Two professors at St. Michael's College are part of a research team that has won a $2 million grant to study DNA technology. Mathematics professor Joanna Ellis-Monaghan and computerscience professor Greta Pangborn will be working with 10 experts on a project from the National Science Foundation to develop "self-replicating nanoscale origami." The project will look for ways to select and identify useful DNA configurations, copying them to produce more, and evolving the configurations over successive generations to produce the best features. Ellis-Monaghan and Pangborn will be working closely with each of the labs to develop mathematical problem formulations for the various processes.