Showing neurotypicals how autistic communication works
Researchers develop an AI tool to better comprehend how autistic individuals communicate and perceive the world through language.
Social good
Behind the levee: The forgotten communities at risk in Massachusetts
Louis Berger Chair and Professor Farshid Vahedifard shares his insights in a recent Boston Globe article (paywall).
New opportunities in Public Health Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering launches a new minor and renames a B.S.E. program to reflect evolving global challenges.
Vahedifard leads research addressing population disparities near Superfund sites
Tufts researchers develop a scoring system to prioritize cleanup at polluted sites for most-affected communities
Bringing cultivated meat inventions to the public sphere
Tufts researchers including Assistant Professor Andrew Stout and Natalie Rubio, EG22, are pioneering a way to make advances in cellular agriculture widely available to industry and researchers.
Tufts Engineers Without Borders continues to make a global impact
This summer students in Tufts Engineers Without Borders completed successful trips to Malawi and Ecuador.
$1.25M NSF grant backs resilient housing for Mississippi communities
Louis Berger Chair and Professor Farshid Vahedifard co-leads a project with Mississippi State University to advance resilient, affordable housing.
Tufts undergraduates engage in successful engineering design experience abroad
Alongside community members in Cartagena, Colombia, Tufts engineering undergraduate students devise global design solutions.
New AI tool reveals how drugs kill tuberculosis
Professor Bree Aldridge's approach uncovers how TB treatments can best work together at the cellular level to speed better cures.