Tufts freshman Lydia Collins lived in a family in Ecuador from August until April as part of a gap year program. “I did a program called Global citizen year. The program puts kids in Ecuador, Brazil and Senegal. I wanted to go to Ecuador because I wanted to improve my Spanish.” Tufts’ 4+1 program to […]
Written by Claire Forgan, Tufts University ’16 “We went to China because of the collaborative effort [on titanium dioxide].” Josh Golubovsky, a sophomore at Tufts University, talks about his research with Jordin Metz on water purification and his opportunity to go to China. “I’m working on the production of [titanium dioxide]. I’m working on trying […]
Written by Claire Forgan, Tufts University ’16 Kit McDonnell is a sophomore at Tufts University that engages in various types of research every summer in Chicago. “I’ve been working in a genetics lab in a natural history museum, Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, for the last three summers,” she says. “I love that there […]
Written by Claire Forgan, Tufts University ’16 Tufts University undergraduate and Chemistry major Jordin Metz is engaged in laboratory research on innovative water decontamination methods. “The project I’m working on is called the TI02 project, [which is] titanium dioxide. The goal of this project is water purification,” says Jordin. Titanium dioxide, he explains, is a […]
Picture courtesy of Leah Muskin-Pierret. William Beckham is participating in the New Initiative for Middle East Peace (NIMEP) at Tufts. NIMEP is a non-polemical student think-tank and outreach initiative aimed at finding progressive solutions to the historic conflicts in the Middle East. The program sponsor is Institute for Global Leadership (IGL). They sponsor a number of […]
Are leaders born or made? Researchers at the US Military Academy at West Point studied brain scans of 103 volunteers, ranging in rank from officer cadet to major. The researchers claim that they found neural networks of those deemed “leaders” that were different from the rest. The study was published in the Journal of Applied […]
Our newest #Research Superstar is from Tufts University! Sara Khosrowjerdi is a sophomore majoring in Biochemistry and minoring in English. She has been doing research since her freshman year in Professor Joshua Kritzer’s lab in the chemistry department on projects involving synthesis of bicyclic peptides to target protein-protein interactions and synthesis of amino acids […]
Project Lever is rolling out a new blog feature! In addition to #ResearchSuperstars, we will be writing about the conferences where undergraduate students may exhibit their research. We are big fans not only of doing research but also showing it to the world. Get these poster sessions going! We’ll call it #LeverConferences. Make sure to […]
