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Worcester Polytechnic Institute | July 29, 2020

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) chemical engineer has received four separate grants totaling more than $2 million to support his research into using yeast and fungi to take on significant genetic engineering challenges. Through his research in synthetic biology, Eric Young, the Leonard P. Kinnicutt Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at WPI, aims to engineer organisms to make it easier to develop numerous products, like medicines, biofuels, and plastics, and increase security by ...

Asite | September 24, 2020

Asite’s Common Data Environment (CDE) solution will be used on all of Ogilvie Construction’s current and upcoming construction projects. Ogilvie Construction has chosen to use Asite’s Common Data Environment (CDE) on all their upcoming projects, including various initiatives across Scotland. Asite’s cloud-based platform will streamline Ogilvie’s document management and increase collaboration across their projects. Rob Clifton, Asite SVP for UK & Europe said: &ld...

Phys.org | April 10, 2020

An international team of researchers is urging physical scientists and engineers to join the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic, and contribute toward long-term creation of knowledge and technologies for infectious respiratory diseases in general. Led by Northwestern University's Jiaxing Huang, the team has authored a perspective article published yesterday in the journal ACS Nano. Public health and healthcare workers are at the frontline to contain and mitigate the spread of this ...

GlobeSt | April 03, 2020

The question of construction in the time of coronavirus is one answered city-to-city. There is no Federal mandate, and it has left developers-particularly those with multiple projects in different markets-to investigate if construction can continue under shelter-in-place restrictions. At present, the regulations around construction during the pandemic vary significantly market-to-market. “With no universal federal ruling in place, cities and states are scrambling to determine whether const...