When the COVID-19 virus started to make a serious impact in the U.S., with hospitals nationwide overwhelmingly underequipped with protective gear, some Gainesville-area jacks-of-all-trades went to work.
The collaborative effort started with Forrest Masters, a University of Florida engineering professor, sending messages to other labs on campus on March 19 to see if something could be done. By April 1, the group met for the first time.
“He put a call out to all of the labs to sort of mobilize us,” said Juan Griego, director of UF’s DCP Fabrication Lab, which was created out of a collaboration between the School of Architecture and School of Art. “First he wanted to figure out how many labs were around and what we all had in equipment.
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