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UK, SCC Team Up to Confront COVID-19 With Antiviral Membrane, 3D-printed Face Masks

“The virus is about 120 nanometers in size — in the world of membranes, that's large. Even more so, it's not going to come as a virus by itself, flying in the air. It's going to come in the saliva, so it's going to be a much larger particle. A large particle is just not going through (this filter).”

UK Researchers Seek to Develop Antiviral Membrane Mask

“We have the capability to create a membrane that would not only effectively filter out the novel coronavirus like the N95 mask does, but deactivate the virus completely, this innovation would further slow and even prevent the virus from spreading."

Sanitizer to Health Care Workers, Manufacturing Instructions to Spirits Industry

The James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits is making sanitizer and creating an instructional video for distillers who want to do the same. The multidisciplinary Beam Institute is naturally suited for projects of this nature, with experts in biotechnology, chemistry and engineering.

Campe Receives National Research Fellowship to Study Campus Safety

Maggie Campe, a doctoral candidate in the UK Department of Sociology and research assistant in UK’s Center for Research on Violence Against Women, is the inaugural recipient of the Lindsey M. Bonistall Research Fellowship from PEACEOUTside Campus. The research fellowship aims to promote peaceful and safe living environments in college communities.

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