<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2019/infection-diagnosis.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>05/15/2019</pubDate><title>Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Recognized for Work to Develop a Method to Quickly Diagnose Viral Infections</title><description>Competing against students from Yale University and other New England universities, May Thuzar Maung, a biomedical engineering graduate student, won the Connecticut Microelectronic and Optoelectronic Consortium Best Poster Award for her research on the development of a quick test that could help doctors detect infectious diseases within minutes.</description><hide-description/><author>Jackie Hennessey, contributing writer</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>May 15, 2019</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/engineering/news/2019/tcoe-newsletter/maung-may-thuzar.jpg" alt="Image of May Thuzar Maung ’19 M.S."/></image><image-caption>May Thuzar Maung ’19 M.S. with her poster</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2019</tag></tags></item>