Sponsored Awards

Tufts University faculty routinely receive sponsored awards that facilitate their search for solutions to some of the greatest challenges that we face. Each month, we share information about some of these awards to show the extent—and prospective impact—of Tufts research.

September 2024 Selected Awards

  • Agricultural adaptation: Scaling-up the adoption of rainwater harvesting techniques

    Total Anticipated

    $950,000

    Principal Investigator

    Jenny Aker

    Sponsor

    U.S. Agency for International Development

  • American Mosaic: the social identities that define our politics and a path to bridge the divide

    Total Anticipated

    $199,293

    Principal Investigator

    Brian Schaffner

    Sponsor

    Carnegie Corporation of New York

  • Collaborative Research: Adaptation of Poor Populations to Heightened Flood Incidence: Research Studies Using Satellite Data and Experimental Evaluations of Early Warning System

    Total Anticipated

    $54,800

    Principal Investigator

    Maulik Jagnani

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: CIRC: New: MemSysExplorer: Community Tools and Interfaces for Exploring and Evaluating Next-Generation Memory Systems

    Total Anticipated

    $1,772,466

    Principal Investigator

    Mark Hempstead

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: HCC: Medium: Designing Social Robots to Promote Equity in Collaborative Teams

    Total Anticipated

    $499,987

    Principal Investigator

    Elaine Short

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Meaningful Failure: Transforming Academic Structures and Incentives through Personalization in Engineering Education

    Total Anticipated

    $191,657

    Principal Investigator

    Trevion Henderson

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Collaborative Research: NeTS: Medium: Design and Algorithms for Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for sub-THz Wireless Networks

    Total Anticipated

    $300,377

    Principal Investigator

    Mai Vu

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Combining Nonequilibrium Chemistries with Atomic Precision

    Total Anticipated

    $1,075,000

    Principal Investigator

    E. Charles Sykes

    Sponsor

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research

  • Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US) - Antero Mejr

    Total Anticipated

    $159,000

    Principal Investigator

    Jeffrey Foster

    Sponsor

    National Science Foundation

  • Contract #INTF2400HH2241733591

    Total Anticipated

    $149,700

    Principal Investigator

    Thomas Stopka

    Sponsor

    Massachusetts Department of Public Health