Tufts Collaborates!

The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the recipients of the Tufts Collaborates! seed grant program. Introduced in December 2010, Tufts Collaborates! seeks to encourage the essential first steps in interdisciplinary collaboration by supporting new faculty pilot projects that engage at least two disciplines and cross institutional lines. The goal of this program is to establish collaborative research efforts that will likely result in competitive research proposals to federal and foundation granting agencies.

Successful applicants were chosen through a peer review process including faculty and administrative staff, and based on several criteria including degree of innovation and collaboration, potential for external funding, likelihood for sustainability and impact, and viability within departmental, school and/or programmatic frameworks. Grants provide up to $50,000 in research support.

The deadline for the next proposal submission is January 27, 2012.
Notification of awards will be by March 30, 2012.

Click here for the required Submission Form and the Guidelines for Tufts Collaborates!

Title	Project Members	Representing
Advancing disaster research with geospatial new media	Laurie Gaskins Baise, Remco Chang, Peter Walker, Patrick Webb, Barbara Parmenter, Patrick Florance, and Rosalind Sewell	Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, the Friedman School, Urban and Environmental Policy & Planning, and UIT
Data processing in a dense wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring	Babak Moaveni and Usman Khan	Civil & Environmental Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Development of an oral reservoir targeted vaccine for Lyme disease	Linden Hu and Qiaobing Xu	Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Development of Bacillus subtilis spore vaccines expressing enterovirus 71 VP1 or H5n1/H1N1 hemagglutinin	Saul Tzipori, Abraham Sonenshein, Xu Bingling, Donna Akiyoshi, and Yi Guan	Biomedical Sciences at the Cummings School and Microbiology
The effects of low frequency magnetic fields on neurotransmitter exocytosis in real time	Emmanuel Pothos, Sameer Sonkusale, and Alexei Degterev	Molecular Physiology & Pharmacology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biochemistry
A framework for water and health partnerships	Elena Naumova, Richard Vogel, Honorine Ward, Jeffrey Griffiths, Paul Kirshen, and Richard Hooper	Civil & Environmental Engineering, Medicine, and Public Health & Community Medicine
Function and mechanisms of Dab2 in promoting squamous cell carcinoma tumor cell migration and invasion	Addy Alt-Holland and James Baleja	Endodontics and Biochemistry
Growth and electrical activity of neurons on patterned Au/Graphene substrates	Cristian Staii, Sameer Sonkusale, and David Kaplan	Physics & Astronomy, Electrical & Computer Engineering,, and Biomedical Engineering
Islam on the Indian Ocean Rim	Ayesha Jalal, Kris Manjapra, Vali Nasr, and Sugata Bose	History, Fletcher School, and Harvard University
Media aesthetics	Daniel Abramson, Peter Probst, Charles Inouye, Hosea Hirata, Joseph Auner, David Locke and Barbara Grossman	Art & Art History, GRALL, Music, and Drama & Dance
New materials for energy related applications	Georgios Kyriakou, Charles Sykes, and Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos	Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
NuBiotics: A novel class of antimicrobial compounds	Donna Akiyoshi, Stuart Levy, and Bonnie Marshall	Biomedical Sciences at the Cummings School, Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Photolysis-enabled color turning of novel fluorine copolymers for energy efficient solid state lighting and display applications	Matthew Panzer and Samuel Thomas	Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Probabilistic modeling of cell state transitions in cancer	Daniel Jay, Kyongbum Lee, and Donna Slonim	Molecular Physiology & Pharmacology, Chemical Engineering, and Computer Science
Regulation of engineered stem cell differentiation by mechanically defined culture systems	Catherine Kuo and Jonathan Garlick	Biomedical Engineering and Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology
Role of GCK in obesity associated inflammation and insulin resistance	Andrew Greenberg and John Kyriakis	HNRCA and Medicine
Transgenerational effects of adolescent morphine exposure on oxycodone self-administration	Elizabeth Byrnes and Klaus Miczek	Biomedical Sciences at the Cummings School and Psychology
University-municipal partnerships for children's school success: Evolving SomerPromise by bringing systems together through integrated data	Christine McWayne, Jayanthi Mistry, Jonathan Zaff, Doug Brugge, Laurel Leslie and Stephanie Hirsch	Child Development, Public Health & Community Medicine, TUSM, and the city of Somerville
Visualizing the circulation of ideas across language, culture and space: How researchers in the Middle East read Greek and invented the West	Gregory Crane, Remco Chang, Kenneth Garden, Malik Mufti, Kamran Rastegar, and Mingquan Wang	Classics, Computer Science, Religion, Political Science, and GRALL