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Kevin Kit Parker is the Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Harvard SEAS.
On May 5, 2013, CBS' 60 Minutes reported on the use of counterinsurgency tactics, developed by the U.S. military abroad, to tackle the problem of gang violence in Springfield, Mass.
A group of undergraduate students at Harvard last year had helped police to assess the efficacy of this "C3" policing strategy as part of the SEAS course ES 96, taught by Kevin Kit Parker, Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, who is also a U.S. Army Major. So Leslie Stahl and the 60 Minutes crew met Parker here in his lab for a look behind the scenes.
As CBS News describes: "In this 60 Minutes Overtime feature, you'll follow Major Parker back to his Harvard lab, where he and his team are devising a number of innovative—even bizarre—new solutions to age-old problems of the battlefield. ... You'll learn how Kit's lab is studying cuttlefish skin cells to design better camouflage and how they've used the cotton candy machine to help build a better wound dressing. And that's just the beginning."
Topics: Bioengineering, Applied Physics
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