Science, Technology, and Policy – Forging Links to Improve Water Resources

Disaster, Conflict, Hunger: Another Day As a Researcher of Complex Emergencies

Shafiqul Islam, ScD, joined Tufts in 2004 as a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also the Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Engineering and the associate dean for research at the School of Engineering. Islam received his BS in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, his MS in environmental engineering from the University of Maine, and his ScD in hydrology and water resources from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While a member of the civil and environmental engineering faculty of the University of Cincinnati from 1991 to 2004, Islam honed his skills in hydroclimatology, hydrometerology, remote sensing, and scale issues. (more)

Daniel Maxwell, PhD, joined Tufts in 2006 as an associate professor at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and as research director for food security and complex emergencies in the Feinstein International Center. He is working to bring rigorous scientific principles to research areas involving people affected by complex emergencies and the humanitarian agencies that assist them. Maxwell received his PhD in development studies/sociology of economic change from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1995. He pursued postdoctoral work on urban livelihoods, food security and nutrition before joining the CARE East Africa Regional Management Unit, where he held positions as food security advisor, regional program coordinator, and deputy regional director. (more)

Manipulating Light

Bioengineering New Teeth

Pamela Yelick, PhD, joined Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 2006. She is director of the Division of Craniofacial and Molecular Genetics in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and is a member of the Sackler School’s Genetics Program and its Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology Program. Yelick’s research group investigates development and regeneration in craniofacial cartilage, bone, and teeth by taking two different but complementary approaches: using zebrafish as a genetic and development model and using postnatal dental progenitor cells for whole-tooth tissue engineering. (more)