By
Beth Miller
May 5, 2021
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Megan Flake is the laboratory safety and protocol manager at the McKelvey School of Engineering. (Photo: Whitney Curtis)
Megan Flake has seemingly limitless energy and passion for her job.
She is the laboratory safety and protocol manager at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Flake is responsible for ensuring that everything runs smoothly and safely in the school’s labs. But what happens when all research shuts down due to a global pandemic?
“Our buildings are living beings,” Flake said. “We have cells that are alive and equipment that needs to be maintained. There were a lot of things that needed to continue to happen.”