Saving lives by making water safe to drink
Tiampo Family Assistant Professor Amy Pickering is leading a test to see if a simple solution to bringing clean water to low-resource communities improves health outcomes.
Research news
Tufts team wins a grand prize in NSF Idea Machine Competition
Professor Matthias Scheutz and PhD candidate Vasanth Sarathy's proposal to work with machines to solve mankind’s seemingly intractable problems is the focus of a winning entry in the NSF Idea Machine Competition.
Quantum dot assembly
Researchers, including faculty at REAP Labs, use a recently developed growth technique to synthesize germanium quantum dots on InAlAs(111)A.
Computer science students honored
Four Tufts University computer science majors were recognized for research excellence by the Computing Research Association (CRA).
Oudin receives early career investigator award
Assistant Professor Madeleine Oudin received a grant award from the METAvivor Metastatic Breast Cancer Foundation.
Georgakoudi named SPIE Fellow
Professor Irene Georgakoudi has been elected Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Tufts engineers recognized for research excellence
Senior Jordan Lueck, Associate Professor Jason Rife, and collaborators received a best of conference award for their paper on sensor-aided simulation.
Researchers mold silk into products
Using methods common to plastics manufacturing, properties of silk-based devices can be tuned for strength, flexibility, molecular function and biodegradability.
Expanding big data innovation and discovery
Tufts has been awarded an NSF grant to kickstart T-TRIPODS Institute, a university initiative focused on broadening data science methods and how they apply to diverse fields.