Kudos August 2024
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.
AS&E Shared: Sage Garcia, Staff Clinician, Counseling Center
AS&E Shared: Elizabeth Fagan, Prevention & Response Speciali, Health Services
AS&E Shared: Samantha Fuller, Residence Life Coordinator, Residential Life & Learning
AS&E Shared: Aurora Llamas, Residence Life Coordinator, Residential Life & Learning
AS&E Shared: Andrea Pilavis, Student Services Rep, Student Services Center - A&S
AS&E Shared: Andrea Serna, Asst Librarian Res & Instruct, Tisch Library
Advancement: Amy Holland Crafton, Assoc Dir Development, UA - SMFA
Advancement: Anne Risgin, Administrative Assistant, UA-Engineering Development
Arts and Sciences: Jeremy Eichler, Assistant Professor, A&S Faculty Affairs
Arts and Sciences: Weichen Huang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Arista Jhanjee, Research Coordinator, Community Health-A&S
Arts and Sciences: Samantha Mei, Teacher Assistant, EP Child Study & Human Dev
Arts and Sciences: Jing Li, Assistant Professor, Economics - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Alexandra Sterling, Program Administrator, Eliot Pearson
Arts and Sciences: Emily Strasser, Professor of the Practice, English - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Julie Ringer, Assoc Director Administration, Office Dean Arts & Sciences
Arts and Sciences: Pinde Fu, Instructor, Urban & Enviro Policy & Plan
Central Administration: Jazlyn Duverglas, Assistant Manager Club Sports, Athletics
Central Administration: Noah Race, Asst Mgr Athletic Ops & Events, Athletics
Central Administration: Joseph Costa, Assoc Post Award Fin Spec, Post Award Research Admin
Central Administration: Andrea Vong-Horm, Treasury Analyst, Treasury Operations
Central Administration: Catherine Treesh, Assoc Dir Strategy & Analysis, University Strategy & Pgrm Dev
Cummings: Savannah Pees, Intern, Amb Med & Theriogenology
Cummings: Brooklynne Mitchell-Arno, Staff Assistant, Animal Resources
Cummings: Erica Evans, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Andrea Messina, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Milan Piva, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Caroline Titel, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Logan Kursh, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Mark Bilger, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Andrew Shulman, Intern, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Samantha Allan, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Sydney Swartz, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Ana Coyac Zacamo, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Paola Mayorga, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Joon Kuan Matthew Lim, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Wan-Ching Cheng, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Natalie Arruda Bergamaschi, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Mariana Mascarenhas, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Jacey Anderson, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Julie Granger, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Melissa Xia, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Allison Mosichuk, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Maya Wallick, Resident, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Prisca Noble, Assistant Teaching Professor, Comparative Pathobiology
Cummings: Carly Demotts, Lab Technician, Comparative Pathobiology
Cummings: Lina Crespo Bilhalva, Resident, Comparative Pathobiology
Cummings: Rachel Whitman, Resident, Comparative Pathobiology
Cummings: Lilly Travers, Veterinary Assistant, Department of Research
Cummings: Sara Umbrell, Client Services Assistant, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Daniel Giannasca, Veterinary Technician I, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Jillian Cameron, Veterinary Technician I, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Alissa Mendes-Cashman, Administrative Coordinator, Professional Ed-Cummings-Vet
Dental: Silvia Alfaro, Program Administrator, Administration - Dental
Dental: Dmitrii Iakushev, Materials Asst, Clinic Materials-Dental
Dental: Jared Hornsby, Materials Asst, Clinic Materials-Dental
Dental: Karina Belussi Asenjo, Assistant Professor, Comprehensive Care
Dental: Mansha Kapur, Research Affairs Specialist, Research Administration Dental
Dental: Aiceya Blackwell, Patient Financial Coordinator, Revenue Cycle Operations
Dental: Marckenzy Noel, Patient Financial Coordinator, Revenue Cycle Operations
Engineering: Nathan Richbourg, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering: Shelly Peyton, Professor & Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering: Hannah Chang, Research Tech, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering: Lauryn Spearing, Assistant Professor, Civil & Envir Engineering
Engineering: Markus Nemitz, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Engineering: Rachel Hoskins, Research Administrator II, School of Engineering
Fletcher: Adam Kamradt-Scott, Associate Professor, Instruction - Fletcher School
Friedman: Danisha Charles, Project Manager, Dariush Mozaffarian Research
Friedman: Caroline Owens, Research Assistant Professor, Dariush Mozaffarian Research
Friedman: Colleen Hanley, Project Manager, New Entry Sustainable Farming
HNRCA: Cyrus Gauthier, Lab Animal Technician, Comparative Biology Unit-HNRC
HNRCA: Jessica Hardwick, Sr Research Coordinator, Metabolic Research Unit-HNRC
HNRCA: Magdalena Pytel, Staff Nurse, Metabolic Research Unit-HNRC
HNRCA: Filippo Artoni, Postdoctoral Scholar, Vitamin K Lab-HNRC
Medical: Robin Bowman, Executive Assistant, Administration - Medical
Medical: Heather Hodges, Program Coordinator, DPT Boston Program
Medical: William Behrns, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Andy Vo, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Sarah Karl, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Joseph Soojian, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Swati Kundargi, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Ijeoma Nwankpa, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Megan Crane, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Brenda Sacino, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Janine Hefferin, Research Administrator II, Dev, Mol & Chem Bio/Medical
Medical: Nicholas Furtado, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Allison Blais, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Fernando Dominguez, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Kevin Ogbonna, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Jacob Liebovitz, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Lucien Tessier, PREP Scholar, GSBS Students
Medical: Kathryn Martino, Program Coordinator, Graduate Student Services
Medical: Emily Vu, Research Tech, Microbiology-Basic Sci/Medical
Medical: Yihan Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Neuroscience-BasicSci/Medical
Medical: Rebekah Hyeyoon Kim, Sr Research Technician, Neuroscience-BasicSci/Medical
Operations: Luke Pomroy, Grounds Keeper, Facilities Services - Medford
Operations: Anthony Jennings-Hall, Utility Worker 1, Facilities Services - Medford
Provost: Jennifer Kilpatrick, CMS Services Manager, CMS
Provost: Dorian Abercrombie, Lab Animal Caretaker, CMS
Provost: Nathan Magill, Lab Animal Caretaker, CMS
Provost: Philip Der, Lab Animal Caretaker, CMS
Provost: Alannah Ray, Administrative Coordinator, Institutional Research
Provost: Janna Ferguson, Asst Vice Provost Educ Impact, Provost's Office
Provost: Anna Garson, Director International Center, Provost's Office
Provost: Colleen Ryan, Vice Provost Faculty, Provost's Office
University College: Vivek Kumar, Instructor, UC Programmatic Payroll
The award winners and honorable mentions for the 2024 Teaching with Technology and Excellence in Online Teaching are: Karin Arsenault, Tim Brunker, Ethan Danahy, Chris Hall, Diane McKay, Neeti Pathare, Sai Pearman, Marta Rosso-O’Laughlin, Rebecca Shakespeare, Julie Schaffner, Amy Schlessman, Jane Seminara, Sumeeta Srinivasan, and Ben Stern. Sponsored by Tufts Technology Services, the Teaching with Technology Awards and Excellence in Online Teaching Awards are presented each year to celebrate Tufts educators who integrate technology to elevate the learning experience and create transformative and intellectually stimulating online learning environments.
Claudia Mattos Avolese, Tanya Crane, Riccardo Giacconi, Ihnmi Jon, Lauren O’Connor Korb, Jenn Schmidt, and Mary Ellen Strom, all professors of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, were awarded SMFA Faculty Research and Travel Fellowships.
Denise Bates, dean of University College and professor of history in the School of Arts and Sciences, was named to the American Indian Policy Institute advisory board as part of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
Hanan Bloomer, a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and at the School of Medicine, was awarded an NIH F30 fellowship. His fellowship supports his work on triple-negative breast cancer and is entitled “Dissecting the Role of TRPV1 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Innervation.”
Sarah Booth, director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts and senior scientist, was named president of the American Society for Nutrition for the 2024–2025 year.
Peter Brodeur, professor of medical education emeritus, was awarded a Dean’s Medal by Tufts University School of Medicine.
The following people are the 2024 recipients of the Natalie V. Zucker Research Center for Women Scholars Award: Carolyn Chlebek, postdoctoral research fellow at Maine Medical Center; Qiwen Dong, research associate in microbiology; Rachel Ende, postdoctoral scholar; Anna-Lisa Lawrence, postdoctoral scholar in microbiology; and Zhu (Jenny) Cui, clinical associate, all at the School of Medicine. The award was established through the generosity of Natalie Zucker to further the research careers of junior women scientists conducting basic and clinical biomedical research at Tufts or the major Tufts-affiliated hospitals. Awards are made to support specific research projects and to fund travel and training opportunities.
Kevin Clark, assistant professor of chemistry, received a Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Awardees exemplify the foundation’s mission of supporting promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. Awardees were selected from a pool of approximately 300 applicants after a three-part review led by a panel of scientific experts. Read more about Clark on Tufts Now.
Alex Flynn, E26, competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics as part of the U.S. Paralympic rowing team. Flynn was part of the PR3 mixed four with coxswain. Read more on Tufts Now.
Jason Hall, professor and Benjamin Andrews Chair of Surgery at the School of Medicine, was elected as a fellow of the prestigious American Surgical Association.
Katherine Hollander and Joshua Nguyen, both lecturers in the English department, received Peter Taylor Fellowships this summer at the Kenyon Review Adult Writers Workshops.
Catie Kean, A25, biology major, was selected as an Astronaut Scholar for 2024–25. This year, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation awarded more than 60 scholarships valued up to $15,000 to each selected scholar. Scholarship programming includes an Astronaut Scholar conference, mentorship, professional development, networking, and recognition. Kean has been conducting research since her sophomore year in the Mirkin Lab using yeast as a model organism to elucidate how length differences are generated in the repetitive DNA sequence RS3. These variations have far-reaching implications for human biology, physically and behaviorally.
Kareem Khubchandani, associate professor of theatre, dance, and performance studies, had his book Decolonize Drag named as a finalist for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Book Award.
Patti Klos, senior director of dining services, received the National Association of College & University Food Services’ highest honor, the Theodore W. Minah Distinguished Service Award. Klos’s career has spanned 35 years at Tufts, and she has also served as the NACUFS president since 2017.
Yi-Pin Lin, associate professor of infectious disease and global health at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, was awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to study birds carrying Lyme disease. The research will aid in the prevention of the disease’s spread from animals to humans.
Cathy Lu, professor of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, was chosen as the 2023–24 Resident Artist for Harvard Ceramics. Lu’s ceramic works were on view at Gallery 224.
Anna Miller, senior multimedia producer in University Communications and Marketing, received a CASE Circle of Excellence Bronze Award in the category of Video-Student Audience (Long) for the “Step Behind the Scenes with BlackOut” video, which features Tufts’ BlackOut Step Team.
Eric Miller, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was honored as an International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance Fellow. AIIA fellows are committed to promoting the widespread application of artificial intelligence across diverse sectors.
Jessica Saab, production artist in University Communications and Marketing, had her work accepted into the juried show Too Hot! at the Kingston Gallery in Boston. The show runs through August 11.
Sima Samar, fellow at The Fletcher School, had her memoir, titled Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights, longlisted for the 2024 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing. Read more about Samar’s story on Tufts Now.
Igor Sokolov, professor of mechanical engineering at the School of Engineering, and Katina Robinson, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine, were awarded a Women’s Health Innovation Grant, sponsored by the Massachusetts Life Science Center’s Women’s Health Innovation program. Their research is entitled “Novel imaging modality and image analysis to decrease the number of unnecessary colposcopies during screening for cervical cancer.”
Paul Sweeney, athletics communications specialist, was named one of three district winners in the 2023–24 College Sports Communicators Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest. The submitted piece that Sweeney received recognition for was from last April about then senior Katrina Yuzefpolsky. Read more about Yuzefpolsky on Tufts Now.
Katherine Yang, V25, was one of three veterinary students selected nationwide to present at this year’s Association for Clinical and Translational Science conference. She presented her research on canine osteosarcoma from her project as part of Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine’s Student Summer Research Program.
Tufts Athletics was named as the 2024 Division III Team IMPACT Fellowship Campus of the Year and came in fourth place in the 2023–2024 Learfield Directors’ Cup standings. Read more about the Learfield Directors’ Cup standings on Tufts Now.
The Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts has been awarded a 10-year, $1 million sustaining grant from Cummings Foundation’s $30 Million Grant Program. The grant will boost entrepreneurial education programming at the DEC. The $30 Million Grant Program awards $30 million to 150 nonprofits every year. Read more about this funding on Tufts Now.
The Tufts men’s lacrosse coaches won the “Coaching Staff of the Year” award, presented by the Intercollegiate Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Association.
The Tufts men’s rowing coaching staff earned the Division III Staff of the Year award from the Intercollegiate Rowing Coaches Association.
The Office of Alumni Engagement received CASE’s Circle of Excellence Bronze Award in the Alumni Relations Initiatives category for its Alumni Professional Development Fund.
The School of Medicine recently honored faculty members who have demonstrated excellence, innovation, and support for the M.D. Class of 2024. The full list of 2024 awards and winners is available on the School of Medicine’s website.
Tufts University Art Galleries received a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. This grant will support TUAG’s upcoming two years of programming, which take a curatorial approach of artistic research with, of, and for artists, students, and the Greater Boston community. Read more about the grant on the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University website.
Tufts Dining received a silver award from the National Association of College and University Food Services in the Residential Special Event of the Year for the Lunar New Year category for their dinner at the Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center on February 15, 2024.
University Advancement received a CASE Circle of Excellence Gold Award in the category of Flash/Giving Day Campaigns for the 2023 Tufts Giving Tuesday campaign. Read more about Tufts’ Giving Tuesday on Tufts Now.
Abe Bayer, doctoral student in the immunology program at the School of Medicine, and Pilar Alcaide, Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor at the School of Medicine, are first author and senior author, respectively, on a newly published paper entitled “Cytotoxic T cells drive doxorubicin-induced cardiac fibrosis and systolic dysfunction.” The study was published in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research and features additional contributions from researchers at the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Read more about this research on Tufts Now.
Viking Bohman, doctoral candidate at The Fletcher School, co-authored a Politico opinion piece entitled “Final blow to Chinese ‘neutrality’ on Ukraine war.”
Alvin Camba, faculty affiliate at The Fletcher School, authored the East Asia Forum article “The Luzon Economic Corridor as the United States’ Southeast Asian litmus test.”
Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at The Fletcher School, authored a Foreign Policy article and was quoted in New York Times, India Today, Indian Express, and The Hill articles.
Benjamin Chrisinger, assistant professor of community health, authored an article for The Conversation entitled “Only 1.8% of U.S. doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased.”
Jenna Clark, A21, doctoral student at The Fletcher School, Erin Coughlan de Perez, research director and Dignitas Professor at the Climate Policy Lab, and Bethany Tietjen, predoctoral research fellow at the Climate Policy Lab and Ph.D. student, authored “Progress and gaps in U.S. Adaptation policy at the local level” in the journal Global Environmental Change.
Alastair Cribb, dean and Henry and Lois Foster Professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, authored a spotlight article about the school’s infectious disease research in the American Journal of Veterinary Research. Cribb also authored a spotlight article for the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association entitled “Rethinking and re-envisioning a DVM curriculum.”
Maakwe Cumanzala, doctoral student at The Fletcher School, authored the Good Authority article “In Africa, gender equality in principle faces barriers in practice.”
Tom Dannenbaum, associate professor of international law at The Fletcher School, spoke to the Washington Post about what comes next in the International Criminal Court case over the Israel-Hamas war.
Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, was interviewed for an Al Jazeera segment entitled “What will bring an end to the conflict in Sudan?” and an E-International Relations article to discuss his scholarship on famine and its relevance to the crisis in Sudan. de Waal also authored the Foreign Affairs article “Sudan’s Manmade Famine” and is quoted in the New York Times article “At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan, Experts Warn.”
Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at The Fletcher School, authored the EconoFact article “The Rise of Economic Sanctions in U.S. Foreign Policy,” the Politico opinion piece “The Strange Future After a Second Trump Term,” and was interviewed for the EconoFact podcast episode “Economic Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool.” Read more about the EconoFact podcast episode on Tufts Now.
Ryan Evans, principal service designer in the TTS Design Practice, and Jessica Sears, director of academic planning and accreditation in the Office of the Provost, presented at the Society of College and University Planners annual conference in Philadelphia this summer. Their talk, “Charting the Future of Education: Expedited, Experiential Strategic Planning,” presented a case study of how their teams engaged with the Tufts community over the past 12 months to develop an impactful and differentiating educational vision for the future of Tufts.
Kendra Field, associate professor of history, and Kerri Greenidge, Mellon Associate Professor of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, appeared on ABC News to discuss the collaborative 10 Million Names project.
Laura Gee, associate professor of economics, had her research on gender inequality in external demands for parental involvement spotlighted in a Boston Globe article. Read more about this research on Tufts Now.
Angelina Gualdoni, professor of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, had work included in the group show Lucid Dreams at the Shirley Project Space in Brooklyn.
Eric Hines, professor of the practice at the School of Engineering, spoke with NBC News about the benefits of offshore wind turbine installation vessels.
Linden Hu, the Paul and Elaine Chervinsky Professor of Immunology at the School of Medicine, discusses the rise of babesiosis, a tick-borne illness, in a recent NPR article.
Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ibrahim Warde, adjunct professor of international business at The Fletcher School, and Frank Sobchak, F22, contributed to the book Contextualizing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia, which was edited by Satgin Hamrah, AG24. Read more about the book on Tufts Now.
Y. Natalie Jeong, professor and chair of periodontology at the School of Dental Medicine, discussed how oil pulling, a trend where people swish oil (like sesame, coconut, or sunflower) to try to clean their mouths and teeth instead of mouthwash, doesn’t have enough scientific evidence to determine effectiveness, in a recent Popular Science article.
Laura Jones, doctoral student at The Fletcher School, addressed how drones are used in war in an episode of the Irregular Warfare Initiative podcast.
David Kaplan, Stern Family Endowed Professor of Engineering, is quoted in the WPRI article “Mass. researchers studying feasibility of mass-producing lab-grown meat.” Kaplan explains the science and benefits of cellular agriculture in this article. Additionally, alumnus Davide Duckevich is quoted discussing his donation to the Kaplan Lab in support of their ongoing research efforts.
Barbara Kates-Garnick, professor of the practice at The Fletcher School, commented on the future of offshore wind in an NBC News article.
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), discusses what can be done to engage young voters ahead of the 2024 election in a U.S. News & World Report op-ed.
Sulmaan Khan, associate professor of international history and Chinese foreign relations, had his new book The Struggle for Taiwan referenced in a New Yorker article. Read more about the book on Tufts Now.
Michael Klein, William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs, authored the EconoFact article “What Determines Countries’ Olympic Success?”
Susan Landau, professor at The Fletcher School, joins UC Berkeley’s Jim Dempsey for a piece in Lawfare on how AI decision-making may affect due process rights, the subject of their recent workshop.
Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology at the School of Arts and Sciences, recently joined the Theories of Everything podcast for an in-depth discussion of biology and his developmental research.
Alice H. Lichtenstein, Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science, was quoted in the Fortune article “6 foods that could be making you age faster.”
Pavel Luzin, visiting scholar at The Fletcher School, was quoted in the Financial Times article “The Kremlin princelings cementing Putin’s rule” and provided analysis for The Economist article “Russia’s vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out.”
Sola Mahfouz, physics researcher, authored an opinion piece in The Hill about the 1,000 days of no school for girls in Afghanistan.
John McDonald, professor of music, gave a talk at the 2024 Biennial State Conference at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. The conference title reflected the title of McDonald’s music: “Week In, Week Out—A Teacher’s Journey,” which explores pianistic work-life concepts designed to engage the curious intermediate to advanced keyboard aficionado. Pianist Liam Greene performed McDonald’s new work at the conference.
Lionel McPherson, associate professor of philosophy, authored a new book entitled The Afterlife of Race: An Informed Philosophical Search. Read more about the book on Tufts Now.
Chris Miller, associate professor of international history at The Fletcher School, testified to the U.S. House of Representatives about why semiconductor chips are so crucial to the global economy. Miller is quoted in the South China Morning Post article “Reviving Russia’s weapons exports to Vietnam in focus as Putin visits Hanoi” and was interviewed for Business Insider’s article “What happens to AI progress if China invades Taiwan? A chat with 'Chip War' expert Chris Miller.”
Dariush Mozaffarian, dean emeritus and director of the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, was senior author on a new study entitled “Trends in Diet Quality Among U.S. Adults From 1999 to 2020 by Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Disadvantage,” published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Mozaffarian discussed the study with CNN. Read more about the trends in diet quality on Tufts Now.
Ethan Murrow, professor of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, has a solo show opening at Winston Wachter NYC on September 5. Murrow has been commissioned for a new mural for the Broad Institute Clinical Labs, which will be featured in their new headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts. Murrow worked with two assistants who are SMFA alums, Nicolas Papa and Lei Zong, on the mural, which will be completed by the end of August. Murrow is also participating in two art fairs during the summer with Winston Wächter Fine Art (New York/Seattle). The fairs are Seattle Art Fair and the Intersect Aspen.
Chidi Odinkalu, professor of the practice in international human rights law at The Fletcher School, discusses the state of checks and balances in the Nigerian political system in an article in The Africa Report.
Dede O’Shea, clinical assistant professor at the School of Medicine, spoke to Buzzfeed about personality traits and work behaviors commonly linked to ADHD in adults.
Mihaela Papa, a senior fellow at The Fletcher School, was quoted in the VOA article “Experts: Thailand’s bid to join BRICS is mostly symbolic.”
Anastassios Pittas, professor of medicine, was a co-author on research entitled “Vitamin D for the Prevention of Disease: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline,” which was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Pittas was also quoted in a Medscape Medical News article about the findings of the research.
Ken Pucker, professor of the practice at The Fletcher School, was quoted in the ProPublica article “Nike Pledged to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint. It Just Slashed the Staff Charged With Making That Happen.”
Jonathan Runstadler, professor and chair of infectious disease and global health, and Wendy Puryear, infectious disease and global health scientist, both at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, authored a study that is mentioned in the USA Today article “Concerns grow as ‘gigantic’ bird flu outbreak runs rampant in U.S. dairy herds.”
Elaine Short, assistant professor of computer science, wrote a piece for The Conversation entitled “Disability community has long wrestled with ‘helpful’ technologies—lessons for everyone in dealing with AI.”
Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy at The Fletcher School, authored The Hill op-eds entitled “Has America lost its moral compass?” and “A make-or-break week in Washington has the world on pins and needles.”
Farshid Vahedifard, professor and Louis Berger Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, spoke with Mongabay India about the amplifying feedback loop between drought and greenhouse gas emissions, referencing his research published in Environmental Research Letters in March 2024 entitled “Amplifying feedback loop between drought, soil desiccation cracking, and greenhouse gas emissions.” Vahedifard was also quoted in the Grist article “Taking a train during a heat wave? Watch out for ‘sun kinks.’”
Craig Wassinger, professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Boston Program, and Jeff Foucrier, professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy in the Arizona Program, are quoted in the article “Icing an injury may be doing more harm than good,” in Futurity. Wassinger also provided information in a Health article about pain relief after an injury.
Chantal Zakari, professor of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, was interviewed by B&H Photo & Video podcast for “Pictures from the Inside: Seeing Fascination Everywhere, with Chantal Zakari & Nigel Poor.”
The School of Medicine is highlighted in a Telegram & Gazette article for its integration of the Operation House Call program.
The School of Medicine’s Maine Track Program is featured in a WAGM-TV article entitled “Medical Students Getting Their Start at Cary Medical.” Grace Gile, a medical student at the School of Medicine, is interviewed in this article about her experience working at a rural hospital, Cary Medical Center, in Caribou, Maine.
Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at The Fletcher School, Alice H. Lichtenstein, Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and Karen Panetta, dean of graduate education and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the School of Engineering, have been named Distinguished Professors. The distinction is reserved for senior professors “who have made exceptional contributions to their disciplines, to their students, and to the university as teachers/scholars exemplifying the finest of Tufts’ traditions,” according to the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President. Read more on Tufts Now.
Zameera Fida, Thomas F. Winkler Professor of Endodontics and chair of endodontics, has been appointed as the director of the Post Graduate Program in Endodontics at the School of Dental Medicine. Fida had been serving in this role on an interim basis since January 2024.
Aikaterini Papathanasiou, professor at the School of Medicine, was named chair of the Department of Comprehensive Care. Papathanasiou has been the interim chair of the department since September 2023.
Hana Sadi, associate professor, has been promoted to director of the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program at the School of Dental Medicine. Sadi has been at the school since 2005, starting as a PGY 1 and 2 general practice residency and chief, and completing a third year Fellowship in Advanced General Dentistry in 2008.