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1. Harder Than It Seams
As founder and CEO of design and product development company Bilio, Billy Smith ’07, with his brother, Nick, is working to make better, more comfortable face masks.
HACKS & CHOPS Professor of Music Gwynne Kuhner Brown ’95 is quoted in the All Things Considered story “Someone Finally Remembered William Dawson’s ‘Negro Folk Symphony’” on NPR.
Antiracism Resources The Department of Sociology and Anthropology has gathered collections of reading and media recommendations, scholarly perspectives, and other resources for confronting racism and promoting equity and diversity in the disciplines of sociology and anthropology.
MAKE IT RAIN Scientists from the Readiness Acceleration & Innovation Network (RAIN) Incubator recently used a machine in Puget Sound’s biology department to help determine the effectiveness of several COVID-19 test kits for the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. The machine, a Bio-RAD CFX96 detection module with a C1000 thermal cycler, allows quantitative real-time polymerase chain reactions (qPCR). According to Science Core Facility Technician Amy Replogle,that's a technique that turns a small amount of DNA into a larger amount of DNA and tracks the amount being made with a fluorescent dye so that scientists can detect how much of something—like COVID-19—is present.
