New Year’s Resolutions for Pet Owners It’s that time again when we all make goals for the new year. Sometimes our resolutions are fun, others are focused on our health or on our c […]

by Olivia, Tufts 1+4 Participant

The very first day I moved in with my host family, they warned me not to be scared of Osa when she barked at me. The street I live on is comprised of many little “gated c […]

By Arlyss, Tufts 1+4 Participant

It’s that dreaded question. The one we want to—need to—ask, but the one we try to avoid. The four words that can instantly make us seem anti-social and uninterested, but we ta […]

by Rebecca, Tufts 1+4 Participant
As I sprinted up to the office, I looked down at my phone…9:01. Damn. It was day 2 and I was already late. For as long as I can remember, the value of punctuality has been […]

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Full report: Tufts Washington Update– Dec 18

Contents:

Introduction
Policy Updates

Congress Approves 2018 Farm Bill Conference Report
National […]

The end of the semester is finally within reach! With the holidays now upon us, Hirsh Library will be operating with modified hours from Friday, December 21st through Tuesday, January 1st. The full schedule is […]

Written by Manisha Raghavan, Bioengineering M.S. 2019
This is a personal story, but I am no longer ashamed to discuss it. If someone had asked me a year ago about how much attention I paid to my mental well […]

This weekend, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) met in Katowice, Poland with the aim of reaching a global climate agreement. Almost 200 […]

Emma leaves the lab (Dec 17)
Goodbye, Emma! Good luck with your study-abroad next semester in Scottland!

Several new publications by our team have come out recently.  Several chapters in a new book, Stress Physiology of Tea in the Face of Climate Change, were authored by members of our team—both in the US and by ou […]

Hello everyone! Here’s the weekly jobs roundup for the week of December 16th, 2018:

Northeast

Associate Registrar for the Collection/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [Boston, MA]

Galleries […]

Cats are not Small Dogs: Unique Nutritional Needs of Cats Different from dogs, who are omnivores (meaning they are designed to eat a combination of animal and plant foods), cats are carnivores and have […]

By Finn, Tufts 1+4 Participant

Some of my earliest, happiest, and most dismal memories stem from “the Beautiful Game.” Soccer has been a part of my life since the time I could walk. Ever since a ball was put […]

Vlad won a fellowship to work with a Fermilab scientist on-site on expanding the analyzable dataset for the Minvera experiment in order to explore neutrino-nucleus interactions in portions of phase-space […]