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Researchers across Stanford Engineering apply their expertise to better understand the virus.

A woman taking a wastewater sample at a facility on the Stanford campus

Aug 5, 2022

An initiative to monitor wastewater aims to help guide public health responses

Health, School News, Technology & Society

An image of a person's hand taking a sample of wastewater for analysis

May 24, 2022

Q&A: Tracking COVID infections through wastewater

Environment, Health

Jim Swartz: “This could be how we make sure the world never has to suffer a pandemic like COVID-19 again.” | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

Mar 17, 2021

A scholar shows how a rapid-response vaccine could stop pandemics

Health, Technology & Society

Markus Covert explores the history of vaccines and mRNA production. | iStock/DrAfter123

Mar 8, 2021

The long — and very, very short — journey to the COVID-19 vaccines

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Wastewater surveillance could help alert decision-makers about potential outbreaks days before individuals recognize symptoms of the virus. | Adobe Stock/Visual Generation

Dec 7, 2020

Wastewater can help identify changes in community COVID-19 infections

Environment, Health

Occupancy caps on reopened stores can lower the risks. | Unsplash/Lucas Santos

Nov 10, 2020

Researchers create a computer model to predict how COVID-19 spreads

Health, Technology & Society

Ready, aim, sterilize: a light-based device helps resource-strapped health care providers protect themselves against COVID-19. | Shutterstock/wacomka

Nov 9, 2020

Two engineers design and donate a technique to make N95 masks reusable

Health, Technology & Society

The microlab test takes advantage of the fact that coronaviruses leave behind tiny genetic fingerprints wherever they go. | Getty Images

Nov 5, 2020

A new genetic microlab can detect COVID-19 in minutes

Health, Technology & Society

A new way to make N95 mask reusable could stem shortages. | U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jake Greenberg, via Flickr

Oct 5, 2020

Researchers combine heat and humidity to disinfect N95 masks for reuse

Health, Materials

Widespread testing of incarcerated people who are asymptomatic is among the steps that could help end the outbreak. | Image by Adobe Stock/bibiphoto

Sep 23, 2020

Why prisons and jails have become COVID hotspots

Health

Stanford Engineering faculty are working to find novel approaches to a novel challenge. | Adobe Stock/Zubada

Aug 17, 2020

Ken Goodson: How the School of Engineering is taking on COVID-19

Health, Technology & Society

If wearing masks is controversial, how will Americans respond if COVID-19 tests lead to requests for voluntary quarantines? | iStock/elenabs

Jul 22, 2020

Can contact tracing work at COVID scale?

Health

Artist rendering of a spaceship leaving a lunar colony. | Image credit: SpaceX

May 11, 2020

How do we protect planets from biological cross-contamination?

Energy, Environment

A portrait, taken over Zoom, of bioengineer Manu Prakash while he was sheltering-in-place at home | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

May 1, 2020

A lab takes a frugal-science approach to COVID-19

Health, Technology & Society

A nasal swab | Stocksy/Sean Locke

Apr 27, 2020

How a rapid field testing device could help head off future epidemics

Health

A new calculator provides county-by-county predictions of hospitalizations tied to the coronavirus. | Adobe Stock/ANDREW NORRIS

Apr 15, 2020

A new COVID-19 calculator is designed to help hospitals prepare

Health

A prototype of a new type of protective face mask | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

Apr 14, 2020

COVID-19 prompts a team of engineers to rethink the humble face mask

Health, Technology & Society

Visit SocialDistancing.Stanford.edu to provide information about local shelter-in-place policies. | Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Apr 13, 2020

When can we ease social-distancing?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Exploring the virus | iStock/mammuth

Apr 10, 2020

Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything: COVID-19 special edition

Health, Technology & Society

Tina White | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

Apr 9, 2020

Researchers help develop a privacy-focused coronavirus alert app

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

The web of neurons that make up the brain is an apt metaphor for a network of cities — only the travelers are people, not electrical signals. | Unsplash/Tomas Williams

Apr 9, 2020

A brain-inspired model can help predict COVID’s spread and recovery

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

A big challenge is how to develop trust, collaboration and information-sharing among people who don't see each other in person. | Adobe Stock/Antonio Rodriguez

Apr 8, 2020

Companies scrambled to set up virtual workspaces. Is this the future?

Technology & Society

Stanford researchers helped lead the nationwide scientific team behind N95decon.org | Unsplash/Brian McGowan

Apr 2, 2020

A website shows how hospitals can decontaminate and reuse N95 masks

Health, Technology & Society

A transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. | Flickr/NIAID-RML

Mar 27, 2020

What are the factors that affect COVID-19 transmission?

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