After 3 long, hard years of tireless work, our cross-campus, multi-discilinary academic team reaching our goal: State of CT support to scale up CR Boxes for every classroom in Connecticut! 💪🌬️💫💫

This passion project started from the point of care at @uconnhealth 🏥where I have been treating people living with MS since 2017 as a neuro-immunology nurse practitioner. 👩‍⚕️

When the 🦠 pandemic struck, my immunosuppressed patients were vulnerable - majority females with families and many educators that work in our CT Schools. 👩‍🏫👦🧒 [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…]

I looked at the mitigation efforts in these hubs of our communities and saw a gap - no air purifiers in schools, while @JohnsHopkinsSPH and @HarvardChanSPH recommended this intervention.[centerforhealthsecurity.org/2021/new-repor…] After watching @kprather88 of @UCSDHealth build 200 CR Boxes with her team on Twitter in 2021, I saw the brilliance of @CorsIAQ and @JimRosenthal4's idea and quickly got to work at @UConn assembling a multi-disciplinary team spanning UConn Health, UConn Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and @UConnNeag School of Education, College @UConnEngineer, and @ctchildrens to methodically study, pilot, build, and deploy #CorsiRosenthalBoxes in our state at scale.

💥👩‍🔬🧫📉Results from @EPAresearch @katmratliff + @UConn +@STEM_MAC "Owl Force One" #CRBox vs SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus "MS2" testing are in!

99.4% reduction of aerosolized virus from the air within 60 min - 97% in 30 min! s.uconn.edu/EPAnews


@CorsIAQ and @JimRosenthal4's brilliant invention crushes airborne virus within minutes and can be made by school children from simple, accessible materials for $60!

Improved indoor air quality. This is a human right with critical consequences. s.uconn.edu/EPAresults

#CRBox joy continues to spread! Thank you @FOX61News for covering our cross campus initiative to immediately improve indoor air quality with these DIY air cleaners. A public health initiative FOR students BY students! @CorsIAQ @JimRosenthal4 @kprather88 @CleanAirCrewOrg @UConn We at @uconnhealth and @UConn continue to support innovative, pragmatic solutions to real world public health problems! Our story and instructions for use courtesy of @CleanAirCrewOrg cleanaircrew.org/uconn/ @ARISense_AQ Generous financial support by Balvi - @VitalikButerin!

The power of a cross-campus public university team spanning @uconnhealth, @UConn Schools of Nursing, Medicine, Engineering, and Education : foundation.uconn.edu/covid-19-cases… #WomenInSTEM leading #GirlsInSTEM! Pragmatic, cost effective interventions for improved indoor air quality and having fun while learning physics, engineering, math, and science! The perfect combo that benefits all! Thanks @kprather88 for your leadership, generations are watching!