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(Photo courtesy UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING) 
 University of Idaho Engineering Department members, including Sandpoint native Chad Dunkel, right, check the results from testing a one-of-a-kind mobile sanitation cabinet created by the university and now in use at St. Joseph's Medical Center.

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Local helps build mask disinfectant station
April 16, 2020 1 a.m.

Local helps build mask disinfectant station

Somewhere in the confines of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center stands a one-of-a-kind mobile sanitation cabinet powered by Ultraviolet C that can clean 24 healthcare masks every 10 minutes. This cabinet was delivered on April 9 after two weeks of designing, building and validating the prototype by a team of professors and graduates at the University of Idaho, including Sandpoint native and biological engineering research support scientist Chad Dunkel.