National Engineers Week
Tufts School of Engineering celebrates EWeek from February 17-25 with events, networking opportunities, and more!
News
Inspired to engineer a better future
Meet five Tufts students whose scholarship and research help reimagine what’s possible.
Getting better performance from brains and computers
Tufts engineers image hotspots in brains to deal with cognitive overload and in computer chips to make computers more efficient.
Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg
Frogs briefly treated with a five-drug cocktail administered by a wearable bioreactor were able to regrow a limb.
Reflecting on the legacy of Black leadership at Tufts
The Leading While Black project will honor eight luminaries who transformed governance and advanced equity and excellence at the university over the past 50 years.
Butterfly blueprints
Dean of Research and Doble Professor of Engineering Fiorenzo Omenetto and PhD student Luciana D'Amone discuss their research at Tufts Silk Lab in an episode of NOVA PBS (10:30 timestamp).
Light-based cancer treatments
A team of iBIT Lab researchers and colleagues study the utility of novel photoacoustic nanodroplets to enhance light-based cancer therapies.
Reducing breast cancer metastasis
Tufts researchers find that amiodarone, an ion channel blocker approved for other diseases, significantly inhibits tumor cell invasion.
Non-invasive imaging of deep tissue
Tufts biomedical and electrical engineers receive funding from the National Institutes of Health to develop a novel technique for frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy.