School of Engineering in the Media

Vice Provost for Research Bernard Arulanandam and Engineering’s David Kaplan are quoted from a Tufts Now news story announcing Tufts’ launch of the Innovation Hub for Food and Materials, a research and development center to help support new food technologies, biomaterials, and other innovative products.

Vice Provost for Research Bernard Arulanandam and Engineering’s David Kaplan are quoted from a Tufts Now news story announcing Tufts’ launch of the Innovation Hub for Food and Materials, a research and development center to help support new food technologies, biomaterials, and other innovations.

Vice Provost for Research Bernard Arulanandam and Engineering’s David Kaplan are quoted from a Tufts Now news story announcing Tufts’ launch of the Innovation Hub for Food and Materials, a research and development center to help support new food technologies, biomaterials, and other innovative products.

Engineering’s Farshid Vahedifard discusses the impact of persistent drought conditions in New England.

Engineering’s Valencia Koomson is quoted from a Tufts Now news story about the new pulse oximeter system she and her colleagues developed that automatically reads and adjusts to skin tone for more accurate measurements of blood oxygen, pulse, and respiration.

Engineering’s Sameer Sonkusale is quoted about his lab’s new research creating tiny tattoo-like sensors for plants that farmers could use to monitor plant health and manage crop conditions. (His segment begins at 19:50.)

Tufts is noted among universities with initiatives that enable students from families making less than $150,000 a year to attend tuition-free.

Research Professor and Louis Berger Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus Steve Chapra is quoted at length about factors contributing to the algae infestation in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. 2017 collaborative research led by Chapra examining the impact of climate change on algae blooms in U.S. freshwaters is also linked.

Engineering's Fiorenzo Omenetto, director of the Silklab, is quoted about his lab’s collaborative new research to develop a featherlight, silk-based sticker for newborns in incubators that reads four critical health signals at once by changing color.

In this conversation, Engineering Distinguished Professor Karen Panetta discusses her body of research and career, as well as the future of AI and STEM education.

Engineering’s Farshid Vahedifard is quoted from an April 2023 New Scientist article about the threat that large, semiaquatic rodents called nutria pose to levees in California.

Engineering Distinguished Professor Karen Panetta explains how AI and robotics could make space mining a reality in the not so distant future.