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When Field Work Means Putting Your Life on the Line

June 24, 2009

 

Kit Parker is a professor of bioengineering. But right now, Harvard’s Cabot associate professor of applied science is serving as a U.S. Army major in Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division. His job is to participate in missions, analyze them, and then help engineer future operations so that they can be executed more efficiently. Harvard Magazine profiled Parker’s stateside bioengineering breakthroughs in January.

 

 

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