Human health and bioengineering

Senior Jenny Skerker spent the summer studying air pollution around the tunnel system created by Boston's Big Dig.

Tufts engineers help develop a new technique that could enhance standard criteria for early cancer diagnosis.

Tufts engineers have developed new, non-destructive techniques to evaluate tissue healing following a heart attack.

Professor Shafiqul Islam was awarded the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water Creativity Award, a prestigious international award for his work using satellite data to predict cholera outbreaks.

In the  Summer Scholars  program, junior Grace Aro made membranes and tested their ability to filter contaminants out of water.

Associate Professor Remco Chang, students, and collaborators at Maine Medical Center created a project to investigate how older men with prostate cancer use visualizations to better understand their own health risk information.

Process could pave way for engineering innervated tissues such as skin, cornea.

Nikhil Nair seeks new treatment for potentially fatal, rarely-studied congenital "orphan diseases" caused by improper food metabolism.

Tufts engineers have developed threads that, when sutured into tissue, collect and wirelessly transmit diagnostic data.