Kudos August 2023
Celebrating Tufts Faculty and Staff
Kudos is a monthly submissions-based roundup celebrating university faculty and staff—awards, honors, thought leadership, new arrivals, and more. Share your own great news or recognize a colleague at go.tufts.edu/kudos.
ASE Shared: Thomas Wlodek, Residence Life Coordinator, Residential Life & Learning
Advancement: Julia Sabatino, Administrative Coordinator, UA-Advancement Operations
Advancement: Jacqueline Donovan, Assoc Dir Alumni Relations, UA-Cummings Dev & Alumni Rel
Arts and Sciences: Cassandra Luca, Gallery Comm & Outreach Coord, Art Gallery
Arts and Sciences: Emma Taddeo, Center Project Admin Director, Biology - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Aviva Lucas-Demott, Sr Research Technician, Biology - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Amanda Pepper, Program Administrator, Center for the Humanities
Arts and Sciences: Liana Woskie, Assistant Professor, Community Health-A&S
Arts and Sciences: Andre Harper, Instructor, DEIJ Leadership
Arts and Sciences: Matthew Gudgeon, Assistant Professor, Economics - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Cheryl Doss, Professor, Economics - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Meredith Mclain, Instructor, Political Science - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Juan Escalona Torres, Lecturer, Romance Studies - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Patricia Kraeger, Instructor, Urban & Enviro Policy & Plan
Arts and Sciences: Maya Townsend, Instructor, Urban & Enviro Policy & Plan
Central Administration: Johnny Norfleet, Head Coach Sailing, Athletics
Central Administration: Karen Halloran, Administrative Coordinator, Occupational Health
Central Administration: Tiffany Bruschi, Sr Administrative Coordinator, Office of Sustainability
Central Administration: Sunil Kumar, President, President's Office
Central Administration: Pat Mcnally, Senior Strategic Sourcing Spec, Procurement
Central Administration: Ailine Tan, Sr Marketing Project Manager, Univ Communications and Marketing
Cummings: Jasmine Huynh, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Emily Schlake, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Karla Olguin Rangel, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Laura Kristine Donohue, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Evan Mingo, Project Coordinator, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Bradley Whelchel, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Heather Mccrary, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Ansley Sackett, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Sophie Karchemskiy, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: William Hillier, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Catherine Wadman, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Caroline Bondi, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Herdest Bethel, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Kindele Lenoir, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Ekele Ikpegbu, Assistant Teaching Professor, Comparative Pathobiology
Cummings: Lori Buckley, Exec Admin Asst to Dean or VP, Dean's Office - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Jeffrey Poole, Videographer/Photographer, Dean's Office - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Brenda Ruiz, Client Services Assistant, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Heather Fagan, Pharmacy Tech, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Jessica Marrero, Vet Tech II, ECC, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Katelyn Szekely, Veterinary Technician I, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Atalani Jackson, Intern, Infec Disease&Global Hlth-Vet
Dental: Molly Bickley, Project Coordinator, Academic Services - Dental
Dental: Sarah Davis, Insurance Coordinator, Clinic Billing Operations
Dental: Danielle Green, Insurance Coordinator, Clinic Billing Operations
Dental: Jenny Tran, Patient Financial Coordinator, Clinic Billing Operations
Dental: Melanie Morris, Assistant Professor, Comprehensive Care
Engineering: Angela Lai, Assistant Teaching Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering: Sara Goring, Postdoctoral Scholar, CABCS
Engineering: Sarah White, Administrative Coordinator, Computer Science
Fletcher: Donald Heflin, Director Murrow Center, Instruction - Fletcher School
Fletcher: Maxwell Zandi, Program Coordinator, Instruction - Fletcher School
Fletcher: Mofei Xu, Assoc Dir Career Svcs, Student Services-Fletcher
Friedman: Eileen Huang, Communications Specialist, Feinstein Center
Friedman: Kathryn Templeton, Exec Admin Asst to Dean or VP, Office of the Dean
HNRCA: Peter Spiers, Phlebotomist, Metabolic Research Unit-HNRC
Medical: Ava Feuer, Communications Coord, Ctr for Study of Drug Dev.
Medical: Devin Mott, Lab Instructor, DPT Boston Program
Medical: Jacqueline Butch, Lab Instructor, DPT Boston Program
Medical: Gianna Sabo, Lab Instructor, DPT Boston Program
Medical: Grayling Harrison Jr, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Kali Nordin, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Cara Smith, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Nicholas Mahaffey, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Jennifer Guerena, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Alexandra Macphie, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Lindsay Anderson, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Matthew Sahhar, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Mario Moncada, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Liana Knight-Loe, Lab Instructor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Shefali Christopher, Visiting Assoc Prof, DPT Seattle Program
Medical: Catherine Naylor, Administrative Coordinator, Educational Affairs - Medical
Medical: Jessica Platt, Clinical Asst Professor, Family Medicine
Medical: Seth Kadar, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Arelis Baez Rosario, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Erika Pierre, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Ashley Luo, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Anna Kim, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Briana Murphy, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Megan Uberti, Library Assistant, Health Sciences Library
Medical: Rui Guo, Assistant Professor, Microbiology-Basic Sci/Medical
Medical: Susan Lee, Administrative Coordinator, Physician Assistant Program
Medical: Ariana Balayan, Director Enroll & Marketing, Public Hlth and Community Med
Operations: Bartlett George, HVAC Mechanic, Facilities Medford - Trades A
Operations: Leah Smith Perez, Project Manager Capital Progs, Facilities Services - Constr.
Operations: Terrell Jacobs-Baston, Campus Security Officer I, Public Safety - Medford
Operations: Lenin Umanzor, Police Officer, Public Safety - Medford
Operations: Max Stephens, Police Officer, Public Safety - Medford
Operations: Stephen Bliss, Police Officer, Public Safety - Medford
Operations: Hannah O'leary, Police Officer, Public Safety - Medford
Provost: Cole Quinn, Lab Animal Caretaker, CMS
Provost: Deborah Esparza-St Louis, Sr Research Administrator, Office of the Vice Provost
Provost: Denise Bates, Dean University College, Provost's Office
SMFA at Tufts: Christopher Previte, Instructor, SMFA
Tufts Technology Services: Michael Hemment, Dir, Library Technology Svcs, Tufts Technology Services
Tufts Technology Services: Diane Sullivan, IT Acquisition Analyst, Tufts Technology Services
Tufts Technology Services: Brandon Men, IT Client Support Specialist, Tufts Technology Services
Tufts Technology Services: Qiyao Zhu, IT Project Manager, Tufts Technology Services
Tufts Technology Services: Galen Lipin, Systems Engineer, Tufts Technology Services
University College: Christina Dirico, Executive Assistant, Univ College Administration
Damian K.L. Archer, assistant dean for multicultural affairs and clinical assistant professor at the School of Medicine, is the 2023 recipient of the Massachusetts Medical Society Grant V. Rodkey Award.
Erica Belvit, assistant manager of athletics equipment, branding, and operations, finished second in the hammer for Jamaica at the Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Games in El Salvador.
Diana Chan, V24, and Jamie Wells, A20, V24, are among 18 students selected to receive the 2023–2024 AKC Dog Lovers Veterinary Outreach Scholarships.
Lenore Cowen, professor of computer science, was recently named a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology for her leadership in the interdisciplinary field.
Deborah Donahue-Keegan, lecturer in education at Tisch College, has been selected to join the Project- Based Cohort of the Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences in Higher Education Learning Fellowship for the 2023–24 academic year. This virtual learning community “is designed for higher education leaders who plan to launch or strengthen a specific initiative to bridge differences on college campuses in the 2023–2024 academic year.” Donahue-Keegan’s project will center on strengthening how the Social Emotional Learning for Equity and Civic Teaching (SEL-E-CT) Fellows program helps Tufts faculty/staff develop awareness, skills, and agency around bridging differences in and outside of the classroom across the university.
Alex Flynn, E26, has been named to USRowing PR3 Mixed Four at 2023 World Rowing Championships.
Jeff Foster, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, received an Amazon Research Award for his work in automated reasoning.
Alexis Garretson, Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, is the 2023 Raskin Scholar. The Raskin Scholarship is an annual award made by Earth Science Information Partners to a current graduate student in the Earth or computer sciences who has an interest in community evolution of Earth science data systems.
Eleanor Kharasch, V25, and Courtney Wallner, V25, have been named as 2023 recipients of Veterinary Student Research Fellowships, sponsored by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges.
Yu-Shan Lin, associate professor of chemistry, is one of this year’s distinguished speakers at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Presidential Symposium on Machine Learning, which will take place at the fall national meeting of the ACS in San Francisco in August. The symposium features leading researchers in the application of machine learning to chemistry. Lin’s speech topic is “Overcoming the Structural Challenges of Cyclic Peptide Design with Machine Learning.”
Charles Mace, associate professor of chemistry, is the elected chair of a Gordon Research Conference, which will take place in June 2024.
Hannah McCarthy, a third-year veterinary student at Cummings School, has been selected to receive the prestigious Steve Marton Veterinary Student Scholarship from PetSmart Charities. The $50,000 scholarship is awarded to three influential veterinary students on the forefront of providing accessible veterinary care in under-resourced communities. Recipients were selected from applications submitted by second- or third-year veterinary students nationwide.
Kasso Okoudjou, professor of mathematics, was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: New perspectives from applied and computational time- frequency analysis.”
Lia Rotti, A23, is one of two student-athletes chosen to represent the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year honor, as well as the Division III Commissioners Association Women’s Sport Athlete of the Year award.
Sarwat Salim, professor of ophthalmology at the School of Medicine and director of glaucoma services at Tufts Medical Center, has been elected to the American College of Surgeons Board of Regents.
Sam Sanker, director of development for the School of Arts and Sciences, was recently elected as president of the Planned Giving Group of New England (PGGNE) for the upcoming 2023–2024 year.
Brian Timko, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received a CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
Robert White, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was recently named a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. The prestigious society recognized his advancements in microelectromechanical systems.
Twenty-five Cummings School interns and 10 residents were recognized for their outstanding contributions to Cummings School’s hospitals and clinics at the school’s Intern and Graduation Ceremony. Read more about the recognitions and who received them on the Cummings School website.
The following School of Medicine postdocs and faculty received 2023 Natalie V. Zucker Research Center for Women Scholars Awards: Indrani Bhattacharjee, neonatologist, assistant professor, pediatrics; Christin Chung, postdoctoral scholar, microbiology; Emily Gall, resident physician, otolaryngology, Tufts Medical Center; Xuan Han, assistant professor, medicine; Xiao Hu, hematology/oncology fellow; Sihan Liu, postdoctoral scholar, immunology; Gat Rauner, research assistant professor, developmental, molecular and chemical biology; Cao Xuehong, research associate II, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center.
Tufts Athletics finished second in the final standings for Division III in this year’s Learfield Directors’ Cup competition, which is made up of more than 400 colleges and universities.
A Tufts team qualified for the AISC student steel bridge design contest’s national competition for the first time in 20 years.
Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha, the Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health at the School of Medicine, spoke with WBUR about the need for health care providers to listen closely to Black patients, who often feel dismissed. Amutah-Onukagha, along with Jasmin Destany Kamruddin, M26, Fernando Ona, clinical professor of public health and community medicine, Dorcas Mabiala, researcher at the School of Medicine, Anthony Schlaff, professor emeritus, shed light on teaching about structural racism in medical schools in the Milbank Quarterly.
Stephanie Borns-Weil, assistant clinical professor at Cummings School, spoke with CBS News Boston for the article “Should dogs be allowed in stores and restaurants?”
Helen Boucher, dean of the School of Medicine, testified before the U.S. Senate on antimicrobial resistance. Read more about her testimony on Tufts Now. Boucher also spoke to WCVB about childhood vaccines and which ones children should receive routinely.
Arik Burakovsky, assistant director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School, wrote “How Prigozhin’s Rebellion Exposes Putin’s Weakening Grip” for Time.
Francisco Carrillo-Salinas, research associate in immunology, Siddharth Parthasarathy, Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Marta Rodriguez-Garcia, assistant professor of immunology, were co-authors on a recent publication “Aging modifies endometrial dendritic cell function and unconventional double negative T cells in the human genital mucosa,” published in the journal Immunity & Ageing.
Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at The Fletcher School, wrote an article for The Conversation entitled “How will AI affect workers? Tech waves of the past show how unpredictable the path can be.” He also was quoted in the Week article entitled “Mark Zuckerberg vs. Elon Musk: a tale of the tech tape,” as well as in Washington Post articles: “Affirmative action ruling could be a blow to diversity in tech” and “Facebook to make its AI free to use, expanding access to powerful tech.” CNN quoted Chakravorti in an article entitled “With the rise of AI, social media platforms could face perfect storm of misinformation in 2024.” He also was quoted in a Marketplace article entitled “Artificial intelligence will impact workplaces and cost some workers their jobs.”
Mark Chase, lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, joined WBUR’s Radio Boston to share his thoughts on pedestrian safety, bike lanes, and traffic lanes in Boston.
Ying Chen, biomedical engineering research assistant professor, Edward Gordon, biomedical engineering research tech, Sara Rudolph, Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering, Brooke Longo, Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering, David Kaplan, Stern Family Endowed Professor of Engineering, and other researchers have found potential inflammatory effects of plastic particles using human intestinal organoids—small bundles of tissue made from a mix of human cells obtained from biopsies that mimic the complexity of an actual intestinal environment. The research was published in the journal Nanomedicine. Read more about the research on Tufts Now.
Marie-Claire Beaulieu, associate professor of classical studies, authored an article in The Conversation entitled “What Greek mythology teaches us about women’s resistance and rebellion.”
Alice Connors-Kellgren, assistant professor of psychiatry, spoke with WCVB about the impact of social media on adult mental health.
Laura Corlin, assistant professor of public health and community medicine, is among experts quoted in the New York Times article about health impacts from the Canadian wildfire smoke that recently blanketed large parts of the eastern United States.
Alastair Cribb, dean of Cummings School, wrote about Dentistry Week and creating a partnership solution in a Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association article. He also authored a second article in the journal about clinical research at Cummings School.
Dan Drezner, professor of international politics at The Fletcher School, is quoted in an Economist article (“The meticulous, ruthless preparations for a second Trump term”) and wrote an op-ed for Politico (“Why Kissinger Went to China—Again”).
Volodymyr Dubovyk, visiting professor at The Fletcher School, is quoted in a Vox article entitled “How bad will things get now that Russia has quit its grain deal with Ukraine?”
Rose Facchini, romance studies lecturer, published a translation of Diego Lama’s story “Cockroach- Eater” in ergot.
James Fisher, program administrator at Tisch College, recently authored a piece on the London School of Economics United States Politics and Policy blog about the problem of fake news and how a digital media literacy campaign could help counter it nationally. Fisher also authored a piece for the Wilson Center’s Africa Up Close blog about using music as a tool for peace building in Senegal ahead of the 2024 elections.
Brent Forester, Dr. Frances S. Arkin Chair of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, is quoted in a New York Times article, about how to talk to someone with Alzheimer’s.
Marta Gaglia, adjunct associate professor in the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and collaborators authored “Cut site preference allows influenza A virus PA-X to discriminate between host and viral mRNAs,” which was published in the journal Nature Microbiology.
Kelly Sims Gallagher, dean ad interim and professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School, attended the U.S.-China Climate Finance Track II Dialogue hosted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, Tsinghua University’s Institute of Energy, Environmental, and Economy, and the Beijing Green Finance Association. She also attended the second convening on China’s Cooperation with Southeast Asia to Support More Ambitious Clean Energy Transition by 2030 hosted by the Asia Society and Energy Foundation China.
Nassir Ghaemi, professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, spoke to the Washington Post about what triggers claustrophobia and how to overcome it.
Tarun Gopalakrishnan, Seth Owusu-Mante, and Bethany Tietjen, research fellows at The Fletcher School and Climate Policy Lab, discuss ways to address America’s housing crisis and climate change at the same time in an article in the The Conversation.
Aarti Grover, assistant professor and medical director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at Tufts Medical Center, talks with WCVB about sleep apnea.
Satgin Hamrah, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, co-authored and edited the book Contextualizing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia: Identity, Competition and Conflict. Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History,, Frank Sobchak, professor of the practice at the Gordon Institute, and Ibrahim Warde, adjunct professor of international relations at The Fletcher School, also contributed to the book.
Linden Hu, Paul and Elaine Chervinsky Professor in Immunology and vice dean for research at the School of Medicine, discusses the implications of the increasing spread of ticks and the disease-causing bacteria that they carry on PBS News. Hu is also quoted in an Inverse article about advances in Lyme disease vaccines and research, including his work in developing a new diagnostic test to help determine when individuals have cleared a Lyme infection. Hu’s research, which aims to better understand Post- Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS), is among five projects that will be awarded funding by the National Institutes of Health.
James Intriligator, professor of the practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering, authored an article in The Conversation entitled “Gliding, not searching: Here’s how to reset your view of ChatGPT to steer it to better results.”
Nisha Iyer, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was featured in a Curiously Guided podcast episode reflecting on her Tufts course in which she uses popular sci-fi movies to explore foundational science and challenges and ethics in bioengineering.
Michael Klein, William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at The Fletcher School, is quoted in the Boston Globe article “Inflation Isn’t Dead Yet.” Klein also wrote an article for Econofact entitled “Banks, Credit Crunches, and the Economy.”
Maxim Krupskiy, visiting scholar in the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School, authored an article for The Conversation entitled “Impunity over Wagner mutiny signals further degradation of rule of law in Russia.”
Vivek Kumar, assistant professor of medicine, discusses how he uses movement to study behavior in animal models of Down syndrome and autism in a Nature News article.
Jonathan Lamontagne, assistant professor of engineering, Shengwei Peng, EG23, and researchers from Penn State University authored “Effects of global climate mitigation on regional air quality and health” in the journal Nature Sustainability. The research was written about in a recent News Medical article.
Sung-Yoon Lee, assistant professor at The Fletcher School, had his book published in June in the U.K. by Pan Macmillan. Lee also joined ABC Australia to discuss the book, which is titled The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea. The book will be published in the U.S. in September by PublicAffairs.
Frank Lehman, associate professor of music, wrote a New York Times op-ed entitled “How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders.”
Cheryl London, associate dean for research and graduate education at Cummings School, appears in a recent episode of PBS’ Human Footprint, a science documentary series, in which she discusses how clinical trials could bring hope to other dogs and children with osteosarcoma.
Pavel Luzin, visiting scholar at The Fletcher School, is quoted in two Newsweek articles: “Videos Show Russian Boobytraps Left in Trees, Toys, Trenches” and “‘Storm-Z’ Convict Units Hinder Russian Offensive in Kupiansk Direction: ISW.”
Sola Mahfouz, staff researcher in the quantum computing group, appeared on Morning Joe to discuss her book Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for an Education. Read more about Mahfouz’s story on Tufts Now.
Daniel Maxwell, the Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security at the Friedman School and research director at the Feinstein International Center, and colleagues from Tufts and other institutions authored “Using the household hunger scale to improve analysis and classification of severe food insecurity in famine-risk conditions: Evidence from three countries,” which was published in the journal Food Policy.
Chris Miller, associate professor of international history at The Fletcher School, is quoted in a New York Times article entitled “‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China.” Miller is the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, which was featured in a Tufts Now article.
Dariush Mozaffarian, dean emeritus of the Friedman School and distinguished professor, and Lu Wang, postdoctoral scholar, authored a new study about prescription produce programs, which was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Read more about the research on Tufts Now. Mozaffarian and Wang also authored a study on school lunch nutrition, which was published in ScienceDirect. Read more about that research on Tufts Now.
David Munson, M09, adjunct instructor at the School of Medicine, and Shantiera Taylor, M24, authored the first of a two-part review about health care of people experiencing homelessness, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine Evidence. Part two is slated to come later in August.
Maureen Murray, Tufts Wildlife Clinic director, authored a study entitled “Active metabolite of the neurotoxic rodenticide bromethalin along with anticoagulant rodenticides detected in birds of prey in the northeastern United States” in the journal Environmental Pollution. Read more about her research on Tufts Now.
Zdenka Myslikova and Nate Dolton-Thornton, researchers at The Fletcher School, authored an article in The Conversation entitled “‘Global China’ is a big part of Latin America’s renewable energy boom, but homegrown industries and ‘frugal innovation’ are key.”
Susan Napier, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric and Japanese, was interviewed for an NPR “All Things Considered” segment and was quoted in a recent New York Times article.
Chidi Odinkalu, professor of the practice in international human rights law, is quoted in a Financial Times article entitled “Boldness welcomed as step towards ‘fiscal sanity’ in Nigeria.”
Tasha Oren, associate professor and director of the Film and Media Studies Program, recently had her book, Food TV, published. Read more about the book on Tufts Now.
Karen Panetta, dean of graduate education, is quoted in a recent ABC News article, entitled “Mitigating climate change and preserving biodiversity: Several ways AI can be used to help the environment.”
Deeb Salem, professor of medicine, was quoted in a Boston Globe article suggesting that foreign-trained providers could help in the face of the doctor and nurse shortages in the United States.
Allen Shaughnessy, professor of family medicine at the School of Medicine, authored an article in The Conversation entitled “Strep throat can easily be confused with throat infections caused by viruses—here are a few ways to know the difference.”
Robert Smith, professor of medicine and co-director of the Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative, explains the factors behind the increasing risk of tick-borne diseases in the United States in a CNN article.
Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice in Public Diplomacy at The Fletcher School, wrote four op-eds for The Hill: “See the world, know the world: The case for study abroad,” “The summer slog: What’s next for the war in Ukraine?,” “The environmental impacts of war,” and “Climate change’s next victim: Sports.” Sonenshine was also appointed to the Export Import Bank of the United States 2023–24 Council on Advancing Women in Business.
Kinsey Spears and Diana Park, international relations Ph.D. students, wrote an article entitled “Women, Peace, and Cybersecurity” for the Newlines Institute.
Kenson Truong, associate director of graduate programs at SMFA, is curating an exhibition, QT Embodied, which features many SMFA artists, at the Boston Sculptors Gallery in SOWA.
Erika Werner, chair of obstetrics and gynecology, answers questions about the first-ever FDA-approved over-the-counter birth control pill in a recent Boston Globe article.
Researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the University of Nottingham Rights Lab published the study entitled “Forced labour risk is pervasive in the U.S. land- based food supply” in the journal Nature Food. Read more about the research on Tufts Now.
Researchers at the HNRCA published the study “The human milk component myo-inositol promotes neuronal connectivity” in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Thomas Biederer, senior scientist on the Neuroscience and Aging Team at the HNRCA, is the senior author on the study. Read more about the research on Tufts Now.
Researchers from the School of Medicine and the Data Intensive Studies Center at Tufts (as well as Tufts Medical Center and Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute) published their study “Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication” in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Researchers from the School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center authored the study “A novel aB-crystallin R123W variant drives hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by promoting maladaptive calcium- dependent signal transduction” in the journal Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.
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