Filtering clean drinking water
In the Summer Scholars program, junior Grace Aro made membranes and tested their ability to filter contaminants out of water.
Research news
New cognitive science center launches
The Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences is a partnership between Tufts School of Engineering and the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center.
Communicating health risks with visualizations
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.
Generating human neural stem cells
Process could pave way for engineering innervated tissues such as skin, cornea.
Nair wins NIH New Innovator Award
Nikhil Nair seeks new treatment for potentially fatal, rarely-studied congenital "orphan diseases" caused by improper food metabolism.
Creative spaces to learn
The Center for Engineering Education and Outreach studies the use of makerspaces as learning environments.
"Smart" thread collects data through sutures
Tufts engineers have developed threads that, when sutured into tissue, collect and wirelessly transmit diagnostic data.