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Faculty
Achievement: $386 million
Faculty excellence in teaching and research is the driving force behind the university’s esteemed reputation. Faculty achievements attract the best and brightest students as well as other scholars, and their discoveries are leading to wide-ranging improvements in the well-being of people and animals around the world.
| 80,959 | Square footage devoted to new lab space since the start of the campaign |
| 451 | Invention disclosures from across the university during the campaign period |
| 425 | Undergraduate/faculty pairs funded to conduct research in all disciplines |
| 52 | Tisch College Faculty Fellows who provide leadership in active citizenship teaching and research across the university |
| 32 | Faculty from six Tufts schools affiliated with Water: Systems, Science, and Society, an interdisciplinary graduate program created to address the complexities of managing this vital, but increasingly scarce, natural resource |
| 23 | Named professorships established university-wide |
| 7 | Percentage increase in the number of tenured and tenure-eligible faculty university-wide during the campaign |
| 3 | School of Engineering faculty who won early career awards in 2010 from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy for promising research on superconducting materials, near infrared spectroscopy, and nanotechnology |
Pay It Forward
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The Secret Pioneer
Endowed professorship honors pioneer for lifetime of achievements and top-secret missions
The Human Brain
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