Indian-American teen awarded for invention

Washington: An Indian-American teenager has been conferred with the 2019 National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education Award for her invention designed to improve treatments for glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer. Kavya Kopparapu, 19, who got the $10,000 award, is a freshman at Harvard University. The budding scientist has invented GlioVision, a precision medicine platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) that predicts brain tumour characteristics in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods by using a scanned image of a biopsy rather than a DNA sample. IANS

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Acclaimed architect Kevin Roche dies

New York: The acclaimed Ireland-born architect Kevin Roche has died, leaving his mark on world-class buildings from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the city’s Museum of Jewish Heritage to airports in New York and Washington. He died at 96 of natural causes. He had designed more than 200 buildings around the world, winning the Pritzker prize — the equivalent of the Nobel for architecture. AP