Kudos February 2025
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: Sydney Grant, Operations Coordinator, Office for Campus Life
AS&E Shared: Patrick Quinn, Asst Librarian Res & Instruct, Tisch Library
Advancement: Joseph Walker, Administrative Coordinator, UA-Advancement Operations
Advancement: Nikki Ayres, Assoc Dir Corp & Found Rel, UA-Corporate & Foundation Rel
Advancement: Carmen Dore, Staff Assistant, UA-Medical Dev & Alumni Rel
Arts and Sciences: Tiziana Gallo, Lecturer, Anthropology
Arts and Sciences: Juhee Park, Lecturer, Biology - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Brian Yocis, Instrumentation Specialist, Chemistry - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Rubel Chandra Talukder, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Kelly Fleese, Lecturer, EP Child Study & Human Dev
Arts and Sciences: Stacey Piwinski, Lecturer, Education - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Ryan Thomas, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Melissa Hector, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Jessica Lander, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Milo Todd, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Cynthia Perry, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Margaret Freeman, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Michaila Peters, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Rafael Abrahams, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Steven Edwards, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Juliana Lunde, Lecturer, Experimental College
Arts and Sciences: Iris Feldt, Lecturer, Physics & Astronomy - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Nicholas Anderson, Lecturer, Political Science - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Negin Mohammadmirzaei, Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Dorothy Wang, Associate Professor, Race, Colonialism & Diaspora
Arts and Sciences: Patricia Sanchez Martin, Lecturer, Romance Studies - A&S
Arts and Sciences: Roan Parrish, Lecturer, Science, Technology & Society
Arts and Sciences: Eric Horvath, Professor of the Practice, Urban & Enviro Policy & Plan
Auxiliary Services: XiHu Arfa, SMFA Art Store Assistant Mgr, Stores
Central Administration: Ralph Eugene, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Health Science Health Services
Central Administration: Julie Thayer, Staff Clinician, Health Science Health Services
Central Administration: Tara Murphy, Benefits Specialist, Human Resources
Central Administration: Alexis Howard, Budget Analyst, Office of Budget & Planning
Central Administration: Erin Brenneman, Sr Budget Analyst, Office of Budget & Planning
Central Administration: Lenia Constantinou, Sr Budget Analyst, Office of Budget & Planning
Central Administration: Pinar Irmaklar, Senior Strategic Sourcing Spec, Procurement
Central Administration: Brett Finch, Strategic Sourcing Manager, Procurement
Central Administration: Reed Swain, Asst Dir Strategic Initatives, University Strategy & Pgrm Dev
Cummings: Simone March, Assistant Clinical Professor, Clinical Sciences-Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Christina Johnson, Client Services Assistant, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Sabrina Richards, Infection Control Technician, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Antonia Van Dam, Veterinary Assistant, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Nailea Salinas, Veterinary Assistant, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Isadora Ferreira, Veterinary Technician I, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Catherine Brady, Veterinary Technician II, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Erica Dwyer, Veterinary Technician II, Foster Hosp - Cummings-Vet
Cummings: Abigail Stymiest, Veterinary Technician I, Large Animal Hosp-Cummings-Vet
Dental: Jenny Dao, Patient Financial Coordinator, Revenue Cycle Operations
Dental: Heeji Hyun, Patient Financial Coordinator, Revenue Cycle Operations
Dining: Josue Zaldivar, Third Cook, Dewick Dining
Engineering: Dongwook Kim, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering: Jingyi Yu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering: Sergio Salgado Briegas, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering: Niyera Mitchell, Research Tech, Biomedical Engineering
Engineering: Samantha Tracey, Sr Research Coordinator, CABCS
Engineering: Vitaly Yurik, Lecturer, Computer Science
Engineering: Rebecca Curran, Program Coordinator, Computer Science
Engineering: Minh Dat Nguyen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical & Computer Engineer
Engineering: Filip Cuckov, Professor of the Practice, Gordon Institute
Engineering: Haroula Tzamaras, Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
Fletcher: Wesley Hester, Dir Admin & Finance, Fletcher Sch of Law & Diplomcy
Friedman: Khristopher Nicholas, Assistant Professor, Khristopher Nicholas Research
HNRCA: Andrea O'Neill, Communications Manager, Core/Service Support-HNRC
HNRCA: Stephanie Breton, Staff Nurse, Metabolic Research Unit-HNRC
Medical: Audrey Elias, Assistant Professor, DPT Boston Program
Medical: Becca Brazelton, Lab Instructor, DPT Lab Instructors
Medical: Anna Van Alstyne, Assistant Professor, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Paul Salamh, Visiting Assoc Prof, DPT Phoenix Program
Medical: Jesse Rideout, Associate Professor, Educational Affairs - Medical
Medical: Laurence Bailen, Clinical Associate Professor, Educational Affairs - Medical
Medical: Jocoll Burgess, Instructor, Medical Education
Operations: Anthony Richards, HVAC Mechanic, Facilities Services - Grafton
Provost: Muhammad Mustafa Humayun, Assoc Dir Strategic Initiative, Office of the Vice Provost
Provost: Maxim Shabrov, Associate Director Licensing, Office of the Vice Provost
Provost: Gerard Foo, Sr Res Dev Specialist, Office of the Vice Provost
Provost: Sydney Moyer, Communications Manager, Provost's Office
Provost: Henry Reinhart, Research Tech, Provost's Office
Provost: Nora Soto, Digital Archivist, Tufts Archival Research Center
SMFA at Tufts: Haley Mackeil, Lecturer, SMFA
SMFA at Tufts: Sophia Eisner, Lecturer, SMFA
Tisch: Ben Snyder, Lecturer, Tisch College
Tisch: Adele Watkins, Lecturer, Tisch College
Tisch: Velina Batchvarov, Program Manager, Tisch College
Tisch: Nawrin Rahman, Program Manager, Tisch College
Tisch: Leela Strong, Sr Director Circle, Tisch College
Tufts Technology Services: Patricia Stevens, Sr Clinical Systems Analyst, Tufts Technology Services
Tufts Technology Services: Matthew Frost, Sr IT Ops Systems Engineer, Tufts Technology Services
Tufts Technology Services: Hughes Mayo, Sr PACs Administrator, Tufts Technology Services
Tufts Technology Services: Robert Thayer III, Systems Analyst, Tufts Technology Services
Kwasi Ampene, chair of the Department of Music and professor, had his book Engaging Modernity: Asante in the Twenty-First Century presented to the flagbearer of Ghana’s opposition party, His Excellency John Mahama. Asante King, His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, presented the book. A few days after the presentation, John Mahama became Ghana’s president-elect. (The presentation of the book begins at the 52-minute mark.)
Damian Archer, assistant dean for multicultural affairs and clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the School of Medicine, joined the AI Advisory Board for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, which is helping to develop national AI curriculum models and shape the future of family medicine education.
Ayse Asatekin, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering and Steve and Kristen Remondi Fellow, was awarded a 2025 North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Permeance Prize for Mid-Career Excellence. Each year, NAMS honors two researchers based on their exemplary track record in advancing membrane science or technology and their recognized service to NAMS. Asatekin will receive her award at the upcoming NAMS annual meeting in Nashville this May.
Chloe Bird, Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine, was a committee member who contributed to the report “A New Vision for Women’s Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health.” The report, published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, makes recommendations for National Institutes of Health women’s health research priorities, workforce, systems, funding, and more.
Anjuli Fahlberg, assistant professor of sociology, was awarded a distinguished scholar award from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to support her project entitled “How States of Exception Impact Lived Experiences of Violence in Gang Territories: A Comparison of El Salvador and Honduras.”
Leila Fawaz, professor emerita the founding director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at The Fletcher School, was awarded the Provost’s Medal in recognition of her nearly 50-year career as a distinguished social historian of the Eastern Mediterranean region, with specific emphasis on the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Elizabeth Leake, Lee E. Dirks Professor in Diplomatic History at The Fletcher School, won a book commission from publisher Pan Macmillan, who says her upcoming book Freedom!: A Global History of Decolonisation is “... a gripping account of one of the most consequential forces of human history over the past 250 years—the shift from people being subjects of empire to becoming citizens of their own independent country.”
Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology, was included in Vox’s 2024 Future Perfect 50 list, celebrating thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the future a better place. Levin was recognized in the “Expanding the Mind” category for his research understanding intelligence and memory and questioning what kinds of creatures deserve moral concern. Vox writer Oshan Jarow describes the impact of Levin’s work saying: “If mind and intelligence are spectrums that will run across all sorts of hybrid beings in the coming years, [Levin’s] unconventional work invites us to expand the horizons of our compassion accordingly.”
Kristyn Newhall, clinical assistant professor in family medicine at the School of Medicine, received the 2024 Competency-based Apprenticeship in Primary Care Teaching Award.
Amy Schlessman, assistant professor of the DPT Phoenix Program, received the 2024 Kathe Shelby Outstanding Special Education Leadership Award from the Ohio Department of Education.
Jennifer Schmidt, professor of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, has been awarded residency at Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, this March through the end of April. Schmidt has also been awarded a Manhattan Graphics Fellowship for this summer.
Elizabeth Setren, Gunnar Myrdal Assistant Professor of economics, was awarded President Biden's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award was given by the Department of Education for Setren’s research on METCO. Read more about the honor on Tufts Now.
Charles Shoemaker, professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election as an academy fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors. The NAI was founded to recognize and encourage inventors with U.S. patents and enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation.
Sameer Sonkusale, professor of electrical and computer engineering, participated in the first Nasdaq closing bell ceremony of 2025 with Daré Bioscience, Inc., and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
Moyo Tillery, assistant professor and director of admissions in the DPT Boston program at the School of Medicine, has been appointed to the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force of the International Federation of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists. This appointment underscores both Tillery’s leadership and Tufts University’s ongoing commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in health-care education and practice.
Tufts University School of Medicine hosted the 2024 Earle P. Charlton Poster Competition. This event showcased an impressive array of research work and served as a platform for students from diverse disciplines to exchange ideas with the Tufts scientific community, all the while fine-tuning their presentation skills. The competition was divided into three categories: GSBS Junior, GSBS Senior, and Professional. Junior GSBS Category winners were: Pascal Schamber, Ph.D. student in neuroscience, in first; Elizabeth Billings, Ph.D. student in molecular microbiology, in second. Senior GSBS Category winners were: Machlan Sawden, Ph.D. student in immunology, in first; Nicole Wolter, M.D./Ph.D. student in genetics, molecular & cellular biology, in second; and honorable mentions Haley Dame, Ph.D. student in genetics, molecular & cellular biology, Ariana Calkwood Calderon-Zavala, Ph.D. student in molecular microbiology, Yishak Woldetsadik, Ph.D. student in molecular microbiology, and Chantal Crystal Antonette Aaron, Ph.D. student in neuroscience. Professional Student Category winners were: Corey Bryton, M26, in co-first; Colette Fritsche, M25, in co-first; Michael Zhu, M26, in co-first; and honorable mentions Ana Leonard, M27, Gabriella Schreiner, M26, and Megan Li, M25.
Katrina Burgess, professor of political economy at The Fletcher School, wrote The Conversation article “Trump’s plans for tougher border enforcement won’t necessarily stop migrants from coming to US—but their journeys could become more costly and dangerous.”
Dana Cairns, biomedical engineering research associate, Brooke Smiley, third-year graduate student in biomedical engineering, Jordan Smiley, Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering, Yasaman Khorsandian, E22, Marilyn Kelly, Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering, and David Kaplan, Stern Family Professor in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, along with a colleague at Oxford University, Ruth Itzhaki, authored research titled “Repetitive injury induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease by reactivating HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model” in the journal Science Signaling. Additionally, Cairns spoke on an episode of the BBC Science in Action podcast about the findings of this research. Read more about the research on Tufts Now.
Michael Cohen, senior fellow at The Fletcher School’s Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University, in a column for MSNBC, discussed the factors that led to the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at The Fletcher School, was quoted in the New York Times article “A Symbol of India’s Global Soft Power Stumbles After U.S. Indictments” and the Inc. article “Klarna Used an AI-generated CEO to Share Financials. Will More Companies Follow?” Additionally, Chakravorti wrote The Indian Express article “H-1B visa debate shows America has invaded itself,” and Chakravorti’s piece “What if Regulation Makes the AI Monopoly Worse?” was featured as one of Foreign Policy’s top five artificial intelligence articles of 2024.
Ming Chow, associate teaching professor, spoke with Government Technology about the new Tufts Cybersecurity Clinic. Read more about the clinic on Tufts Now.
Tom Dannenbaum, associate professor of international law at The Fletcher School, was quoted in The New Humanitarian article “‘A pattern of apparent war crimes’: Experts weigh in on TNH’s Gaza aid killings investigation.”
Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and research professor at The Fletcher School, is quoted in Reuters articles “As Gaza suffers, hunger watchdog refrains from using the F word: famine” and “Exclusive: Sudan drops out of hunger-monitor system on eve of famine report.” Additionally, de Waal and Aditya Sarkar, Fletcher Ph.D. student, authored the New Security Beat article “The Traumas of Unplanned Decarbonization in Fragile States.”
Shira Doron, professor at the School of Medicine, was featured in the Infectious Diseases Society of America media briefing on bird flu in the United States.
Dan Drezner, Distinguished Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School, wrote the New York Times opinion piece “The Evolution of Marco Rubio” as well as the Foreign Policy essay “Does the Madman Theory Actually Work?” Additionally, Drezner was quoted in the Wall Street Journal piece “Fall of Syrian Regime Exposes Limits of Russia’s Global Ambitions,” was featured in the NPR piece “Is Trump’s rhetoric on Greenland, Canada, and Panama Canal a ‘Madman Strategy’?”, and his analysis was cited in a Slate article, “Things Aren’t Looking Great for Global Democracy. But Autocrats Are Suffering Too.”
Monica Duffy Toft, professor of international politics at The Fletcher School, analyzed the roles and responsibilities that Senator Marco Rubio will assume once he is sworn in as U.S. secretary of state in an article for The Conversation.
Catherine Freudenreich, professor and department chair of biology, led the team that discovered a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene. Freudenreich and her research team report the results in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled “APOBEC3A deaminates CTG hairpin loops to promote fragility and instability of expanded CAG/CTG repeats.” Read more about the research on Tufts Now.
Ariana Hinckley-Boltax, assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Pathobiology at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, is the lead author of the study, “A prioritized list of veterinary clinical presentations in dogs, cats, and horses to guide curricular content, design, and assessment,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education. Hinckley-Boltax has presented the survey results at the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges annual conference and at the Veterinary Educators Symposium at Texas Tech University, and publication in the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education will broaden the reach of the findings.
Aram Hur, Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies and assistant professor of political science at The Fletcher School, was quoted in Washington Post and Wall Street Journal articles about Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempt to impose martial law on South Korea. Hur also co-authored a piece for The Hill analyzing South Korea’s growing nationalist polarization in light of the recent martial law decree by Yoon Suk Yeol.
Shafiqul Islam, professor of civil and environmental engineering, delivered a Distinguished Lecture at Krea University in India. His talk examined the intersection of science, policy, and the politics of water on local and global scales. Additionally, Islam delivered a keynote lecture at an international seminar at North South University in Bangladesh. Islam explored the question: Can engineering diplomacy break the ice on transboundary water between Bangladesh and India?
Maulik Jagnani, assistant professor of environmental economics at The Fletcher School, wrote the VoxDev article “The overlooked role of sleep in children’s education in India.”
Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History, spoke to The Print India about the ideas that shaped Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan. Additionally, Jalal spoke on Muslim-enlightened thought at Afkar-e-Taza ThinkFest, challenging the conception that enlightenment is a Western invention, which was covered in a Dawn piece.
Adam Kamradt-Scott, associate professor of One Health diplomacy at The Fletcher School; Helen Boucher, dean of the School of Medicine, professor of medicine, and chief academic officer at Tufts Medicine; Bree Aldridge, professor of molecular biology and microbiology at the School of Medicine; and Bernard Arulanandam, vice provost for research and professor of immunology at the School of Medicine, spoke at the Princess Chulabhorn International Science Congress, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2024. They focused on the theme of One Health. Initiated by Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol, the congress is designed for the exchange of the latest information and the most recent advances in research among the international scientific community. The contributions to the congress by the four Tufts research leaders follow 2023’s visit by the princess to Tufts.
Susan Landau, professor in cybersecurity and policy at the School of Engineering and senior fellow in the Center for International Law and Governance at The Fletcher School, discussed the benefits and drawbacks of end-to-end encryption on the Lawfare Daily podcast.
Marco Lo Presti, research assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was interviewed for the NPR Science Friday episode “Accidental Breakthrough Makes Web-Slinging Silk A Reality.”
Pavel Luzin, visiting scholar at The Fletcher School, is quoted in the Financial Times article “Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria.”
Daniel Maxwell, Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a professor at The Fletcher School, is quoted in a Reuters piece titled “The world’s hunger watchdog warned of catastrophe in Sudan. Famine struck anyway.”
Chris Miller, professor at The Fletcher School, discussed the state of semiconductor manufacturing in China in a BloombergTV interview; commented on the U.S. economy’s increasing reliance on microchips in a Marketplace segment; was quoted in an Axios article about President Biden ratcheting up the AI chip war with China; was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about how U.S. chip policy may have fixated too closely on manufacturing rather than research; and discussed Malaysia’s challenges in maintaining neutrality between the United States and China in the global semiconductor industry for The Edge Malaysia. Additionally, Miller was described as the “star of the event” at the VLSI Design Conference in Bengaluru, according to the Times of India article about the event. Miller and Satya Gupta, president of the VLSI Society of India, discussed ways for India to capture more of the global semiconductor design and production market.
Eric Miller, professor of electrical and computer engineering, led research titled “Self-supervised anomaly detection and localization for X-ray cargo images: Generalization to novel anomalies,” which was published in the journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Miller and his team developed a novel AI model that could make finding prohibited items in imported cargo faster and more accurate than current X-ray technology. Read more about this research on Tufts Now.
Sergei Mirkin, professor and White Family Chair in Biology, and his team at the Mirkin Lab authored two major papers: “Recurrent DNA nicks drive massive expansions of (GAA)n repeats” in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. and “Stabilization of expandable DNA repeats by the replication factor Mcm10 promotes cell viability” in Nature Communications.
Marcia Moreno-Baez, research professor at The Fletcher School, co-authored a Frontiers – Marine Science article titled “Plastics’ circular economy for the Galápagos Islands? Exploring plastics governance with implications for social and ocean equity in a UNESCO World Heritage Site.” The article explores key issues around plastics governance, sustainability, and equity in the context of the Galápagos Islands.
Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, led a team of Friedman School researchers, which included Laura Lara-Castor, NG24, who is now at University of Washington, on a study titled “Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries” in the journal Nature Medicine, on which Mozaffarian was senior author and Castor first author. The study estimates that 2.2 million new cases of type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cases of cardiovascular disease occur each year globally due to consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. Read more about the research on Tufts Now.
Chidi Odinkalu, professor of the practice of international human rights law at The Fletcher School, participated in a panel discussion on the first day of the Academic Conference on Africa 2024, organized by the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa and the U.N. Academic Impact. The panel focused on the day’s theme, “Rights and Realities: Integrating Diverse Dimensions of Human Rights in Africa.”
Merredith Portsmore, director, Elissa Milto, director of outreach, and Chelsea Andrews, research assistant professor, all at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, collaborated with Christopher Wright, EG11, associate professor at Drexel University, to provide a guide for elementary and middle school educators in implementing hands-on engineering activities titled Introducing Engineering in K-8 Settings: Fostering Children’s Powerful Design Ideas. Read more on the School of Engineering’s website.
Kenneth Pucker, professor of the practice at The Fletcher School, commented on the exodus of American banks from the Net Zero Banking Alliance in a Bloomberg article.
Chepkorir Sambu, researcher at the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, hosted a podcast for African Arguments exploring the “... experiences of Africans caught up in three such ongoing global conflicts: Ukraine, Sudan, and Lebanon.” Fletcher student Edward Okyere-Darko joined a recent episode to discuss his experience as a Ghanaian student fleeing the war in Ukraine.
Caleb Scoville, assistant professor of sociology, was quoted in a number of news outlets on false claims that environmental protections led to the California Wildfires. “It plays to a long-standing trope that liberals or people in cities or people in places like California or environmentalists care more about small, uncharismatic species than they care about their fellow Americans,” Scoville said in an NBC News piece. He was also quoted in National Geographic, Defector, Daily Bruin, and Bloomberg News.
Tara Sonenshine, professor of the practice at The Fletcher School, wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun titled “Let’s get smart about drones.”
Mikhail Troitskiy, professor at The Fletcher School, wrote the 1945 piece “Can Donald Trump Really End the Russia-Ukraine War?”
Thomas Vandervelde, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kevin Grossklaus, a technical staff scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory who was previously a Tufts research assistant professor and laboratory manager, and Amanda Lemire, a joint Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at Tufts, were on the research team from the Tufts Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Labs that recently authored a paper, “Temperature-Dependent Dielectric Response, Index of Refraction, and Absorption Coefficient of GeSn Films up to 8.4% Sn”, in the journal IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. Read more about the research on the School of Engineering’s website.
Ann Ward, sustainability manager, co-authored a new book about grassroots climate activism drawing on her dissertation research on how young people process their emotions around climate change.
Nathan Ward, associate professor of psychology, co-authored a paper with several collaborators, including second-year psychology graduate student Julie DiCarlo, who is the first author. Titled “Distinct Constructs Underlie Patient-Reported and Performance-Rated Outcomes after Stroke,” the paper was published in the journal Annals of Neurology and examines the relationship between patient-reported outcome measures and performance-based measures in stroke survivors with arm motor impairments.
Rob White, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and colleagues have officially launched a sonic anemometer that rose to 125,000 feet altitude in Antarctica, as part of an ongoing stratospheric balloon project. Watch the launch and track the balloon online.
Abiodun Williams, professor of the practice of international politics at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Study, authored the article “The US ambassador to the UN is tasked with doing a careful dance between Washington and the world” in The Conversation.
Researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering authored “Understanding the promotional role of Pd in oxidative alcohol coupling reactions over dilute PdAu alloys” in the Journal of Catalysis.
Jordan Wilkinson was promoted to senior research administrator at Tufts IRACDA.