Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,

offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Baccliorate, Masters, and Doctoral Levels,

is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.

Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

and eight new National Centers of Excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years.

To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.

Welcome to the science podcast for April 10th, 2020. I'm Sarah Crespi.

First up this week, we talked with staff writer Robert Service about the debate over

airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus. Then newswriter Jennifer Cousin-Frank

joins us to talk about the genetics and brain circuitry behind anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder

that affects about 1% of people in the United States.

Now we have staff writer Robert Service. He wrote this week on a debate over whether the novel coronavirus is transmissible by air. Hi, Bob. Hi, Sarah. This has come up before this idea that

COVID-19 might actually go through the air from person to person.

What has brought this idea back to the forefront? I think part of it is just that people continue to

learn lots more about this virus as time goes on. And so the wealth of understanding about it and how it

likely spreads continues to increase. And I think what you're seeing is

public health officials and policy people trying to be flexible and trying to be responsible to

pay attention to the latest data and perhaps err on the side of caution. So how do you decide

if something is transmitted to the air?

I mean, we know that respiratory droplets can carry this virus, but what changes the definition

to airborne transmission? What has been clear from the outset of this pandemic has been that

...