STEM stories: Julia Rivera
BEST participant Julia Rivera, E26, shares her experience doing research at Massachusetts General Hospital.
COVID-19
The Silklab is reinventing how we look at silk
Researchers are developing underwater adhesives for shark tagging and small drones for identifying Covid-19 in the environment. (Boston Business Journal, paywall)
Using data to humanize health care
Combining empathy with more-inclusive patient data could help eliminate widening health disparities, said statistician and author Talithia Williams.
Where engineering pathways begin: Ivy Le, E25
Ivy Le's interest in biotechnology led her to chemical engineering and a community of problem solvers.
Xu Lab publishes two papers in PNAS
Professor Qiaobing Xu and colleagues publish papers on CRISPR technology and mRNA vaccines in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Wearable, printable, shapeable sensors detect pathogens and toxins in the environment
Tufts scientists develop biopolymer-based sensors that glow when dangers are present and can be printed on almost anything.
The next stages of the pandemic
Professor Daniele Lantagne, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Assistant Professor Ramnath Subbaraman, Public Health and Community Medicine, discuss changes in the pandemic on The Point podcast.
Digital exposure tools: Design for privacy, efficacy, and equity
Susan Landau, Bridge Professor at The Fletcher School and the School of Engineering, discusses the privacy, efficacy, and equity concerns of exposure notification apps.
Making sense of digital contact tracing apps
Bridge Professor Susan Landau discusses why we need to resist fear in the face of pandemic uncertainty and the normalization of health surveillance technologies.