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.

June 2026 Selected Awards

  • Defining Cognitive Mechanisms of Upper Limb Motor Recovery After Stroke

    Total Anticipated

    $81,892

    Principal Investigator

    Julie Dicarlo

    Sponsor

    National Institutes of Health

  • Deliberative Citizenship Network

    Total Anticipated

    $10,000

    Principal Investigator

    Jonathan Tirrell

    Sponsor

    Davidson College

  • Design, Fabrication, and Pilot Testing of OmniDockTM - A Modular Concrete Floating Dock for Domestic Manufacture, Assembly, Launch, and Retrieval of Floating Wind Turbines

    Total Anticipated

    $75,000

    Principal Investigator

    Daniel Kuchma

    Sponsor

    Sperra

  • Dissection of Shigella pathogenesis in vivo using a new oral infection mouse model

    Total Anticipated

    $165,000

    Principal Investigator

    Cammie Lesser

    Sponsor

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Draper Fellowship - Michaela Welch

    Total Anticipated

    $66,854

    Principal Investigator

    David Kaplan

    Sponsor

    The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

  • Draper Fellowship Peter Hsi

    Total Anticipated

    $66,854

    Principal Investigator

    David Kaplan

    Sponsor

    The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

  • Draper Fellowship-Timothy Cheng

    Total Anticipated

    $14,910

    Principal Investigator

    Robert White

    Sponsor

    The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

  • Draper Scholars Program - Halfhill AY26-27

    Total Anticipated

    $26,144

    Principal Investigator

    Mark Hertzberg

    Sponsor

    The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

  • ECONOMIC SHIELDS, PREVENTING CONFLICT DRIVEN EXPLOITATION THROUGH FINANCIAL PROTECTION IN NORTHERN KENYA

    Total Anticipated

    $10,000

    Principal Investigator

    Taina Mcfield

    Sponsor

    Middlebury College

  • Empowering PhD Students from Low and Middle-Income Countries: An Intensive Capacity Building Program for research on Structural Transformation and Economic Growth.

    Total Anticipated

    $133,562

    Principal Investigator

    Margaret McMillan

    Sponsor

    Centre for Economic Policy Research