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The Young Scholars Summer Research Program went remote for 2020, but the students have been up to the challenge.
A multidisciplinary team is working to build a pilot-scale system capable of producing 10,000 to 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines per run that would be ready for use as human trials of vaccines begin in the next year.
Two brothers who are alumni of the College of Engineering and Applied Science bring their expertise to a popular COVID-19 podcast.
An alumna of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is at the forefront of international COVID-19 vaccine research.