Students

Engineering student Zayyad Yunus wrote about student experiences in the first-year Simple Robotics course taught by Research Assistant Professor Ethan Danahy (pictured).

VASERA Male Contraceptives, a start-up run by Tufts engineering alumni (one of whom currently studies at Tufts Gordon Institute), won the top honor from an expert panel at the sixth annual Beantown Throwdown competition, hosted by the MIT Enterprise Forum

Manisha Raghavan, a master's student in bioengineering, reflects on her journey to Tufts as an international student in a new graduate student blog.

Eighteen teams presented their projects at this year's hackathon. The winners included a dancing robot, an app to find rental bicycles, and an app that lets you enjoy the same playlist that you heard at a coffee shop based on geotagging.

The Department of Computer Science has instituted a new Tufts CS Student Council to further communications between the students, faculty, and staff. The council first met as an official group with Department Chair Kathleen Fisher this fall.

The computer science department recognizes its newly constituted External Advisory Board (EAB).

A group of Tufts researchers studied the efficacy of disinfectants in preventing transmission of Ebola Virus Disease.

Research from Assistant Professor Xiaocheng Jiang's lab was featured in the Emerging Investigators issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry B.

Two undergraduate students won awards for research posters at the annual chemical engineering conference.