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Winners chosen for the 2018 Gordon Institute $100k New Ventures competition by Noah Richter Staff Writer
The winners of the Tufts Gordon Institute’s annual $100k New Ventures Competition were chosen last night, from 18 finalists competing in three tracks, as part of a two-day event intended to promote entrepreneurial advancement at Tufts. Tufts-affiliated companies ZwitterCo and Ginger Time were the joint winners in the General/High-Tech track. ZwitterCo, which markets itself as a company that produces nanofiltration membranes to improve water recycling, and GingerTime, a company that sells shots with ginger juice and vitamins, won the largest prize in their track, valuing more than $30,000. Cathbuddy, a venture centered around a portable handheld UV-C catheter sterilizer that aims to allow people using catheters to lessen their environmental impact and regain agency and mobility, was the winner in the MedTech and Life Sciences track. VASERA Male Contraceptives, which works on a hydrogel-based contraceptive, was the runner-up of the Medtech and Life Sciences track, and the winner of the Ricci prize, totaling $10,000. Finally, Apollo Agriculture, a company focused on increasing profits for smallholder farmers, won the Social Impact track. The two-part event on Wednesday, April 4 and Thursday, April 5, hosted by the Gordon Institute’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies (ELS) Program, is an annual competition offering prizes amounting to $100,000 altogether and an opportunity for Tuftsaffiliated startups to promote their companies while capitalizing on potential investors and business experts offering advice and mentorship, the website says. The participants entered their companies into one of three tracks — Social Impact, Medtech & Life Sciences, and General/High-Tech — in the hopes of being selected as one of the 18 finalists and ultimately getting a chance to compete for cash prizes. Tina Weber, the coordinator of this year’s event, explained the process applicants went through during the event. “Obviously the winning teams benefit from the prizes, both cash as well as services. However, all teams that [enter] the competition also get the benefit of experience in writing a business plan, in developing an investor pitch, in developing financial projections, and numerous other skills,” Weber wrote in an email to the Daily.
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Jack Derby poses for a portrait in the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex on March 7. The annual competition, which drew over 110 submissions from alumni, undergraduate and graduate students and faculty across all seven colleges in the university, showcases the leading innovations across the Tufts community while offering monetary prizes and in-service amenities. “The Tufts $100k New Ventures Competition aims to spotlight and showcase all the exciting innovation and entrepreneurial activities in the greater Tufts community,” Weber said. But the two-day event — full of presentations, business pitches and lectures — proved to be the real draw for all involved. The event featured presentations from the 18 competition finalists, speakers from across the Tufts alumni community and a keynote speech by Jamie Turner, an author, speaker and CEO of 60SecondMarketer.com. Jamie Turner, the keynote speaker, focused on what he has learned in his experiences selling products, sharing anecdotes
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to elucidate the experience of marketing. He spoke about the value the $100k event brings to the entire Tufts community. “The exchange of knowledge is important. In an environment like this it can get more granular and personal,” Turner said in an interview with the Daily. “It’s one thing to hear a lecture, it’s another thing to talk to people and then have those exchange of ideas.” Of the alumni judges attending the event were Stephen Remondi (E ’87), who sold his company Exa Corporation for $400 million in a deal last year; Ben Carson Jr. (LA ’07), co-founder of Interprise Partners; Josh Goldman (LA ’88), who has generated billions of dollars in exit valuations as a partner with Norwest Ventures; Jordan Kievelstadt (E ’04), CEO of Free Flow Wines; Michael Doyle (LA ’05), President and CEO of QPID Health; and Bonnie Schnitta (J ’78), president of SoundSense and numerous patent holder in Acoustic technologies.
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Jack Derby, director of the ELS program at Tufts and professor of the practice at the Gordon Institute, explained the many ways in which the event fosters benefits for all involved beyond the monetary prizes. “We’re birthing companies. We [at the ELS Program] and other schools in the university know this is more important than the money … It’s really about the connections and the experience,” Derby said. “If you have connections and experience, the money will follow. So what we have here is a tremendous amount of connections, in professors, the administration, alumni, in board members and experiences for these teams to be exposed to.” Many individuals at the event expressed similar sentiments. Josh Kapelman (LA ’12), one of the many ELS board members who attended the event, related how the competition and ensuing events provide everyone with great opportunities. see NEW VENTURES COMPETITION, page 2
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“Everyone’s getting something different out of this. In the big picture, this event is really here to highlight the entrepreneurial scene at Tufts … but more importantly to provide connections,” Kapelman said. “If you’re a student presenting here tonight, you’re meeting people who are willing to open up their network and work with you.” Individuals from several of the companies involved raved about the experience that the $100k New Ventures Competition was providing them with. Daniel Weinstein, a senior and a member of UCHU BioSensors, a team that won
the ELS program’s Stephen and Geraldine Ricci Interdisciplinary Prize in 2017, talked about the value he sees in the $100k competition. “It’s an opportunity to … receive comprehensive feedback from accomplished judges, make valuable connections with business people in the Boston area, and experience the amazing entrepreneurial community at Tufts,” Weinstein said. “It’s not surprising, but the quality of the other teams in the competition is truly incredible.” Sohail Ali (F ’19) particpated as one of the team members of EDKASA, a venture which “makes ‘rock star’ teachers accessible to secondary students in Pakistan at an affordable cost” and won the Fletcher D-Prize. He
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New summer programs provide more research opportunities for undergraduates
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Tufts prides itself on being a distinguished research university, providing students with opportunities to apply what they have learned in the classroom to the real world. This year, in addition to the already established university-wide Summer Scholars program, a few new programs have been created to further this tradition. These programs are the Visiting and Early Research Scholar Experience (VERSE) Program, Global Research Assistant Program (GRAP) and the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Program. According to the program brochure and the Office of the Provost, VERSE is a research program targeted toward low-income students of color, primarily in the fields of biology, mathematics, psychology, education and child study and human development. VERSE aims to connect students to faculty mentors with active research labs and provide students with handson research training. GRAP, according to the program website, is an international research program sponsored by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Career Center, Summer Scholars Program, the Institute for Global Leadership and the Office of the Provost. Senior International Officer and Associate Provost Diana Chigas spoke to why GRAP was created. “There have always been great summer research opportunities at Tufts, but we wanted to look at where the gaps were,” Chigas said. “We noticed there was a lot of opportunity for independent undergraduate research, but there was not a whole of a chance for undergrads to work on faculty research.” Enter GRAP, where students accepted will have the financial support to participate in international research led by Tufts faculty members. This summer, there are six international projects in a wide range of disci-
plines located in Costa Rica, Argentina and Chile, Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Uganda and India. “We don’t want to confine it to one discipline,” Chigas said. “We want to give students a wide range of experiences to choose from.” Amy Pickering, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is leading the project in India. The project, which involves collaboration with Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, involves using a new gene sequencing technology called MinION to monitor antimicrobial resistance. “We are using the [MinION] device to analyze DNA extracted from water samples and other types of samples to looks for genes that have been associated with antimicrobial resistance,” Pickering said. Pickering reviewed four applications for the research assistant position and decided to choose first-year Elana Chan because of her prior experience. In addition to Chan, a postdoctoral researcher and a Ph.D. student from Christian Medical College will also be involved in the project. “[Chan] had some coding experience and wet lab experience, as well as prior interest in anti-microbial resistance,” Pickering said. Chan, an environmental engineering major, heard about the program through the Jumbo Digest weekly newsletter. She is very excited to start the research in the summer. “As a first-year, I have been inspired by some of the work my professors are doing, and this project combines a lot of my interests in biology, public health, environmental engineering and data analysis,” Chan said. According to Pickering, Chan will be traveling with the team to India for eight weeks over the summer. She will be helping with extracting DNA, collecting samples, as well as data processing and analysis. Pickering, who is in her first year working at Tufts, is a big proponent of getting undergraduates involved in research.
“There is a lot of evidence showing that research experiences early on in STEM fields can contribute to students persisting in those fields because it allows them to understand how what they are learning can actually be applied in real life,” she said. Chigas spoke to how she thought GRAP can become a successful program. “I am hoping that GRAP is something that will be able to continue to
“The program is designed to provide younger undergraduates with two years of summer support to do a research project with a faculty mentor,” Associate Provost Dawn Geronimo Terkla said. According to Terkla, Tufts received funding this year for 75 students to take advantage of the program over the next few years. She added that of the 40 applications reviewed, 25 students were selected for this summer. Terkla was very impressed by all of the applications. “The scope of projects students are interested in is just enormous,” she said. “People are proposing really interesting things.” In addition to the research, the Laidlaw program also emphasizes a leadership component, according to its website. The selected Laidlaw Scholars will participate in workshops, trainings and retreats to develop their leadership capabilities. There will also be opportunities for the Laidlaw Scholars to get together over the summer, as they pursue their independent research projects. Terkla noted that there would be some improvisation with the structure of the program in its first year. “We are building this airplane as we are flying along,” Terkla said. “I am very excited about this program and I hope it will be a resounding success.” Terkla envisions that the research that Laidlaw Scholars conduct over the summer can form the basis of future research as well.
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“If you are a sophomore, you can think about research for the summer and then refine it as a junior. Then as a senior, you would be poised to do a senior honors thesis,” she said. “I would be delighted if even one person took it all the way to be a senior honors thesis, but it is not a requirement.” Although Terkla acknowledges the presence of these new programs, she underlined that research has always been an important part of the undergraduate experience at Tufts. “I do not think that there has been any shift,” Terkla said. “Having undergraduates doing research has been a part of the culture for a very long time.”
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On March 18, 1990, 13 highly valuable paintings were stolen from the frames of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in what remains the largest unsolved art theft in history. While the paintings still remain at large, Boston museum tech company Cuseum has offered an interesting fix using augmented reality technology. In a project called “Hacking the Heist,” Cuseum has experimented with augmented reality in an effort to restore the paintings, using the technology to put the artwork back in the frames using a mobile device. The Cuseum team has successfully recreated two paintings with this technology and may experiment more with the project in the future. The company is also working on other projects using augmented reality technology to make the museum experience as interactive as possible. The Daily had the opportunity to talk to Brendan Ciecko, founder and CEO of Cuseum, about “Hacking the Heist” and Cuseum’s other projects, as well as the future of augmented reality technology and tips for young Tufts students interested in the world of technology. Tufts Daily (TD): What exactly took place during the heist 28 years ago, and how did that serve as an inspiration for “Hacking the Heist”? Brendan Ciecko (BC): So as you might know, 28 years ago the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum had 13 significant works stolen from its collection. This is the largest unsolved art theft in history of its kind in the world. So, for those who lived in Boston or grew up in the area, many are familiar with the story. It’s something that my team, visit after visit to the museum, would talk about and think about, but it wasn’t until recently after completing some preliminary augmented reality-based experiments at the office that a member of my team said, “You know
what’d be really interesting? To put the stolen art back into the frames of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.” TD: How exactly does augmented reality work with this project? BC: We’ve been experimenting with Apple’s ARKit, which is a developer framework that promotes an advanced augmented reality toolkit, so to speak. In their latest release, they made available some new capabilities. Now, your phone has the ability to detect not only horizontal surfaces but vertical surfaces, like walls that have paintings on them for instance, as well as images. So we’re able to leverage those capabilities to detect the space around and layer in the paintings that would have otherwise been on display at the museum. All the user would need to do is lift up their phone and the magic happens. TD: To my knowledge, you’ve started out by recreating two of the paintings; is the ultimate goal restoring all 13 for the museum? BC: Our first tests were basically going through and seeing if this even works and to push the technology to its limit in a space that’s dimly lit and has all sorts of different optical challenges. Since then, we’ve been talking amongst ourselves to see if it makes sense to approach the remaining 11 works or just focus on one of the galleries, but that’s all to be determined. TD: So for now, what has the response been like with the two pieces you’ve done so far? BC: Even in the basic instances of going to the museum and testing it out, people would surround us and ask us, “Are we seeing what we think we’re seeing?”, “How are you doing this?” and “What’s going on?” People would come up and say things like, “Woah, I didn’t realize that’s what the stolen paintings looked like,” so if they weren’t amazed by the technical capabili-
ties of seeing the stolen paintings back in its frame, they were mesmerized by things like, “Wow, that’s what the painting looked like; I had no idea.” So, on both sides, it’s been interesting to see people respond to being able to see something that doesn’t typically exist anymore in that space. TD: Do you envision being able to get to the point where anyone would be able to come in and use the technology to see the paintings? BC: That remains to be determined. We haven’t really laid any concrete plans around making this publicly available in the App Store, so it’s something that may or may not surface beyond the experimental stage. There has been a huge swirl of interest around the project both locally and internationally. It’s been interesting to see the conversations that have been started, whether or not it becomes something everyone can use on their visits. TD: For the immediate future, what do you and your team want to work on with the augmented reality technology or just in general? BC: We’re in the process of launching a new way to experience a museum, so as part of that we have five or six institutions around the country that are piloting this new technology that potentially annotates the gallery around you, so if you walk into the museum, every object and painting has a little pop-up that you can interact with to to access more audio and text. We’ll be rolling that out in the upcoming weeks, so we’re pretty excited about it in particular. TD: Looking ahead to the next 10 to 20 years, what do you foresee with augmented reality technology and its capabilities down the road? BC: In terms of 10 or 20 years, the way that we have historically accessed information has changed very quickly. Today, one could argue that your phone is your
new interface to accessing information, and some of the things you’re hearing people talk about is how voice is the next interface with which we interact with the world around us. Something that’s interesting from a technology perspective is down the road, and there are some companies right now experimenting with it, is being able to control computing experiences using your brain. There is a company right here in Boston called Neurable, and they’re basically making a way for your brain to control what you see on the screen, so examples like that will likely become more common down the road. TD: For any young computer science/ engineering majors or anyone interested in working in technology here at Tufts, what should they take away from projects like “Hacking the Heist”? BC: I think it’s about experimenting as much as humanly possible and putting out whatever you’re working on. A lot of people, especially in startup communities, there’s a phrase: “stealth mode.” So, breaking through the idea of stealth mode and showing people what you’re working on and talking about it and reaching out to people is crucial. The beautiful thing here is that we actually had some people with Tufts affiliation working on this project with us. Someone who was involved with some of the testing went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and we have a Tufts computer science major whose been helping with some of the testing as well. So, from a general perspective, it’s about experimentation. There’s so much innovation happening in Boston that if I were a Tufts student, I would be reaching out out to all of these cool companies and showing them all of the interesting things I’ve been working on and starting a conversation that way. Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
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Tufts seeks revenge against fourth-ranked Wesleyan by Julia Atkins Staff Writer
The Tufts men’s lacrosse team will face off against Wesleyan at Bello Field on Saturday for the teams’ first matchup of the 2018 season. Last year, the team from Middletown, Conn. defeated the Jumbos three times. With Tufts (8–0) currently ranked third in Div. III and Wesleyan (8–1) right behind them at No. 4, the game is bound to be neck-and-neck. The Jumbos have amassed 137 goals this season, averaging more than 17 per game, while the Cardinals (113 goals) are averaging over 13 per game. In their 2017 season, Tufts got off to a promising start with a 11–0 record. The team then dropped four close games to conference opponents to close out its regular season schedule with a 6–4 NESCAC record. In the Jumbos’ contest against the Cardinals on April 22, they were edged 17–16. Tufts’ second clash with Wesleyan came in the semifinals of the NESCAC tournament, where the team lost 17–12. Then, in the Jumbos’ third and final matchup of the 2017 season, the Cardinals took a 17–8 victory in the third round of the NCAA
tournament ending the Jumbos’ season. Tufts finished with a 13–6 overall record after losing six of its last eight games — including three to their rivals from central Connecticut. The Jumbos have been preparing for their chance at revenge all year and are very excited to finally take on the Cardinals. “We feel really confident going into this game,” senior midfielder and co-captain Cam Irwin said. “I honestly didn’t know what they were ranked. We don’t look at rankings often because what matters is how we play our game. Our offense and defense always come out strong and play to the best of their ability. We’re just excited to get out there and play them. We’ve been waiting 12 months for this game, and finally it’s here.” Tufts and Wesleyan have been on fire this season, with both in the midst of multi-game winning streaks. On Wednesday night, Wesleyan barely defeated No. 7 Amherst, 12–11, taking home Little Three honors for the second straight season. The same night, Tufts won 11–8 at Williams, marking its eighth consecutive win to start the season.
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Members of the Tufts men’s lacrosse team listen to assistant coach John Uppgren during a timeout in the team’s 11–8 win against Conn. College on March 31. The Jumbos have been working very hard to get to where they are now in their season and feel prepared to take on a competitor of the Cardinals’ caliber. “I think we spent a long time over the summer reflecting on how the Wesleyan games ended up and how we, individually
and as a team, played in those games,” Irwin said. “I think we are more prepared mentally for this game than we were for our three matchups last year.” The Jumbos will seek to flip the script and avenge last year’s losses to the Cardinals on Saturday at 1 p.m.
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After months of preparation, Tufts crew teams begin new season at home by Bradley Schussel Sports Editor
It has been about five months since the Tufts men’s and women’s crew teams have taken part in any competition, as their fall seasons ended in late October. The teams will kick off their spring seasons this weekend, with both hosting regattas on the Malden River in Medford, Mass. The weekend will feature action on Saturday and Sunday for both the men and the women. The men’s team will host Coast Guard, Middlebury and Williams on Saturday. The regatta will feature what the rowers call a “double dual,” in which the teams compete in a round-robin tournament — the winner is determined by which team has the most victories by the end of the competition. The following day, Amherst and UMass will challenge Tufts’ rowers on the Malden River. Sunday will be a more typical regatta, with each team racing twice against the other two schools. The men’s team is coming off a fall season during which it participated in four regattas — one of which was the Head of the Charles, perhaps the world’s most famous crew event. Racing in the men’s collegiate eight on the Charles River, the Jumbos’ boat placed 35th with an adjusted time of 16:06 (the team was penalized one minute for knocking oars with another boat). All-in-all, the Jumbos had a fairly successful fall season. Senior co-captain Andrew MacMillen was a large part of that success. The Hillsborough, Calif. native has been a captain of the team since his junior year. At the Head of the Fish on Oct. 28, the last regatta of the season, Macmillan finished second in the men’s single scull, giving the Jumbos their third straight top-three finish in that event. At the Green Mountain Head on Oct. 1, MacMillen finished in fifth place in the men’s single scull and second
place in the men’s double. According to MacMillen, despite the success he’s had so far, the spring season serves as a fresh start for the team after a long winter of training. “The two seasons are pretty distinct,” MacMillen said. “From Halloween until President’s Day, we were blacked out from having any coaching, so the seasons are their own separate bodies of work. Which I like, actually — it’s nice to be able to reset SOFIE HECHT / THE TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES over the course of The Tufts men’s crew team rows against Middlebury on Malden River on April 16, 2016. the winter and not have to think about anything you didn’t like from the fall.” facing off against Amherst and Smith on using heart rate as a measure of exercise (as MacMillen will be co-captaining the Sunday. All of the competition for the week- most schools do), the players use the lactic team this year alongside senior Tyler end will take place on the Malden River. acid content of their blood. The Weston, Hagedorn and junior Isaac Mudge. The women also sent rowers to the Mass. native commented further on her MacMillen and Hagedorn, as well as the Head of the Charles in October. The team’s brand of ‘smart’ training. team’s three other seniors, will be entering Jumbos’ boat placed 11th out of 26 teams “In a lot of programs, they have the their final rowing season with the Jumbos. in the women’s collegiate eights. Tufts fin- mentality of ‘more is more,’ meaning that “I’m both excited for and dreading ished seven seconds behind 10th-place more minutes at more power must be this season,” MacMillen said. “I’m excited Hamilton and three seconds ahead of better,” Lichter said. “But we’ve found that because, in my experience, every season 12th-place William Smith. isn’t necessarily the case — that it’s not has been better than the last. I’m hoping The co-captains for the Jumbos this year necessarily about training as hard as you for the best season we’ve had so far. But it will be seniors Emma Conroy and Annelise can for as long as you can, but rather is my last season. I really don’t want [my Ryan, as well as junior Libby Lichter. Conroy training as intelligently as you can with collegiate rowing career] to end just yet.” was the junior captain for the squad last year. the amount of time that you have.” The women’s team will have an opening Like the men’s team, women’s crew put The Jumbos are hoping their training weekend that nearly mirrors that of its male in several months of offseason training this regimen will give them an edge going counterpart. Tufts will host Coast Guard, winter. Lichter believes that her team trains into the spring season, which begins on Middlebury and Trinity on Saturday before very intelligently, noting that instead of Saturday at 9 a.m. for both teams.