COVID-19

As we near an end to 2020, Tufts Gordon Institute reflects on some of their top stories and milestones from this year.

Human factors engineering MS student Tom Ribeiro and colleagues won first place in two hackathons with their app to help users understand their risk of contracting COVID-19.

Professor John Durant and Research Assistant Professor Neelakshi Hudda discuss the improvement in air quality due to less vehicles on the road during the pandemic.

Five Tufts engineering students and alums worked with hundreds of fellow volunteers to develop a cost-effective ventilator that could be produced quickly.

Tufts will head a global program that aims to stop new viruses from becoming a widespread danger to humans.

Engineering faculty adopt new strategies to explore the design process through student-focused, hands-on projects—despite restraints imposed by COVID-19.

Computer science alum Shehryar Malik and fellow Tufts alum Greg Kulchyckyj, both A19, are developing a mobile app called TableTab that benefits restaurants and customers seeking limited contact while ordering food.

Compliance is key to successful campus opening, university leaders said at a town hall meeting for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering students and their families, which also highlighted Tufts protocols for safety and COVID-19 testing.

With summer internships in computer science gone due to COVID-19, the Tufts community stepped up and created a new way of learning skills—and helping others.