Photo courtesy of Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College
When Bates College returned to in-person instruction last fall, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew Kennedy and his two-student team – then-seniors Jillian Serrano and Wuyue Zhou – decided to take on the Herculean task of gathering, analyzing and posting daily COVID-19 data from the 11-member New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC), of which Bates College is a member.
Kennedy, who joined the Bates faculty in 2016 and whose research focus is in neuroscience, is quick to correct the record about the project’s origins: Serrano and Zhou were the driving force behind the NESCAC COVID tracker, he said.