When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Professor of Physics Dale Syphers was in the middle of his sabbatical, researching forensic physics. He “turned on a dime” and threw himself into the study of how ultraviolet (UV) light can be deployed in the fight against COVID-19 and other viruses.
Exposing personal protective equipment, like N-95 respirators, to shortwave ultraviolet light clears t