The Sustainable Water Management (SWM) Master's Degree Program is an interdisciplinary experience, focused on addressing water-related problems domestically and internationally. This intensive 12-month program offers classes in a wide variety of departments such as Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy, Civil/Environmental Engineering, Economics, and Biology. After two semesters of course work, students complete a 10 week summer practicum in a water-related discipline of their choice.

SWM students come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds, ranging from environmental science to air pollution to law. Learn more about this year's impressive cohort below! To learn more about individual SWM students, click on their photos below.

Ashley Desrosiers	Nicolas Jimenez Parot
Fayia Kendor	Adam Lazarus
Natalie Riffel	Rajratna Sardar
Lydia Silber

The TIE Environmental Research Fellowship is a unique opportunity for students to pursue independent environmental research within their own area of interest. Students receive faculty mentorship from two separate departments in hopes of gaining an interdisciplinary perspective on their research topic. TIE Fellows receive up to $5,000 to support their research.

The current 2021-2022 cohort of 14 represents students from 6 Tufts graduate schools. Projects range from effects of pathogen spillover in California sea otters to a study of financing geothermal projects in Kenya and Ethiopia to the risk of agricultural desertification in the United States. To learn more about individual TIE Fellows, click on their links below.

Cassandra Bull Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “Comparative Analysis of School Food Local Purchasing Incentive Programs”	Sylvia Chen Graduate School of Engineering “An optogenetic and environmentally friendly approach for diabetic management”
Luciana D'Amone and Jeff Roshko Graduate School of Engineering “Recycled regenerated silk fibroin from textile waste for biomedical applications"	Nicholas Dorian Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “Do bees bet-hedge against a variable environment?”
Adam Eichenwald Graduate School of Arts and Sciences "Tracking the impact of keystone species extirpation on Mojave Desert community Biodiversity"	Susana Gonzalez Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine “Investigating the effects of nutrient dynamics on marine algae density at coastal waterways in Juneau, Alaska”
Alice Lau Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine “Ecological population modeling: Exploring the effects of pathogen spillover in California sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)”	Kazuki Motohashi  Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; The Fletcher School “Nudge and Diffusion of sustainable Latrines Usage in Rural India”
Seth Owusu-Mante The Fletcher School “Financing geothermal energy projects in Africa: Investor types and investment climate – A study of Kenya and Ethiopia”	Mustafa Ozgur Bozcaga Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; The Fletcher School “Yellow Vests and Green Taxes: The Impact of the French Carbon Tax on Capital Market Responses and Firm Performance”
Carolyn Pelnik Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; The Fletcher School “Natural Disaster Disruption of Microenterprise in India”	Marine Ricau Graduate School of Engineering “Evaluation of the effectiveness of fecal sludge dewatering geotextiles in humanitarian contexts”
Mary Buford Turnage Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine “The End of Agriculture: Analyzing the Risk for Agricultural Land Desertification in the Contiguous United States”

The Water: Systems, Science & Society (WSSS) graduate certificate is an interdisciplinary certificate program open to any Tufts graduate students. Over the course of this two year program, students enroll in an interdisciplinary set of pre-approved courses related to water in addition to completing individual research or participating in a professional practicum. Upon completion, students receive the WSSS certificate alongside their master's or doctoral degree.

The current WSSS cohort includes students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy Program, the Friedman School, the Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Fletcher School. To learn more about the current WSSS students, click the photos below.

Katie Harrigan Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy	Meredith Houghton Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Sean M. Hogan Graduate School of Arts and Science Dual Degree with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy