{"id":873,"date":"2011-04-07T23:02:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/?p=873"},"modified":"2011-04-07T23:06:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T03:06:44","slug":"leed-travels-to-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/2011\/04\/07\/leed-travels-to-nicaragua\/","title":{"rendered":"LEED travels to Nicaragua!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/leed\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_3657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-875 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_3657\" src=\"\/leed\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_3657-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3657\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_3657-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_3657-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_3657.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During Boston University&#8217;s spring break, eleven senior design students and three professors from the College of Engineering set out for Nicaragua to try to understand the challenges of health care delivery in resource-limited settings.  See pictures from the trip <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/118111833288001528673\/BUEngineeringNicaraguaTrip2011#\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Four senior design teams were represented on the trip:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Portable No-Power Nucleic Acid Extraction Device<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Members: Laura Blaha, Ellen Reavy<\/p>\n<p>Advisor: Catherine Klapperich (LEED)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tissue Diagnostic Instrument for Global Health Applications Based on Optical Spectroscopy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Members: Molly Keenan, Alessandra Forcucci, Alison Lo<\/p>\n<p>Advisor: Irving Bigio (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmo\/\">Biomedical Optics Lab<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compact, Label-Free Biosensor for Point of Care Diagnostics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Members: Amy Canham, Aaron Larocque, Alex Giannakos, Chris Myers<\/p>\n<p>Advisors: Muhammad Zaman (LEED) and Selim Unlu (<a href=\"http:\/\/ultra.bu.edu\">Optical Characterization and Nanophotonics Laboratory<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Robust Platform for Drug Quality Verification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team Members: Paul Vermilion, Meredith Duffy, Nadia Ouhib<\/p>\n<p>Advisor: Muhammad Zaman (LEED)<\/p>\n<p>More blogs on Nicaragua to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Boston University&#8217;s spring break, eleven senior design students and three professors from the College of Engineering set out for Nicaragua to try to understand the challenges of health care delivery in resource-limited settings. See pictures from the trip here! Four senior design teams were represented on the trip: Portable No-Power Nucleic Acid Extraction Device [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1638],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/leed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}