Art Your Research!!
This year, we’ve added a new (and thrilling) element to Tufts’ annual Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium: a competition called ...
Read MoreCoffee in Contemporary Puerto Rican Artworks: Materialism in the Age of Anthropogenic Climate Change
by Michaela Morse Faculty mentor: Sylvia Bottenelli, Art History; funding source: The Schwartz/Paddock Undergraduate Fellowship in the Visual and Performing ...
Read MoreBurke’s Rome
by James Himberger mentor: Robert Devigne, Political Science; funding source: Michael Ewald Summer Scholars Fund In the summer of 2020, ...
Read MoreInvestigating the Role of STING in Response to Cardiovascular Inflammation
by Sophia Boxerman mentor: Alcide Pilar, Immunology, TUMS; funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund Cardiovascular disease (CVD), claiming ...
Read MoreWashington DC in the 20th Century: A History of Housing and Environmental Injustice
by Elena Pastreich mentor: James Rice, History; funding source: Rosenfeld Family Summer Scholars My project stemmed from both an interest ...
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Summer Scholars 2020 Poster Session: Meaning from Chaos
I think it’s safe to say that this was a summer like no other. As the seriousness of the pandemic ...
Read MoreWASH Cluster Response to the Humanitarian Emergency in Yemen
by Langley Topper mentor: Daniele Lantagne; funding source: NSF TRIPODS ...
Read MoreOvercoming Abuse: Montesquieu and Dostoevsky’s shared thesis
by Meredith Sherman mentor: Vickie Sullivan, Political Science; funding source: Tufts Summer Scholars Fund Individuality requires that human institutions be ...
Read MoreReasonably Enraged: The Defense of Provocation
by Cormac McAdams mentor: Mario DeCaro, Philosophy; funding source: Fowler Family Summer Scholars Fund Intuitions about human behavior and motivations ...
Read MoreLuminescent Nanoparticles as Nanothermometers
by Ben Maloy Mentor: Igor Sokolov, Mechanical Engineering; Funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund Thermodynamics at the nanoscale ...
Read MoreLegal Exclusion as a Determinant of Health
by Amith Galivanche Mentor: Ramnath Subbarman, Public Health and Community Medicine, TUMS; funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund ...
Read MoreOptimization of W+jets sensitivity to NLO electroweak corrections at the LHC
by Bayley Cornish mentor: Hugo Beauchamin, Physics and Astronomy; funding source: Summer Scholars student fund Particle physics is a weird ...
Read MoreRitualizing the Futile Labor of the Latino Working-Poor Class
by Alberto Checa mentor: Anthony Romero, SMFA; funding source: Schwartz/Paddock Undergraduate Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts ...
Read MoreGenomic and transcriptomic insights into the microbiome of the flatworm Dugesia japonica
by Neal Chan mentor: Benjamin Wolfe, Biology; funding source: Nelson Family Summer Scholars Fund This summer I had the privilege ...
Read MoreUnearthing the History of Tufts’ Own Tomb Wall with A Funerary Scene
by Sofia Zamboli mentor: Bruce Hitchner, Classical Studies; funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund My research project with ...
Read MoreCreating a Super-Organism: Complicating Honey Bee Research and Resilience Thinking
by Grace van Deelen mentor: Alex Blanchette, Anthropology; funding source: Discovery Fund The information in this poster is the result ...
Read MoreGraph Modeling Algorithms: A Spectral Approach
by Liam Thomas Mentor: Abiy Tasissa, Mathematics; funding source: Provost’s Office Graph theory studies the mathematical properties of graphs, which ...
Read MoreThe Arginine-Phenylglyoxal Peptide Tag (APP-tag) – A Ubiquitous Strategy for Protein Bioconjugation In Vivo
by Olivia Steiner mentor: Rebecca Scheck, Chemistry; funding source: Usdin Summer Scholars Fund Our bodies are composed of millions of ...
Read MoreOnline Applications of HodgeRank Problems
by Taoli Shen mentor: Xiaozhe Hu, Mathematics; funding source: NSF TRIPODS You may think the title of my project is ...
Read MoreThe Day Was the Same Day: Finality and Personhood in Anna Burns’ Milkman
by Ethan Resek mentor: John Lurz, English; funding source: Provost’s Office I wanted to use this blog post to expound ...
Read MoreOptogenetic Regulation of Insulin Secretion in Pancreatic β-Cells
by Leah Truskinovsky mentor: Emmanuel Tzanakakis; funding source: Provost’s office Diabetes is linked to irregular levels of insulin, a hormone ...
Read MoreSeu Amor é Cômico: Sexual Wordplay in Latin American Music, Poetry, and Fiction
by Rosa Stern Pait mentor: Pablo Ruiz, Romance Languages; funding source: Summer Scholars Student Fund ...
Read MoreThe First Homogeneous Measurement of the Evolution of the Luminosity Function of Galaxies in the Last 12.6 Billion Years
by Victor Soto Castro mentor: Danilo Marchesini, Physics and Astronomy; funding source: NSF TRIPODS Today, 13.8 billion years after the ...
Read MoreAfroecology: A Preliminary Investigation of Black and Indigenous Food and Farming at the Rural-Urban Interface
by Kareal Amenumey mentor: Cathy Stanton, Anthropology; funding source: Farmanfarmaian and Terry Summer Scholars Fund ...
Read MoreMore Than It Racemes: Understanding Adult Butterfly Nutrition in Icaricia icarioides blackmorei
by Hanna Brush mentor: Elizabeth Crone, Biology; funding source: Provost’s Office Understanding how species interact with their environment is crucial ...
Read MoreProtest Postcards
by Rebecca Budd mentor: Peter Scott, SMFA; funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund ...
Read MoreTools, Property, and Power
by Ezri Horne Mentor: Kendall Reiss, SMFA; funding source: Schwartz/Paddock Undergraduate Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts ...
Read MoreExtending the Role of Architecture in Preserving and Representing Cultures Across Communities
By Bruce Ahirwe Mentor: Aaron White, History of Art and Architecture; funding source: Laura and Martin Bendetson Endowed Summer Scholars ...
Read MoreThe Political Preferences of Activist CEOs
by Joshua Hochberg mentor: Eitan Hersh, Political Science; Funding source: Summer Scholars Student Fund Corporate leaders are powerful political actors. ...
Read MoreConstraining cap regions to make short peptides alpha-helical
By Cameron Cummings Mentor: Joshua Kritzer, Chemistry; funding source: Provost’s Office Proteins, large molecules made up of amino acids, carry ...
Read MoreCritical Asian American Education: Racial Identity Development in Chinatown Youth
by Nora Li Mentor: Penn Loh: Urban and Environmental Planning; funding source: Rosenfeld Family Summer Scholars Fund Being a youth ...
Read MoreStorytelling Through Public Arts Projects with the Chinatown Community
by Maria Fong mentor: Ethan Murrow, SMFA; funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund This summer, I worked collaboratively ...
Read MoreInclusion and Diversity Practices in Children’s Media
by Elon Perry-Steiner Mentor: Julie Dobrow, Child Study and Human Development; Nancy Gurwitz Sambul Summer Scholars Fund This project addresses ...
Read MoreCobalt-Chromium Solidification Modeling for Use in Additive Manufacturing
by Dorothy Waskow Mentor: Douglas Matson; funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund This research sought to determine properties ...
Read MoreModeling Clogging in Microfulidic Devices
by Abigail Wilson Mentor: Timothy Atherton, Physics; funding source: Steven J. Eliopoulos Fund for Undergraduate Research in Physics and Astronomy ...
Read MoreArts, Gentrification, and Health in Boston’s Chinatown
by Amanda Yuan Mentor: Shalini Tendulkar, Community Health; funding source: Provost’s Office ...
Read MoreEthane-to-Ethylene Conversion on Cobalt Molybdate Catalyst Using Carbon Dioxide as a Soft Oxidant
by Jayson Pinals mentor: Prashant Deshlahra, Chemical and Biological Engineering; funding source: Provost’s Office I am very excited to be ...
Read MoreGender and Sexuality in the Work of the Brontë Sisters
by Brittany Regas Mentor: Sonia Hofkosh, English; funding source: Provost’s Office My project, “Gender and Sexuality in the Works of ...
Read MoreA Pedagogical Investigation of Metal Oxide Photocatalysts: From Band Theory to Nanoparticle Synthesis and Structure
by Mitchell Albert-Shapiro Mentor: Mary Jane Schulz, Chemistry; funding source: Provost’s Office My Summer Scholars research topic focused on the ...
Read MoreStructure Collapse: Patterns in the Archaeological Record
by Amy Socha Mentor: Lauren Sullivan, Anthropology and Archaeology; funding source: Discovery Fund My research this summer was concerned with ...
Read MoreMeaningful Connections: Mentor-Mentee Relations and Their Promotion of Sense of Belonging Amongst First-Generation Students
by Jessica Angeles Mentor: Sasha Fleary, Child Study and Human Development; funding source: Barbara B. Young Summer Scholars Fund There ...
Read MoreHalf the History: Janice Lourie
by Isabel Fernandez Mentor: Jennifer Burton, Film and Media Studies; funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund My research ...
Read MoreConstrained Theta-10 Routing Between Visible Vertices
by Jonathan Rodriguez Mentor: Diane Souvaine, Computer Science; funding source: NSF TRIPODS Imagine a network of devices communicating wirelessly. These ...
Read MoreStatistical Analysis of Two Machine Learning Models Used for a Wearable Sweat Patch Mobile System
by Sevara Nastritdinova mentor: Fiorenzo Omenetto, Biomedical Engineering; funding source: Gatof Summer Scholars Fund As part of the Summer Scholars ...
Read MoreTreatment Completion for Substance Use Disorders Among Older Adults: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Gender
by Ivette Rodriguez Borja Mentor: Andrea Acevedo, Community Health; funding source: NSF TRIPODS The population of older adults in the ...
Read MoreReconstructing Kin Across Time and Space: A Family History of Lili Kahn Deutsch
by Jesse Ryan Mentor: Kendra Field, History; Funding source: Kokulis Fund In his book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell writes that “we ...
Read MoreDisentangling the impact of local landscape structure & farm management strategies on pollination services by bees: A case study in Costa Rican coffee
by Leslie Spencer Mentor: Colin Orians, Environmental Studies; funding source: Laura and Martin Bendetson Endowed Summer Scholars Fund Biodiversity conservation ...
Read MoreGPT-2: A Novel Language Model to Analyze Patterns in Sentence Predictability
by Santiago Noriega Mentor: Gina Kuperberg, Psychology; funding source: Fowler family Summer Scholars fund A language model (LM) is a ...
Read MoreDeveloping a Long Term Bioelectric Interface for Measuring Multiple Human Neurons
by Aiden Lewis Mentor: Brian Timko, Biomedical Engineering; Funding Source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund What goes into measuring ...
Read MoreThe Role of APOBECs in Breakage at CAG Repeats
by Benjamin Larsen Mentor: Catherine Freudenreich, Biology; Funding Source: Ashvin I. Patel, M.D., A84, M88 and Vidisha A. Patel, Ed.D. ...
Read MoreChurchill in 1940: The Individual in History
by John LaLime Mentor: Elizabeth Foster, History; Funding Source: Marie R. Evans Endowed Summer Scholars Fund On May 10th, 1940, ...
Read MoreInfluenza Virus and PA-X: Looking At The Sequence Specificity of RNA Cleavage
By Amrita Iyer Mentor: Marta Gaglia, Biology; Funding Source: Provost’s Office Influenzas A Virus, otherwise known as the flu, affects ...
Read MoreAnomaly Detection on Spatiotemporal Graphs of Sparse Traffic Data
By Harris Hardiman-Mostow Mentor: James Murphy, Mathematics; Funding Source: NSF TRIPODS Hello! My name is Harris, I’m a senior at ...
Read MoreDeveloping Thin-Film Photovoltaics from Nontoxic and Earth Abundant Materials
by Andrea X. Foo Mentor: Luke Davis, Chemistry; Funding source: Provost’s Office With climate change gradually posing a greater problem ...
Read MoreUsing In Silico Methods to Examine Atherosclerosis in the ApoE KO Mouse: a Basic Science Meta-Analysis
by Rachel Xiang Mentor: Iris Jaffe, Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology, TUMS; Funding source: Nathan Gantcher Student Summer Scholars Fund ...
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Summer Scholars Presents: Our 2020 Student Panels!
Hello All, The Summer Scholars program funds rising juniors and seniors to pursue ten-week independent research projects. As part of ...
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Good news?: FOX News can’t save Trump from the reality of COVID-19
What with the terrifying development of anti-quarantine protests at State Houses around the country, it’s easy to cast about looking ...
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Strut your stuff with the Digital Design Studio!
The Digital Design Studio at Tisch Library is hosting an online showcase for all Tufts community members to show and see creative ...
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Applied knowledge in Medicinal Chemistry
It’s natural, in a crisis, to look toward action. How can I help? What is relevant about my schoolwork or ...
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Research Symposium is ON!
My favorite part of any normal spring is getting to see all the ways that students celebrate the fruition of ...
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