Professor, students from Clarkson testing invention

POTSDAM — A Clarkson University professor and his students have recently begun testing a new invention that uses ultraviolet light to kill airborne germs in medical facilities.

The college is working alongside Syracuse University to test the device, which was invented by the Syracuse-based company Haledyne Inc. and funded through a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Center of Excellence program. Over the next several months, Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering Dean Goodarz Ahmadi and his students will be using computer modeling to study the flow of air into and around the device and improve the invention's design.