School of Medicine An unforgettable year draws to a close
How to sum up 2020? It’s been one of the most challenging, complex, confounding years in my memory, but it’s also been a clarifying year, one of immense opportunity and hope that has affirmed my faith in medicine and our school on many levels. As an institution, we were tested in ways we’ve never been before, and I’m extremely proud of the creativity, tenacity, and resilience our faculty, staff, students, and trainees demonstrated in overcoming those challenges. With the imminent arrival at UAB of the first coronavirus vaccine doses to Alabama, we may soon turn a page in the pandemic saga of 2020, but I know I’ll never forget this year and the lessons it taught us.
An Elizabeth City State University professorâs work on harnessing energy through photosynthesis has garnered an additional $450,000 in funding.
ECSU, which is one of three historically black colleges and universities to receive major funding from the Nuclear Security Administration for research into alternative energy options, received the grant from North Carolina Central University for its part in the project, according to Annemarie Delgado, director of ECSUâs Office of Sponsored Programs.
The $450,000 grant funds Bijandra Kumarâs ongoing research into alternative energy options and more efficient and less expensive means to convert plant carbon dioxide to fuel.
Kumar, an assistant professor in ECSUâs Department of Technology, explained that plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar using sunlight â but the process is slow.