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News 2011

• Dow Chemical rewards Cambridge sustainability research
• Tufts Graduate Students Receive $10,000 Prizes from Dow
• No breathing easy
• Gravel, of iCreate to Educate, bridges Tufts work with STEM initiatives
• Tufts graduate students receive $10,000 prizes
• Awards encourages women to break tech glass ceiling
• Quantum Dots Help Track Endoscope Movement in Colon
• Optical Device Offers Less Painful Colonoscopy
• Endoscopic Fiber Optic Shape Tracker Technology Can Reduce Pain during Colonoscopy
• Rolling Robot Inspired by Caterpillar
• New robots curl up like caterpillars and scoot
• Soft Robots Designed with Inputs from Movement of Caterpillars
• Caterpillars Inspire New Movements in Soft Robots
• Ant Rafts And Caterpillar Robots
• Record number of girls to take part in Tech Challenge 2011
• A less painful colonoscopy
  (Also reported in PrivateMDLabs (online) and HealthCanal.com)
• The Wheels Of Life
• TPV Researcher Wins NSF Early-Career Award
• Tufts Biomedical Engineer Fiorenzo Omenetto Named Guggenheim Fellow
  (Also reported in OptoIQ.com)
• Verizon, Tufts team to aid women in engineering
• Tufts professor wins NSF award for TPV work
• Tufts Engineering Professor Wins NSF Career Award for Thermophotovoltaic Research
• Verizon to donate $60,000 to Tufts University
• Verizon Foundation Awards Grant to Tufts University to Engage More Girls in Engineering
• Carnegie's Meserve first recipient of Tufts' Vannevar Bush Dean's Medal
• News in Brief: Molecules/Matter & Energy
• THE POWER LIST: People advancing the civil engineering profession
• In the Spotlight: Ninrat, GEM Scholar
• Who's coming? Who's going? Who's changing places?
• New measurement into biological polymer networks
• The Reinvention of Silk
• Anita Borg Institute Announces 2011 Women of Vision Award Winners
• The Promise of Silk
• Edmund Optics Higher Education Grant Program Goes Global
• Tufts' Manno takes dean post at Olin College
• Climate's Strong Fingerprint In Global Cholera Outbreaks
• Hagman earns highest Civil Air Patrol award
• Biomedicine: The silk road to recovery
• The Silk Road To Recovery: Fabric Used In Biomedicine
• Edmund Optics selects grant recipients
  (Also reported in Photonics.com)
• Lessons on regrowth, on a small scale

News 2010

• Tufts Engineering Dean Linda Abriola Among Top U.S. Women in Science
• Year in Review Part 1 - Waterworks
• Curious about Curio House
• 'Harry Potter' technologies may make wizards of us all
• Erythromycin A produced in E. coli for first time
• Dream home takes shape in Sandwich
• Cell Cultures in 3-D
• STOMP for STEM
• Dow's Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Aims to Foster Sustainable Solutions
• AFOSR awards grants to 43 scientists and engineers through its Young Investigator Research Program
• The robot that reads your mind to train itself
• Four Tufts students share $10,000 in Dow sustainability grants
• Earth angels
• Mutant worms produce vast quantities of spider silk
• Microbes Engineered for Low-Cost Production of Anti-Cancer Drug, Taxol
• Boosting Taxol Production
• Scientists discover way to mass-produce cancer drug
• Creating User-Friendly Medical Technology
• Researchers engineer microbes for low-cost production of anticancer drug Taxol
• Less Expensive Low-Temperature Catalyst For Hydrogen Purification
• Alkali Metal Aids Catalysis
• Researchers discover less expensive low-temperature catalyst for hydrogen purification
• Tufts, Harvard research cites progress in hydrogen power
• The Silk Renaissance
• Bringing Engineering to K-12 Classrooms
• Childhood Engineer: Keeping mechanical interests alive in a digital age.
• Implantable silk metamaterials may advance biomedicine, biosensing
• Tufts Students Design Medical Technology
• Gulf waste heads to landfills, some with problems
• Implantable Antenna Could Someday Alert Doctors To Signs Of Disease
• Researchers approach 'invisibility'
• Antenna made from silk, gold could help tracking diabetes
• An Implantable Antenna
• Edible Optics, Implantable Electronics
• The Cholera Epidemic: Have we found a solution?
• Study of X-way pollution will focus on Dot streets
• Making Spider-Strength Materials
• Discovery in Silk Technology Offers Solutions for Medicine and Electronics
• Recipes For Limb Renewal
• Behind the Secrets of Silk Lie High-Tech Opportunities
• Silk
• Research aims at making artificial silk
• Silk fibres could pave way for edible optics in future
• The Future of Medical Materials
• Native-like spider silk produced in metabolically engineered bacterium
• Haptic feedback tools being developed for laparoscopic surgery training
• Soon You May Have Silk in Your Brain
• Designing Touch-Sensitive Virtual Reality Tools To Train And Test Tomorrow's Surgeons
• Better Living Through Implants
• The smartest people in Tech
• Pathology Lab On Wrist, Thanks To Silk Microchips
• Tufts graduate students win $10,000 prizes
• Silkchip developed to check health conditions
• 'Bio-chips' may monitor patient's blood
• The Solar Decathlon- Homes Powered by the Sun
• Producers of Dog Whisperer Casting Its New Reality Pilot 'Nerd Girls'
• Eye Tracking for Mobile Control
• Somerville homes near I-93 are targeted for pollution study
• A whole new space program: NASA funds boost offerings at Tufts
• Somerville receives federal grant to study air pollution near I-93 homes
• Race cars go for fuel efficiency
• Silky Circuits
• $1.5M in NASA education grants heading to Massachusetts
• Patrick announces NASA summer pilot program at MIT, other schools
• NASA grant to fund FSC summer course
• Formula racing with a fuel-efficient twist
• Microfluidics at Tufts University School of Engineering
• Silk Brain Recording Implants Developed
• Scientists Turn to Silk Strands for Surgery, Circuits
• "VisWall" Opens Door to Many Worlds
• Tufts Names Business Plan Winners
• Safer Brain Recording Device Melts Into Place
• Proximity Health takes top spot in Tufts biz plan challenge
• DNA-decorated CNTs on CMOS package detects emissions
• Ultrasound pioneer receives highest award in engineering profession: Among 6 honored with AAES National Engineering Awards
• TR10: Implantable Electronics
• A Brain-Recording Device that Melts into Place
  (Reported in other media outlets including Wired, MIT Tech Review, and Scientific Computing)
• Ellen Kullman's quest to make DuPont great again
• Leading DuPont: After a difficult first year as CEO, Ellen Kullman sets the stage for growth
• Father, disabled son overcome obstacles together
• Wireless Grids Corporation to Endorse National Science Foundation Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed (WiGiT) Open Specifications
• Replacement bones could be grown to order
• Brownsberger: Flooding issues drown region
• Tufts engineering faculty earn prestigious national awards
• Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
• Business to book it to Somerville's Davis Square?
• Female Tech Pros Use Outreach to Honor Ada Lovelace
• Kuwait moves to clean up Saddam's scorched earth legacy
• The Catapult
• ADEC announces 2010 World Robot Plympiad
• Gizmos sniff out a breath of fresh data
• Sensing devices are becoming more adept at detecting toxins and pollutants
• HUD Awards Bay State $2.4M To Protect Against Lead Paint
• National Grid Promotes Engineering
• National Grid Takes Action to Address Impending Critical Shortage of Utility Engineers
• UM-Flint names new provost
• Engineering Jobs: Hiring and Salary Outlook for 2010
• 15 Big Small-Business Contests
• Silicon gets silky
• From Belarus To Brookline To Tampa Bay

News 2009

• Invensys boosts robotics at Ahern
• For these CEOs, schools gave basis for doing good
• Silicon-silk electronics for the body
• Curio House Leads to Greener Pastures
• Silk-Based Adhesive Gel Provides Potential for In Situ and In Vivo Devices
• Biodegradable Transistors
• Cholera outbreaks depend on river flow, say scientists
• Dow Chemical Co. awards student innovation honors
• National Instruments - LabVIEW Education Edition Graphical Software will Inspire Hands-On Learning
• Bangladesh cholera linked to rivers
• Implantable Silicon-Silk Electronics
• Identifying Molecules In Infrared Could Lead To New Medicines
• MAKE Magazine Reveals What Fascinates Working Scientists in "The Elements of Humanity"
  Watch the video.
• Nuance ex-CEO takes up residence at Tufts
• Silk sericin nanoparticles behave as universal drug carriers
• Need a New Heart? Grow Your Own.
• BAC teams with Tufts on solar home competition
• Tufts U. to Use $40-Million Gift to Promote 'Engineering Leadership'
• Big Gifts: Tufts U. Gets $40-Million to Develop Engineering Leaders
• Analogic founder aims to give $40 million to Tufts
• Analogic founder gives Tufts $40M
• Bernard Gordon donates $40M to Tufts engineering leadership program
  This story was also reported in:
  • Boston.com (online)
  • Boston Business Journal
  • WTEN.com (Albany, NY)
  • Bloomberg News
• Silk-based optical waveguides meet biomedical needs
• Two dads, two sons -- a lot of love
• Solar Express
• Robots to join students at the Ahern School
• Attracting Future Engineers with Hands-on Learning
• The Hottest Commodity
• Comprehensive air quality testing for one year begins soon
• School district revamps science program
• Infrared Fuses Can Send Secret Messages
• Silk's superpowers!
• Probes, practice and perfection
• Top 5 technologies of tomorrow
• Hippo Sweat Offers Key to Natural Sunscreen
• Energy recovery breakthrough
• Shock absorbers tapped to produce power
• Shock! Regenerative Damper Technology Coming Soon
• Scientists develop power-generating shock absorbers
• Seeing the Bigger Picture: Putting the Potential Value of "Spider Silk" Technology into Perspective
• Does even more than a spider can: How to make something useful out of spider silk
• BiOS Symposium dominates Photonics West
• Tufts to study immigrant obesity
• Tufts to study obesity among new immigrants
• Frederick Nelson, 76; led engineering program at Tufts
• Mass. launches effort to protect coast residents: Rising sea levels pose a threat
• Regeneration no longer just about braking
• New "Control Knobs" for Stem Cells Identified
• Engineering for Humanity

News 2008

• Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Elected AAAS Fellow
• Degrees of green
• Electricity sparks stem-cell transformation
• The EE Gender Gap Is Widening
• How fabrics are re-fashioning medicine
• Company focuses on hybrids
• New set of controls for stem cells discovered
• Tufts Grants Rights for Mileage-Increasing Transportation Technology to Electric Truck
• Diane Souvaine named to National Science Board
• Higher Power
• The Human Body
• Tufts grants rights to battery-recharging technology
• Silk the key to rebuilding bone
• The 50 Women to Watch 2008
• Conference turns LEGO high-tech
• Immigrant workers seen at increased risk
• Welcome Tufts Engineering Class of 2012
• New Faculty Serve Up Sustainable Ideas and Practice What They Teach
• Summer Scholar Hsiao Detects Cancer Cells
• Nerd Girls website encourages women into tech and science
• Artificial cochlea: an example of structural processing
• Quanterix lands SBIR grant for early cancer detection
• Tufts campus a 'cocoon' for Indian freshmen
• DuPont Co. board elects first female CEO
• The World's First Soft-Bodied Robot Tested by Zwick's Biaxial Testing Machine
• Engineering student addresses US Congress about biofuels
• Engineering in the Classroom
• Clean-tech consultancy born at Tufts finds traction
• Edible silk may warn if food contaminated
• 'Edible optics' could make food safer
• Could 'Edible Optics' Save Your Life?
• Silkworms can sense certain food contaminants
• Tufts team makes tiny seeing sensor from silk
• "Edible Optics" Could Make Food Safer
• Tufts to Develop Morphing "Chemical Robots"
• Kaklamanos Awarded Tau Beta Pi Fellowship
• Alumnus Leaves Largest Gift in Tufts History
• Making South Africa a Model for Water Quality
• Engineers' Need for Speed
• Engineers Earn Tufts' Top Teaching Awards
• Doin the Dinosaur STOMP with CEEO
• Pamela Goldberg Wins Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education
• Visualization Wall Grand Opening
• David Walt Elected to National Academy of Engineering
• Engineers Head to Middle East for World Future Energy Summit
• Lautze Dams Malaria in Ethiopia
• Caterpillar-Inspired Robot Morphs into Modern Art
• CEEO Builds Better Teachers with LEGO
• Robert Hannemann to direct Tufts Gordon Institute

News 2007

• Engineering Nerd Girls Receive $10,000 from Verizon Foundation
• Prospective Students Seek Solutions in Engineering Open House
• Engineer Jason Kapit's Mission to Mars
• Nerd Girls Create Excitement About Engineering
• Innovative Nanotechnology gets its Start at Tufts
• Creators of Gordon Institute win $500,000 National Academy of Engineering Prize
• Keck Foundation Grant Awarded for "Biomimetic Technology" to Create Soft-bodied Robots
• Incoming Engineers are at Top of the Class
• Engineer Jason Kapit's Mission to Mars
• Get Tubular (braiding) with Diana Mark (E'08)

News 2006

• Environmental Research Lab Wins Project of the Year
• Seven Programs ABET Accredited
• CEEO receives $1 Million to Teach Science through Engineering
• The Engineering Class of 2010
• Engineers Without Borders: Building Bridges Between Medford and the World
• Lufkin Foundation Supports New Microfabrication Teaching Facility