Princeton resident takes top honors as part of West Point team
Princeton resident takes top honors as part of West Point team
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U.S. Military Academy Cadet Alexa Zammit, a native of Princeton, and her team, Team Superstrand, recently placed first in the 2021 Warfighter Innovation in Science and Engineering Challenge.PHOTO COURTESY OF U.S.M.A. AT WEST POINT
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U.S. Military Academy Cadet Alexa Zammit, a native of Princeton, and her team, Team Superstrand, recently placed first in the 2021 Warfighter Innovation in Science and Engineering Challenge.PHOTO COURTESY OF U.S.M.A. AT WEST POINT
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A Princeton resident is part of one of two West Point teams that earned first and second place titles at the 2021 Warfighter Innovation in Science and Engineering Challenge during a live virtual event hosted by the Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center on April 27.
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West Point biochemist warns about threat of bioweapons
Updated on: January 20, 2021 / 9:11 AM / CBS News
In this episode of
Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Dr. Ken Wickiser, a biochemist and associate dean of research at U.S. Military Academy West Point, about his piece Engineered Pathogens and Unnatural Biological Weapons: The Future Threat of Synthetic Biology. Wickiser describes the growing influence of synthetic biology and what can happen if it gets in the wrong hands. Listen to
Highlights
What is synthetic biology? Synthetic biology is the process of engineering natural genetic systems. In terms of engineering: taking what nature has provided us and optimizing it, co-opting it, repurposing it, making it more efficient, and making it more cost effective. In large part for good purposes, to make new and novel biomaterials, to make new and novel pharmaceuticals. To make existing pharmaceuticals cheaper, more abundant, more available