A team of Tulane University biomedical engineering students has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 11
Team CerFix will join 35 student teams from national and international universities as they present low-cost technologies they have designed to address global health challenges in settings with limited resources. Three finalists will be selected to compete in a live virtual finale on March 26. The competition is sponsored by the Rice 360º Institute for Global Health.
Team CerFix, consisting of Emma Chapel, Katherine Mattingly, Madeline Tallman and Sydney Siegmeister, developed the device as part of a capstone design course required of all biomedical engineering seniors. They described it as an “efficient, intuitive tool to effectively visualize the cervix and screen for precancerous and cancerous lesions” among women living in low-resourced rural communities along the Amazon River in Peru.
Field team in the Sierra Negra study are, from left, Javier Jaramillo of Parque Nacional de Galapagos, Mario Ruiz of Instituto Geofisico Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Gabrielle Tepp of the U.S. Geological Survey and Sarah Jaye Oliva of Tulane.
Scientists from Tulane University are part of an international team of researchers whose study of the 2018 eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano in the Galápagos Islands provides vital information about future volcanic activity on the islands.
Their most recent research was published this month in the scientific journal
Nature Communications, revealing the first detailed description of the 2018 eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano, one of the world’s most active volcanoes.