# Aid keeps researchers afloat in Ukraine

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/aid-keeps-researchers-afloat-in-ukraine-2/
- Published: 2022-04-20T09:15:02-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image by matiasgalarza0333 via Pixabay. Article by Richard Stone. Science – April 14, 2022. Fledgling programs could ease refugee crisis and stem brain drain In early February, when war clouds were gathering over Ukraine, a more personal darkness descended on Yuliia Kosminska. Her 11-month-old daughter, Alyona, tripped at their home—“just a small fall, but she wasn’t feeling well,” says Kosminska, a thin-film physicist at Sumy State University in the country’s northeast. Tests soon revealed an aggressive form of leukemia, and Alyona was transferred to a pediatric cancer clinic in Kyiv. […] Click here to view original web page at www.science.org