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As BU scrambled to build a COVID-19 testing lab from the ground up last spring, its scientific director, Catherine Klapperich, tapped trusted help for an endeavor fraught with unknown safety risk: her former student and current colleague Lena Landaverde (ENG’13,’17), assistant director of the College of Engineering’s Precision Diagnostics Center.
“Since May 2020, Lena has been my equal partner” in the Charles River Campus Clinical Testing Laboratory, wrote Klapperich, an ENG professor and vice chair of biomedical engineering. “She is my hands in the lab and on the ground while I work largely virtually. She took personal risks to be in the lab [last] spring when we did not know how dangerous working with or near SARS-CoV-2 might be. Her courage, tenacity, creativity, and intellectual quickness and flexibility match or exceed anyone I have worked with at BU in 18 years.”
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One year after the fast-spreading worldwide COVID-19 pandemic forced Boston University to shut down its campuses and move to remote teaching and learning to help contain the deadly virus, President Robert A. Brown announced plans on Friday to return to a far more normal campus life next fall.
In letters sent to the Boston University community (one to faculty and staff, a separate one to students and parents), Brown wrote that current guidance suggests that the ongoing widespread and accelerating national vaccination, and the diminishing presence of the virus, should make it possible to return to learning in classrooms, studios, and laboratories without the social distancing protocols that have been in place since last September. Brown said the University does not plan to offer classes under Learn