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Optimizing a “pillar” of modern technology: REAP Lab streamlines nanotechnology development
Researchers in the Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Lab demonstrated a more simple, cost-effective way to create nanopillars—tiny structures that can control light
Tufts researchers say they created new sugar that tastes like real thing
CBS News covers research led by Associate Professor Nik Nair that developed a way to make a healthier sugar substitute.
Tufts to launch innovation hub for lab-grown foods
Tufts Center for Cellular Agriculture is featured in a recent WBUR article that discusses its launch of a lab-grown food innovation hub.
New tool helps balance data privacy and utility
An SOE team is using AI to quantify the accuracy of conclusions from privacy-enhanced data in the social and behavioral sciences.
Showing neurotypicals how autistic communication works
Researchers develop an AI tool to better comprehend how autistic individuals communicate and perceive the world through language.
Northeast Microelectronics Coalition award supports purchase of new equipment in Tufts Epitaxial Core Facility
The new high-resolution X-ray diffraction system promises to accelerate the pace of microelectronics research and development at Tufts and across the northeast.
Three Tufts professors are named top researchers in the world
Research papers by faculty including Research Assistant Professor Chunmei Li of the Department of Biomedical Engineering are among the most cited globally in the preceding decade.
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).