One primary way our team spread awareness of our efforts to tackle rapid detection of mTBI was by having our project featured in several news articles. These articles included the following:
One primary way our team spread awareness of our efforts to tackle rapid detection of mTBI was by having our project featured in several news articles. These articles included the following:</p>
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<li>“<ahref = "https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/inno/stories/inno-insights/2022/09/12/uo-concussion-research-biotech.html">UO undergraduate research fosters biotech’s next generation of workers</a>” by Demi Lawrence for <i>Portland Business Journal</i></li>
<li>Article about iGEM competition for <i>Eugene Magazine</i>, written by Kristin Bartus (still in development)</li>
<li>“<ahref = "https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-undergrads-working-develop-concussion-biosensor">UO undergrads working to develop a concussion biosensor</a>” <i>Around the O </i> article by Laurel Hamers </li>
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Although these articles were meant to help educate the public about our team's project, we learned some interesting things along the way as well. For example, while speaking to one of the journalists about our project, she revealed that she recently got a concussion from hitting her head on a cabinet, which made the iGEM story particularly personal for her. Her accounts of the incident further underscored our previous research of how dubious a concussion diagnosis can really be, especially if the patient wasn’t certain they were experiencing symptoms until hours, or even days, after the incident.</p>
<p>Although these articles were meant to help educate the public about our team's project, we learned some interesting things along the way as well. For example, while speaking to one of the journalists about our project, she revealed that she recently got a concussion from hitting her head on a cabinet, which made the iGEM story particularly personal for her. Her accounts of the incident further underscored our previous research of how dubious a concussion diagnosis can really be, especially if the patient wasn’t certain they were experiencing symptoms until hours, or even days, after the incident.</p>