<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2021/jennifer-biryukov-research.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>03/19/2021</pubDate><title>Alumna’s Research Furthers Scientists’ Understanding of COVID-19</title><description>Jennifer (Hopkins) Biryukov ’06, ’08 M.S. is conducting critical research at one of the primary government labs working with SARS-CoV-2, and her recent work exploring the impact of high temperatures on the virus was published in a leading academic journal.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>March 19, 2021</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2021/jen-dsc-0098.jpg" alt="Jennifer Biryukov ’06, ’08 M.S. with a model of the National Biodefense Analysis."/></image><image-caption>Jennifer Biryukov ’06, ’08 M.S. with a model of the National Biodefense Analysis &amp; Countermeasures Center.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2021</tag></tags></item>