Innovation and Management

This year, Tufts Gordon Institute (TGI) launched a Data Analytics for Managers MasterTrack Certificate in partnership with online learning platform Coursera, as part of an expansive effort to deliver practical, thought-provoking knowledge in a technology-driven world.

Recent graduates of the MS in Innovation and Management (MSIM) program landed high-impact jobs at leading companies in a variety of industries, including Amazon Robotics, Google, Procter & Gamble, and Takeda, while others launched their own startups to bring new products and services to market. TGI also continued to partner with the School of Engineering to offer a dual degree program, providing graduate students with the opportunity to earn two master’s degrees in just two years. Nearly 40% of all applicants who completed their application to the MSIM program were pursuing a dual degree.

Contestants, judges, and audience members at the virtual $100k New Ventures Competition

Students from Tufts Gordon Institute celebrate Commencement with TGI executive director Kevin Oye This year TGI launched the Tufts Transformative Leadership Community (TLC), a resource for workshops, non-credit short courses, and more, all focused on empowering career growth and next-level learning for technology professionals. Derby Entrepreneurship Center co-hosted Tufts University’s inaugural Social Impact Entrepreneurship Ideathon.

Joyce Cummings Center is a new seven-story structure going up on the corner of College and Boston Avenues, housing classrooms, offices, event space, computer labs, and a café. It will be the new home of the Department of Computer Science and Tufts Gordon Institute, among other Tufts departments and centers, and its opening will make space available in Halligan Hall and the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex for more School of Engineering personnel and teams. Tenants are expected to begin moving in to Joyce Cummings Center when construction is completed in fall 2021.

Tufts University has begun planning for a new residence hall for undergraduate students, which is expected to be built within four years. Lab renovations have been completed for two new faculty members — Assistant Professor Marco Donato (ECE) and Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Aseema Mohanty (ECE) — and will soon be completed for Assistant Professor Nathaniel Eagan (ChBE).

Construction of Joyce Cummings Center, a new 148,000-square-foot multifunction building generously funded by the Cummings Foundation, is expected to wrap up in the fall of 2021