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Opportunity Topic Faculty Affiliation
Development and Optimization of Scalable Silk Solution Manufacturing Process     Altman, Greg      
Environmental Monitoring Validation and Optimization     Altman, Greg      
photography & oral history     Angier, Roswell      
GIS Earthquake Ground Motions in Kobe, Japan     Baise, Laurie      
Health and Development Economics     Balan-Cohen, Andreea      
New Directions in Solid Phase Carbohydrate Synthesis     Bennett, Clay      
New Technologies and Civic Engagement     Bers, Marina      
dietary antioxidants and aging     Blumberg, Jeffrey      
Gamma oscillations and synaptic plasticity     Borgers, Christoph      
T Cell Signal Transduction: Mapping domains of SLP-76 critical for T cell activation     Bunnell, Stephen      
Revolutionary Boston     Carp, Benjamin      
Regulation of Vascular Cell-Specific Functions on Silk-Based Structures     Castellot, John      
Fiber Optic Redox Sensors     Chudyk, Wayne      
neurotensin stimulation of leptin secretion from human mast cells     Cochrane, David      
Using Evolutionary Information to Understand Flu Strains     Cowen , Lenore      
Christianity and Psychology in America     Curtis, Heather      
Emotional Availability in Mother-Child Interactions     Easterbrooks, Ann      
The Global 1930s     Ekbladh, David      
Art worlds and social networks     Ennis, James      
Compulsive buying in opioid dependent patients     Fantini, Sergio      
Ras proteins in cancer and neuroscience     Feig, Larry      
therapeutic targets in nematode parasites     fuhrman, juliet      
Neutrino Interactions at Fermilab     Gallagher, Hugh      
non-invasive assessment of stem cell differentiation     Georgakoudi, Irene      
non-invasive characterization of biomineralization     Georgakoudi, Irene      
Humor in Children's Animated Television     Gidney, Calvin      
Case studies on Entrepreneurs     Goldberg, Pamela      
Imagining Security: Fiction, "Social Facts" and the Construction of Political Reality     Greenhill, Kelly      
Creating a Festival Almanac for Massachusetts     Guss, David      
Assessing Impact of Mining in Ghana: Looking Through a Regulatory and Community Lens     Gute, David      
Novel BioDiesel Purification Scheme     Gyure, Dale      
Dietary intervention to treat elevated triglycerides in individuals living with HIV infection.     Hendricks, Kristy      
Molecular and cellular regulation of angiogenesis and wound healing     Herman, Ira      
FIgurality and the Development of Modern Consciousness     Inouye, Charles      
Brain measurement in Human Computer Interaction     Jacob, Robert      
Tikhonov Regularization for Stabilizing the Portfolio Asset Allocation Problem     Kilmer, Misha      
Nationalism in Interwar Japan     Leupp, Gary      
Queer Theory and the Novel     Litvak, Joseph      
Passive Cooling of Photovoltaic Arrays for Enhanced Efficiency     Manno, Vincent      
Organ formation: creating embryonic tissues and organs during development     McLaughlin, Kelly      
Food Prices and Poverty in Africa     Mcmillan, Margaret      
DNA double-strand break repair in Drosophila     McVey, Mitch      
social stress and drug addiction     Miczek, Klaus      
behavioral neurobiology of aggressive behavior     Miczek, Klaus      
DNA repeats and human disease     Mirkin, Sergei      
Navigating Across Cultures     Mistry, Jayanthi      
Visualization of High Energy Collisions in the ATLAS Detector at the CERN LHC     Napier, Austin      
Identification of Host Cell Receptors for Cryptosporidium Invasion     O'Connor, Roberta      
Identification of Host Cell Receptors for Cryptosporidium Invasion     O'Connor, Roberta      
Signal Processing Algorithms     Panetta, Karen      
Play Attention: A non-pharmacological intervention for AD     Perrin, Ellen      
Bacterial Production of Therapeutic Compounds     Pfeifer, Blaine      
Fundamental Analysis of Complex Natural Product Biosynthesis     Pfeifer, Blaine      
Sustainable Cities in the US     Portney, Kent      
Ring Actuators for Soft Robots     Rife, Jason      
EcoBank, a West African Regional Bank: Impacts and Effects on Banking in Senegal     Robinson, Pearl      
research on emotions     rothbaum, fred      
"Outsourcing Reproductive Labour"     Roy, Modhumita      
The Role of Heliox in management of respiratory distress     Rozanski, Elizabeth      
Racial Norms and Social Perception     Sommers, Samuel      
Wearable Health Monitor     Sonkusale, Sameer      
Electric Field Assisted Assembly of Carbon Nanotubes     Sonkusale, Sameer      
Unwanted societies on Darwin’s Islands: Invasive wasps in the Galápagos     Starks, Philip      
Waste reuse     Swan, Chris      
aging/cell biology/ophthalmology/nutrition research     Taylor, Allen      
Experiments in surface resistivity     Tobin, Roger      
Baseball Aerodynamics     Tobin, Roger      
Adsorption on Metallic Quantum Wells     Tobin, Roger      
jazz history     Ullman, MIchael      
Neuroscience     Vetter, Douglas      
Hanzi Online: A Web-based Tutoring Program on Chinese Characters     Wang, Mingquan      
Sjogren's Syndrome     Zoukhri, Driss      
Green Jobs and the Green Economy in Boston     Agyeman, Julian     Arts and Sciences
Storytelling in the Arab World: Spaces of Arab & American Dialogue     Bishara, Amahl     Arts and Sciences
Hydrodynamic Turbulence     Boghosian, Bruce     Arts and Sciences
Climate Change, Climate Justice Movement     Bryan, Dale     Arts and Sciences
Music and Youth Development     Camara, Kathleen     Arts and Sciences
Ecology: Native insect adapting to invasive plant     Chew, Francie     Arts and Sciences
Ecology: Nutrition & Sexual Selection     Chew, Francie     Arts and Sciences
Ecology: Latent Effects of Nutrient Stress on Plant Reproduction and Defense     Chew, Francie     Arts and Sciences
Antebellum American Print Culture     Clytus, Radiclani     Arts and Sciences
Parts, Differences, and Statues     Denby, David     Arts and Sciences
Images of Anarchy     Evrigenis, Ioannis     Arts and Sciences
Instability of repetitive DNA     Freudenreich, Catherine     Arts and Sciences
New Models of College Application and Choice     Garman, David     Arts and Sciences
The Literature of Fantasy     Hofkosh, Sonia     Arts and Sciences
A Feminist Analysis of Jewelry and Ornamentation     Hutaff, Peggy     Arts and Sciences
Asthma treatment communication     Irwin, Kevin     Arts and Sciences
Art History and Buddhism     Kaminishi, Ikumi     Arts and Sciences
Environmental determinants of body image     Kanarek, Robin     Arts and Sciences
Radical Feminism Archive Project     Kelly, Erin     Arts and Sciences
Multidimensional Fluorescence Spectroscopy     Kenny, Jonathan     Arts and Sciences
Simulation tools for biological tissues     MacLachlan, Scott     Arts and Sciences
Dutch 17thC painting     McClellan, Andrew     Arts and Sciences
Web Interface Research     Pickering, Melissa     Arts and Sciences
Historical biographical research     Sauer, Anne     Arts and Sciences
Looking for extra dimensions with Large Hadron Collider     Sliwa, Krzysztof     Arts and Sciences
The Socio-cultural Aspects of Care     Sprague Martinez, Linda     Arts and Sciences
Institutions and economic growth     Tan, Chih Ming     Arts and Sciences
International aid and economic growth     Tan, Chih Ming     Arts and Sciences
"Pandemic preparedness": national borders and social imagination     Taylor, Rosemary     Arts and Sciences
Automatic and Controlled Processes in Elderly Decision Making     Thomas, Ayanna     Arts and Sciences
Neuromechanics of Soft Bodied Locomotion     Trimmer, Barry     Arts and Sciences
Contemporary Art and Global Interractions     Zavala, Adriana     Arts and Sciences
Air Pollution Monitoring     Durant, John     Engineering
The Towers of William J. LeMessurier     Hines, Eric     Engineering
Transgenic Plant Spider Silk for Composite Biomaterials     Kaplan, David     Engineering
Transdifferentiation of Stem Cells for Tissue Engineering     Kaplan, David     Engineering
Stem Cell Differentiation     Kuo, Catherine     Engineering
Stem Cell Differentiation     Kuo, Catherine     Engineering
Engineering a Biomimetic Snail     Leisk, Gary     Engineering
Image segmentation     Miller, Eric     Engineering
Photonic crystal fiber supercontinuum studies     Omenetto, Fiorenzo     Engineering
Replacement addictions in opioid dependent patients     Omenetto, Fiorenzo     Engineering
Engineering for the non-engineer     Rogers, Chris     Engineering
Do the new Tech Suits actually reduce drag on swimmers?     Rogers, Chris     Engineering
Acoustic Holography on Violins     Rogers, Chris     Engineering
Solar Cell Concentrator     Vandervelde, Thomas     Engineering
Thermophotovoltaic Thermal Simulator     Vandervelde, Thomas     Engineering
Active Cochlear Model     White, Robert     Engineering
Microfluidic Fabrication of Catalytically Active Viral-Synthetic Microparticles     Yi, Hyunmin     Engineering
Legal Argumentation in International Organizations     Jonstone, Ian     Fletcher School
Immunology     Huber, Brigitte     Medical School
State Security and Population Health     Hyatt, Raymond     Medical School
synaptic function and plasticity     Jacob, michele     Medical School
Improving Access to and Utilization of Early Intervention Services for Foster Children     Leslie, Laurel     Medical School
Drug Resistance     Levy, Stuart     Medical School
Bacterial Pathogenesis     Mecsas, Joan     Sackler School
Brain basis of human vision, learning, and memory     Schendan, Haline     Tufts University
Developing a Peptide Therapeutic as a Treatment for Obesity     Kopin, Alan     Tufts-New England Medical Center
Vascular Biology Research     Mendelsohn, Michael     Tufts-New England Medical Center
Computer-based attention training systems for children with ADHD: non-pharmacological intervention for children with ADHD     Steiner, Naomi     Tufts-New England Medical Center
Clinical research in the field of probiotics     Sydman, David     Tufts-New England Medical Center
Clinical research on antibiotic resistance and utilization     Sydman, David     Tufts-New England Medical Center
Behavioral Neuroscience     Mann, Phyllis     Veterinary Medicine
 

 

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