It was once thought fruit flies can process more alcohol than their sister species because of a difference in their genome. Now, a collaboration between evolutionary and molecular biologists is challenging this hypothesis by putting ancient genes in modern fruit flies
With the support from a new grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Virginia Pitzer will develop models on how best to use typhoid vaccines in developing countries.
Bessie Schwarz (FES ‘14) is the co-founder of Cloud to Street, a company that uses machine learning techniques to predict climate change disasters. This technology can calculate the flood vulnerabilities of communities, and help governments to make more informed policy decisions to decrease the overall damage done by climate change disasters.