News Tenacious new gun researchers are determined to break the cycle of mass shootings.

Crime Lab Tenacious new gun researchers are determined to break the cycle of mass shootings

Chicago Tribune / March 25, 2018
By William Wan

Yifan Zhang was finishing her PhD in biostatistics at Harvard five years ago when news broke of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

As a graduate student from China, specializing in highly technical design of clinical drug trials, she had little connection to America's long-running debate over gun violence. But even now, she said, the anguished faces of those parents she saw on TV remain seared in her memory.

So when she heard about a gun-violence research project at Stanford University that could use the statistical skills she had honed on pharmaceuticals, she jumped at the chance.

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25 March 2018

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