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In 1972, the late comedian George Carlin included a track on his album Class Clown titled, “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” Depending on your sensibilities, the seven words (which we won’t […]

From its inception, this blog has covered a range of issues—publishing research and presenting at conferences and meetings, to name a few—facing graduate students. But no topic has garnered more posts (or web hits […]

Being the boss—especially in this economy—takes moxy. (We know, we know, it’s a very dated word, but we’re hoping to help it make a comeback! Next word up: “swell.”) Still, we know of several alumni of the <span style="color: […]

The odds of winning the Powerball lottery in Massachusetts are 1 in 195,249,054. There’s a one percent chance your child will play baseball at the professional level (which includes the minor leagues). The […]

Some Graduate School of Arts and Sciencesstudents just can’t let go…of their completed dissertations or theses. Even though the last, arduous task of their graduate studies has been finished—downing obscene […]

What do Vincent van Gogh; Charlie Parker;Franz Schubert; and Arthur Rimbaud all have in common? Aside from being great artists, they all struggled mightily to make financial ends meet during their lifetimes. While […]

Graduate school isn’t cheap. There’s tuition, books, rent, food, and the occasional (very occasional) night out at the movies. But several Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)students have avoided […]

A few weeks ago, we published part one of our series on best practices when seeking external funding. This post drew on the experiences of Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciencesstudents who were awarded […]

Popular culture is littered with stories of research mishaps. Kevlar, superglue, cellophane, Post-it notes, photographs, and the phonograph were all the result of lab “blunders.” Research mistakes also […]

Everyone—from wide-eyed first graders to grizzled newspaper reporters—likes seeing his or her name in print;this is true whether a name appears as a byline or as a series of loops on a crumpled piece of […]

While teaching in academia isn’t a contact sport, it can definitely leave a bruise (typically an internal one). Like many athletic contests, an academic life demands agility, stamina, persistence, and […]

On March 13, 2012, Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences chemistry student Patrick Antle made history, becoming the first GSAS student crowned Jeopardy! champion. In the Boston area, however, this […]

Before he took the National Basketball Association (NBA)—and arguably, the rest of our sports-crazed world—by storm, New York Knick point guard Jeremy Lin was struggling through his rookie year at the end of […]

Speed dating—the craze that began in a coffee shop in California during the late 1990s—has a lot in common with academic conferences and meetings. In both cases, groups of people with disparate interests are […]

Rites of passage are an unavoidable part of life. Sometimes they are pleasant (getting married, having children) and sometimes they border on the traumatic (experiencing puberty, having your heart […]

There’s more to being successful than talent, intelligence, and hard work. Another key component of meeting goals—whether they are professional or personal ones—is learning from one’s own experiences, as well as […]

A lot happened in 1984. Apple introduced the Macintosh computer. Vanessa Williams became the first person to surrender the Miss America crown. The Soviet Union boycotted the summer Olympics. Oh, yes: There was a […]

The circus arts and graduate study may seem like odd bedfellows. But for Tufts graduate alumna Christina Zagarino, G11, the combination made perfect sense.

After teaching at a circus camp in 2008—and […]

Everyone from a National Football League rookie to a fresh-faced wizard at Hogwarts knows that the first year in a new place or situation can be a drag. One day the crowd is cheering your name…and a day […]

Each fall, first-year graduate students descend on universities and colleges across the United States and abroad. While these students have different interests and career aspirations, they’re all in the same […]