast Enough

Biology Chair: Our Response is Still Not Fast Enough

Prof. Susanna Remold, the new chair of biology, served on a White House working group on pandemic prediction. She says the U.S. response to COVID-19 was hurt by the lack of testing and contact tracking early on – and that it still lags.

4/2/2020 Featured Story
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CEO Gregory Chiklis ’92 Helps to Improve Testing for Virus

CEO Gregory Chiklis ’92 Helps to Improve Testing for Virus

As CEO and chief scientific officer of Franklin, Mass.-based MRN Diagnostics, Gregory Chiklis has spent the past six weeks in a race against the clock, working on a rapid blood test for COVID-19.

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Computer Science Professor Awarded $4.5M for Cybersecurity Research

Computer Science Professor Awarded $4.5M for Cybersecurity Research

Computer Science Prof. Xinwen Fu has been awarded more than $4.5 million by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy for his research on the Internet of Things, or IoT.

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Earth Science Professor Awarded NSF Grant

Earth Science Professor Awarded NSF Grant

Asst. Prof. Richard Gaschnig of the Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has been awarded a three-year, $222,600 grant by the National Science Foundation to study the chemical exchange that occurs between the ocean crust and the earth’s mantle during a geological process called subduction.

3/12/2020 Featured Story

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