School of Engineering in the Media

Tufts will launch a new innovation hub for lab-grown foods with a $2.1M state grant. TUCCA’s Meera Zassenhaus is quoted about the center’s partnership with the Good Food Institute to make cell lines and growth media, acquired from a now-defunct cultivated meat company, publicly available for academic and industry research.

Engineering’s Nik Nair is quoted from a Tufts Now news story about collaborative research to develop a way to biosynthetically produce a rare sugar called tagatose, which might provide the sweetness and natural taste of table sugar without its potential harms.

Engineering’s Nik Nair is quoted about collaborative research developing a way to biosynthetically produce a rare sugar called tagatose, which might provide the sweetness and natural taste of table sugar without its potential harms.

Engineering’s Nik Nair is quoted about collaborative research to develop a way to biosynthetically produce a rare sugar called tagatose, which might provide the sweetness and natural taste of table sugar without its potential harms.

The Tufts men’s soccer team is the 2025 NCAA Division III national champion. (

Matthias Scheutz comments on Open AI’s new GPT-5.1 chatbot, which has new personalities and customization tools.

Engineering’s Farshid Vahedifard discusses the severe drought, and resulting water crisis, impacting Iran warning that "scarcity of water can definitely cause tensions and issues.”

Elaine Chen, director of the Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts, is quoted in this article about the benefits and risks of starting a side job, which she says is usually “something that the person is really passionate about.”

Engineering’s Farshid Vahedifard comments on severe drought, and resulting water crisis, impacting Iran noting that “Ultimately, equitable water management is not just about fairness. It’s fundamental to Iran’s environmental stability and social cohesion.”

Engineering Distinguished Professor David Kaplan is coauthor of a new paper mapping strategies for healthier, greener, and commercially viable alternative protein sources from plants, animals, insects, fungi, and more, noting that “To succeed, we need research and cooperation across science, industry, and regulators to improve quality, scale production, and earn consumer trust.”

In this Marketplace segment examining the challenges of export controls related to AI and algorithms, Engineering Professor in Cybersecurity and Policy Susan Landau explains the U.S. government's past attempts to restrict the export of encryption technologies.

Tufts has announced that beginning fall of 2026 students from families making less than $150,000 a year can attend Tufts tuition-free. President Sunil Kumar says the Tufts Tuition Pact “is sending a clear message that Tufts is committed to meeting the full need of all its students.” AS&E Dean of Admissions & Enrollment Management JT Duck is also quoted.