Tag: Biomedical engineering

Grad student helping organize PPE production, COVID response in developing countries

While her University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering classmates were landing jobs or applying to graduate school, Rebecca Alcock was preparing for a summer of volunteer work in a Guatemalan mountain town and trying to sort through her uncertainty about the future. During those three months at the Engineers Without Borders office in Joyabaj in Guatemala’s Western …

Bringing cheap and accurate tuberculosis tests to Africa

Since the 1970s, millions of women have appreciated the ease of a urine-based home pregnancy test to find out if their family is about to grow. Since the 1970s, millions of women have appreciated the ease of a urine-based home pregnancy test to find out if their family is about to grow.