Boise State Receives Grant to Research Biological Hazards

The money keeps coming in for Boise State.  The Univeristy recently received a grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in conjunction with the National Science Foundation to research chemical and biological hazards. 

Inanc Senocak and Jodi Mead of Boise State will be conducting the research that will reconstruct and simulate hazards once they have been detected in the atmosphere.  The pair will study how to reduce and control the threat of contamination that could occur to civilians as well as troops in the battlefield.



Senocak has already secured millions in grants for his work in other areas--he is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.  While working on a postdoctoral fellowship, Senocak used statistical algorithms and models of air pollution to reconstruct how contaminants would disperse in the atmosphere.  Mead, a professor of mathematics at Boise State, assisted Senocak with her expertise in numerical analysis.