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The Experimental College is known for its eclectic array of courses, and this semester is no exception. Among this fall's offerings are multiple courses focusing on the environment, including "Environmental Action: Shifting from Saying to Doing," co-taught by UEP student Dallase Sc...

The Jumbo field hockey team defeated Trinity 3-2 on Nov. 8 to win the NESCAC championship for the first time. With the victory, Tufts (16-1) earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament. For updates, visit the Tufts Athletics website.

A team of researchers from Boston University School (BUSM), Carney Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance and Tufts University School of Medicine, have found that widespread poor compliance with regular cleaning of public restrooms on cruise ships may predict subsequent norovirus i...

Tufts University has been tapped by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a multidisciplinary team that will receive a grant of up to $185-million to create better synergies among veterinarians, doctors, and public health officials in responding...

Three Tufts students pose with a "family" at Agahozo Shalom Youth Village. Students at the village are divided into family units made up of 16 boys or girls, a house mother and a counselor. From left, Becca Hornthal (A '11), Heather Blonsky (A '11) and Emily Rutcofsky (A '11). Photo courtesy o...

Edna Gonzalez Las Vegas, Nev. Major: American Studies Andrew Mulherkar Seattle, Wash. Major: International Relations Dual-degree candidate, New England Conservatory Jane Song Mukilteo, Wash. Major: International Relations and East Asian Studies

A new curriculum called The Great Diseases will bring real-world biomedical research to students in three Boston high schools. The result of a collaboration between scientists from Tufts University School of Medicine and teachers from the Boston Public Schools, the curriculum prese...

Tufts Mathematics Professor Zbigniew Nitecki, a member of the board of the Somerville Mathematics Fund, participated in last year's Showdown and was particularly impressed with students' abilities. Voolich says many Tufts graduate students have helped out with the Showdown over th...

The most efficient passer in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) during the 2008 season, Fucillo was elected a captain by his teammates and was poised to direct the Jumbos' young offensive unit this fall. But he injured his ankle during a pre-season scrimmage agai...

That's a level of rich history to have when I get a referral," she explains. "Having the familiarity and recognition within my community allows me to really be able to support kids in a way that's extremely meaningful to me." White Coat Ceremony photos by Alonso Nichols, University Photogr...

Among the key players on "Team Boston" were students from Tufts' Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) program and The Fletcher School. Five of the project's seven directors came from the BAC; the other two were Matt Thoms (E'10), an undergraduate in Tufts' School of Enginee...

Leon Reijmers, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, is one of 55 recipients of the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. Reijmers is investigating the way memories are stored in the brain, specifically foc...

Now a third-year student at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Gilbert faced this problem as an undergraduate at Tufts. She had come to campus with an interest in veterinary medicine, but was drawn to history as well. It turned out not to be a problem.

Linda Abriola, dean of the School of Engineering since 2003 and a noted environmental engineer, pointed out, "Many of the challenges we face as a nation and a society are technical in nature, extraordinarily complex, and intertwined with global financial and political concerns. Engin...

Wood-Spagnoli says she loves that Tufts has so much to offer in the realm of academics, community service and extracurricular activities. "I am really interested in Tufts' international relations department and the cognitive science program, but I want to keep my options open," she sa...

DePass, the new assistant administrator for international affairs, received her bachelor's degree in political science from the School of Arts and Sciences. McCarthy, who serves as assistant administrator for air and radiation, received her master's in urban and environmental pol...

Originally named the Tufts Institute for Lifelong Learning, the program was soon taken under the wing of The Bernard Osher Foundation, which provides funding to colleges and universities across the nation, giving special attention to reentry students and life long learning. In 2002,...

Finberg says that with the current leadership in Washington, that missing ingredient could finally be in place. He notes President Barack Obama's expressed commitment to end childhood hunger in the U.S. by 2015. Does Finberg think this goal can be achieved?

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 United States Tufts University has been working with Friends of the River and other groups to spruce up the increasingly clean Mystic. (You should still make sure you're up on your tetanus shots if you fall in.) And Springstep has put a spring in the step of Medford ...

 MA Tufts' University-Wide Task Force on Pandemic Planning has confirmed the first two cases of swine flu to hit the Tufts community. The cases occurred about one week of each other. The patients, both of whom graduated on May 17, are recovering well at ...

 United States Provost said state aid to her district was essentially "a subsidy to Tufts University and to our largest landowner, which is the MBTA." "Tufts does not deserve this sort of subsidy," she added in testimony to the Revenue Committee. ...

Cosmos Al writes "Researchers at Harvard and Tufts University have developed a way to send coded messages without using electricity. David Walt, professor of chemistry at Tufts, and Harvard's George Whitesides have developed 'infofuses' that can transmit ...

 MA By patterning flammable metallic salts on a nitrocellulose fuse, researchers at Harvard and Tufts University have encoded messages that can be transmitted without the need for a power source. When one fuse burns, the metallic salts along its length ...

 MA Today, part of the former state hospital campus is home to the Grafton Job Corps, and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. More than 30 students from the Grafton Job Corps have put in an estimated 800 hours in the past week to ...

 United States He is a son of Adele Fleet Bacow and Lawrence S. Bacow of Medford, Mass. His mother is the founder and president of Community Partners Consultants, an urban planning and design firm in Medford. His father is the president of Tufts University. ...

 MA Medford Mayor Michael McGlynn at the groundbreaking of the Curio house, Team Boston's entry in the upcoming Solar Decathlon. Students from Tufts and the Boston Architectural College (BAC) have joined forces to construct a fully functional solar house ...

 United States AP) A graduate program at Tufts University is linking longtime organizers and community activists with younger students to help them learn from one another. The Tufts Neighborhood Fellows program was created by professor James Jennings, who saw a need ...

 CT BY THE YALE DAILY NEWS SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Not even a morning of rain could ruin the homecoming here at Tufts University on Sunday for one of Yale's most pioneering female scientists. At Tufts' Commencement ceremony this morning, Meg Urry, the director ...

 United States Former tenants Ursula Stahl and Callie Smith, both Tufts University grads, traded the small, upscale address of their eco-friendly boutique, Envi, for a shared 2500-square-foot space in the Leather District. Now at 134 Beach St., Envi will focus its ...

Ashley Colpaart, Austin, Texas Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Class of 2010 Deborah Linder, Fitchburg, Mass. Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Class of 2009 Elizabeth Shenk, Westerville, Ohio School of Dental Medicine, Class of 2009

It's a really diverse group with both engineers and liberal arts students, some who were on teams in high school and some who have never participated before," says Hale. "It's a great way to work on your communication, articulation and life skills, and it doesn't really have to relate to la...

Apr. 21: Margarita Martinez, director of the award-winning documentary "La Sierra," was on hand for a discussion and screening of the film in an event sponsored by Latin American Studies, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Department of Political Science. The film focuse...

Apr. 2: Pulitzer Prize-winning Brown University historian Gordon Wood (A'55) gave a talk entitled "Monarchism & Republicanism in the Early US." The event was sponsored by the Tufts History Society, the Tufts Historical Review, the History Department and the Political Science Dep...

Mar. 27: Noam Chomsky and Bill Fletcher, Jr., were the keynote speakers for the opening session of the New Strategies for the Obama Era Conference, held on the Medford/Somerville campus by the American Friends Service Committee and co-sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies program a...

By Paul Basken A spokeswoman for the Tufts medical school, Christine Fennelly, said the university decided it didn’t want its administrators to publicly debate Mr. Thacker at the same time he is helping to lead an investigation into Tufts faculty members. Mr. Grassley wrote to the president of Tufts, La...

Mar. 10: Daniel Schrag of the Department of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University spoke at the Tufts Energy and Climate Forum. Mar. 12: Rodolfo Cardona, professor emeritus of Spanish at Boston University, delivered the annual Gifford Lecture on "Alma en pena: el hom...

In January and February, EXPOSURE held two exhibits at the Slater Concourse Gallery on the Medford/Somerville campus. The first exhibit, the product of a week six Tufts students spent in northern Uganda, focused on the aftermath of the there, while the second showed work from an EXPOSUR...

Panelists included Astier Almedom, professor of the practice in humanitarian policy and global public health at The Fletcher School; Elizabeth Ammons, Harriet H. Fay professor of literature; Christina Economos, assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and P...

Mar. 5: Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at the Indiana University, received the 2009 Jonathan M. Tisch Prize for Civic Engagement and spoke about citizenship, civil society, and the civic role of universities in a conversation with Peter Levine, director...

 MA Under state legislation passed in 1989, Massachusetts requires all college and university students to have health insurance either through the Qualifying Student Health Insurance Program (QSHIP) or through private insurers. ...

By royalsreview Tufts did not immediately appear for the big league club, arriving via September callup. Tufts appeared in 10 games in 1982, posting a 4.50 ERA (91 ERA+) in 20 IP and picking up two victories and two saves. The Royals went 90-72 that season, finishing three games behind the California Angels.

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By robert@thefire.org (Robert Shibley) While Tufts President Lawrence Bacow undoubtedly would have liked the controversy to simply fade away, the manifest injustice of the finding and the widespread condemnation of Tufts' actions in this case prompted the university to try to find a way out of this mess other than the logica...

By robert The study we noted in that post was conducted at Rutgers, and found that the typical freshman gained around seven pounds in year one. Now there are reports that similar studies at Tufts University in Boston and Indiana University at Bloomington have found pretty much the same thing.

Jerome P. Kassirer, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, 's doctor, speaks about financial conflicts of interest.

By Bill Levinson YouTube video: “A firing squad of the U.S. Ninth Army puts an end to the young life of Heinz Petry, 16, of the Hitler Jugend. Petry was tried as a spy and executed by American troops.” al Qaeda, Barbara Grossman, Committee on Student Life, Iraq, Primary Source, Tufts University Tufts Universit...

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By Bill Levinson On Monday evening at Tufts University, I attended a long, grueling show trial — the kind of show trial that doubtless will be repeated at campuses across the United States. This show trial was convened with the sole purpose of punishing The Primary Source, Tufts’ lone conservative period...

By Eugene Volokh Yet according to the a decision by the Tufts University Committee on Student Life both these items violate Tufts policies and are thus forbidden at Tufts. Tufts policies prohibit, among other things, "[h]arassment or discrimination against individuals on the basis of race, religion,...

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