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  • Winners from the $100k New Ventures Competition pose for a group photo with their large prop checks
    Engineering teams succeed at Tufts $100k New Ventures Competition
    The annual competition hosted by the Tufts Entrepreneurship Center celebrates innovation in business.
  • An image of the Science & Engineering Complex at Tufts University.
    Tufts alumni receive NSF Fellowships
    Tufts students and alumni Andrew Bourhis, Elizabeth Buechler, Thomas George, Zachary Pagel, and Brian Rappaport have been named Fellows in the 2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
  • A professor and a student with a large box with a QR code design.
    Faculty spotlight: Jivko Sinapov
    Assistant Professor Jivko Sinapov, the James Schmolze Assistant Professor in Computer Science, was one of ten winners in the nationwide Verizon 5G EdTech Challenge, and sees it as an opportunity to continue to mentor students.
  • A close up of a computer screen with code on it.
    Training next-gen computer scientists
    Tufts is preparing students to think through—and solve—the problems that arise from this digital age.
  • Illustration of a magnifying glass looking at line graphs. The magnifying glass shows a pie chart inside of its circle.
    Making sense of big data
    We’ve long had more data than we know what do with. That’s finally changing, with assists from Tufts School of Engineering's new B.S. and M.S. programs in Data Science.
  • The geometry of a moth's eye provides inspiration for a 3D printed antenna that absorbs specific microwave frequencies from any direction. Credit: Hojat Nejad.
    3D-printed metamaterials with novel optical properties

    Tufts electrical engineers and chemical engineers create novel optical devices, including an omnidirectional microwave antenna inspired by a moth's eye.

  • Elementary school children looking at a television screen, displaying information that they submitted to the Design Keeper app. The children are sitting on the floor and raising their hands.
    Creating communities of learners
    Tufts and UMass Boston researchers provide a framework for applying years of learning research to engineering education.
  • Sensing threads prepared with bromothymol blue (top thread), methyl red (middle thread) and MnTPP (bottom thread) are exposed to ammonia at 0 ppm (left panel) 50 ppm (middle panel) and 1000 ppm (right panel).
    Threads detect gases when woven into clothing
    Equipment- and training-free textile detectors, developed by Ph.D. candidate Rachel Owyeung, Associate Professor Matthew Panzer, and Professor Sameer Sonkusale, could be used in public health, workplace safety, military, and rescue applications.
  • New water filtration method
    A Tufts research team — including Assistant Professor Ayse Asatekin, the John A. and Dorothy M. Adams Faculty Development Professor, and alumna Ilin Sadeghi — developed a low-cost membrane to separate oil and water for environmental remediation and wastewater treatment.
  • The team behind ZwitterCo poses with a large check.
    Tufts start-up highlighted by BostInno
    ZwitterCo, a start-up founded by Tufts Gordon Institute and Civil and Environmental Engineering alumni, uses nanofilters to separate oil and grease from reusable water. The technique is based on Assistant Professor Ayse Asatekin's research.

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