Protecting Public Safety by Improving Post-Wildfire Remediation and Rebuilding Assistant Professor Lauryn Spearing received an NSF grant to study barriers to rebuilding and remediating homes after wildfires. Research , Energy, water, and environment , Research news , Engineers , Faculty , Women engineers
What’s Going on Inside You? These Inventions Keep Track From health-monitoring dental floss to a pill that samples your microbiome, Sameer Sonkusale’s devices transform medical diagnosis and treatment. Research , Human health and bioengineering , Research news , Tufts Now , Engineers , Faculty
Tufts Is in the National Academy of Inventors 2025 Top 100 for Faculty Patents David Kaplan, Mai Vu, and many more SOE faculty were awarded patents last year, from hydrophobic coatings to ways to optimize cellular networks. Research news , Tufts Now , Faculty , Women engineers
New AI Models Could Slash Energy Use While Dramatically Improving Performance Neuro-symbolic AI combines neural network pattern recognition and generation with higher level symbolic reasoning. Research , Research news , Engineers
Mohanty Receives NSF CAREER Award The prestigious grant award supports Assistant Professor Aseema Mohanty’s work in nanophotonics. Research , Human health and bioengineering , Human-technology interface , Research news , Engineers , Faculty , Women engineers , Campus news
Making AI a Force for Good A gift to the Tufts Institute for Artificial Intelligence funds university-wide discovery. Research , Research news , Engineers , Faculty , Campus news
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 Research , Research news , Faculty , Women engineers
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. Research news , Engineers , Faculty
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. Research news , Engineers , Campus news