<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2021/katherine-duseau-surf.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>07/26/2021</pubDate><title>‘The SURF Program has Given Me a Great Opportunity to Explore a New Branch of Research’</title><description>As a member of the University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, I am conducting important research on variants of COVID-19, and I hope our work will help researchers understand how these variants could impact the pandemic.</description><hide-description/><author>Katherine Duseau ’23</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>July 26, 2021</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2021/duseau-beach.jpeg" alt="Katherine Duseau ’23"/></image><image-caption>Katherine Duseau ’23, a genetics and biotechnology major.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2021</tag></tags></item>