<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2023/0925-alex-carney-ai-microscope.php" dsn="blogs"><featured/><feature_title>Featured News</feature_title><title>An AI-driven microscope that could transform global healthcare</title><author>Peter MacDonald</author><author_email>info@skidmore.edu</author_email><pubDate>09/26/2023 03:59:12 PM</pubDate><display>display</display><description>Skidmore alumnus Alex Carney ’22, who participated in a collaborative engineering program with Dartmouth College, is now chief technical engineer for SmartScope, a project that is using cutting-edge technology to speed up medical diagnoses.</description><category>Alumni Stories</category><image_listing><img src="/news/2023/images/0925-alex-carney-thumbnail.png" alt="Skidmore alumnus Alex Carney ’22 smiles at the camera next to the SmartScope telescope. "/></image_listing><image><img src="/news/2023/images/0925-alex-carney-hero.jpeg" alt="A student uses the SmartScope microscope under Carney's direction as others watch."/></image><caption>SmartScope, which Alex Carney ’22 (standing, right) helped to develop, could speed up clinical diagnoses by 50%, revolutionizing healthcare in the United States and beyond.(Photo: Dartmouth College/Katie Lenhart)</caption></item>