Veripad selected for 2017 Mass Challenge Accelerator program
PAD commercialization takes another step towards reality. Veripad joins 127 other startup companies in this prestigious startup accelerator's 2017 class. Over…
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Margaret Berta explains how data sharing helps with analysis of medicines from the developing world
Hesburgh Libraries and the Center for Research Computing convened a workshop May 1 and 2, 2017, to discuss how libraries can faciliate preservation and sharing of data. These tasks are more and more important for researchers in the digital age. Margaret Berta gave a nice example of how her research…
Sarah Bliese wins 4 year Naughton Fellowship
Chemistry graduate student Sarah Bliese plans to make a difference in the health of people all over the world through her 2017 Naughton Graduate Fellowship. Air pollutants cause thousands of deaths each year. However, in much of the developing world, technological infrastructure for collecting even basic measurements about air quality is absent, so regulators have little to act upon. Only 10 of the 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have even a single air quality monitoring station reporting to WHO today. Sarah will develop and test a new type of sensor network. The network uses small numbers of sensor pods to calibrate hundreds of inexpensive paper test cards that can be deployed by citizen scientists--even by high school students.