Certificate in Cellular Agriculture

Program of Study

The certificate requires four courses:

1. Two core required courses:

BME 173 Cellular Agriculture and Bio-fabricated Foods and
BME 174 Sustainable Gastronomy: Cellular Agriculture and Biotechnology for Food

2. Two electives, chosen from the following options:

ANTH 142 American Meat
BME 184 Entrepreneurship and Strategy
CHBE 166 Cell and Microbe Cultivation
ENT 107 Entrepreneurial Leadership
ENV 190 Practicing in Food Systems
IDGH 548 Microbial Molecular Biology
NUTC 262 Sustainable Food Systems and Markets
NUTR 238 Economic Food and Nutrition Policy
NUTR 246 Macronutrients
NUTR 248 Precision Nutrition
NUTR 280 Nutrition and Entrepreneurship
NUTR 285 Food Justice
NUTR 331 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
ME 125 Mechanics of Materials at the Micro & Nano Scale
UEP 267 Sustainability Metrics

This interdisciplinary certificate is administered by the Department of Biomedical Engineering with collaboration from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

Current students in a Tufts AS&E MS program must formally apply for a certificate program, and be admitted at least two semesters before completing their primary graduate degree program, in order to be eligible to receive a concurrent certificate. Please see the SOE Graduate Handbook for additional information about this policy.

Current Tufts full-time graduate students enrolled outside of AS&E who are interested in this program should contact their home school Registrar.