Studies to Combat COVID-19 using Science and Engineering

Dr. Dana M. Barry is a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Clarkson University in the USA. She is the Scientific Board President for Ansted University, works part time at SUNY Canton, and has frequently served as a visiting professor and keynote speaker overseas. Dr. Barry has 5 graduate degrees including a M.S. degree in Chemistry from Clarkson University and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University, Japan.  Her name is on the Mars Rovers (Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity), the NASA spacecraft that landed on the asteroid Bennu in 2020, and on the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa -2, the first one in the world to land on an asteroid. She has over 300 academic publications including four Springer textbooks. Her honors include 21 consecutive APEX Awards for Publication / Communication Excellence, a Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), an Outstanding Volunteer Award (2017) and a National Chem-Luminary Award both from theAmerican Chemical Society. In 2019, she received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Materials Research Society of Japan (MRS-J) for outstanding work involving biofilms. She was nominated (2021) by the Academic Union of Oxford, UK, to receive the special title “The Name in Science,” an award for the most respected personalities in the fields of science, technology, and innovations.