Art Your Research!!

This year, we’ve added a new (and thrilling) element to Tufts’ annual Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium: a competition ...
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Heterodox Economics

Title by Ava Masse Have you been hungry for economic ideas that are not about the pandemic? If so, these ...
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I’m Sorry We Don’t Have a Catwalk (Animal Models)

Title by Ava Masse During a time when heightened attention is being paid to the value of health, the Tufts ...
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People and Power

Each of the posters in this group examines the way that social pressures make themselves felt on individuals, whether through ...
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Buried Treasures in Boston’s Backyard

Title by Ava Masse The common thread that brings these posters together is a focus on how the visual arts ...
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Blueprints for the Human Body

You know what’s incredible? Bodies. Bodies are incredible. Each of the posters in this group examines cutting-edge treatments that engage ...
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A Seat at the Table

Title by Ava Masse Today’s Poster Session “A Seat at the Table” features a broad range of projects that examine ...
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The Matrix is Made of Math

There are few ideas I love more than the one that forms the kernel of the image above: that if ...
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U! R! S! S! 23!

Please join us for the 23rd annual Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium, Tufts’ only university-wide event celebrating undergraduate ...
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MOLECULAR CLUSTERS

I know it’s been a minute, but there is something particularly inspiring about this ongoing project in the context of ...
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Summer Scholars 2020 Poster Session: Meaning from Chaos

I think it’s safe to say that this was a summer like no other. As the seriousness of the pandemic ...
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Summer Scholars Presents: Our 2020 Student Panels!

Hello All, The Summer Scholars program funds rising juniors and seniors to pursue ten-week independent research projects. As part of ...
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Black Lives Matter

By Lidya Woldeyesus In 2019, the police murdered 1,098 people in the United States. The data shows that Black people ...
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When the world is canceled…

by Vaughn Rogers The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. With online classes serving as a substitute for in-person learning, ...
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STEM Voices Unite Against Racism

One thing I’m particularly appreciating about the direction of public discourse in this particular moment is the insistence on linking ...
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Reflections on George Floyd and #blm

I went to high school and middle school in the Minneapolis suburbs, surrounded by lakes and hot dishes and the ...
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Sharing the Wealth

by Angela Robins Hello fellow Jumbos! I graduated in 2009 and am currently living in western Massachusetts. When the pandemic ...
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Advancing Health

Cutting-edge scientific research in human health doesn’t just help us improve lives; it can go so far as to reframe ...
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World History and Development

As the world changes around us, so must our approaches to global problems. These researchers consider the impact of geopolitical ...
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Psych!

Psychological research traces the relationship between the complexities of human experience and our neurological and emotional reactions to them. Why ...
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Sense and Sensibility

How do we make sense of the world? How do our physical senses interact with our mind in order to ...
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Interacting with a Changing World

Ecology is a powerful idea, and the research in this panel explores the interrelated nature of the world around us. ...
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Immigration and Inequality

Research in Community Health focuses on the concrete, experiential outcomes of social inequality. The researchers in this group used qualitative ...
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Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell

One of the incredible things about scientific research is how it allows us to think on an entirely new scale. ...
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Welcome to the 2020 URSS!

Welcome to the 22nd Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium, an annual event that showcases the work of our talented undergraduate ...
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Good news?: FOX News can’t save Trump from the reality of COVID-19

What with the terrifying development of anti-quarantine protests at State Houses around the country, it’s easy to cast about looking ...
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When the Global North Catches a Cold, it Needs to Cover its Mouth

By Doyinsola Oladipo, A2018 “My dearest Doyinsola, this is Alhaji and Alhaja from Lagos, Nigeria. We want to know your ...
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Strut your stuff with the Digital Design Studio!

The Digital Design Studio at Tisch Library is hosting an online showcase for all Tufts community members to show and see creative ...
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Applied knowledge in Medicinal Chemistry

It’s natural, in a crisis, to look toward action. How can I help? What is relevant about my schoolwork or ...
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On Being Creative; or, St. Romauld’s Rule

St. Romuald’s Rule makes it permissible to pause in this moment. He’s suggesting that perhaps the very best thing we can do is sit quietly and think ...
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#stayconnected with music!

If there’s an upside to all of this nonsense, it’s the way that creativity is manifesting online and in shared ...
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Democracy in Quarantine

by Matt Tolbert, A2021 and Lidya Woldeyesus, A2022 COIVD-19 has placed many of America’s most glaring injustices on full display. ...
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Because we all gotta get PAID

The economic picture feels a bit like a bloodbath right now–news of cancelled internships, layoffs, businesses closing–it’s rough ...
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The Work of Public and Community Health

Working through this network I am learning how we can mobilize within and across communities to support those who are marginalized. I am also learning ...
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Shopping 101

By Cathy Stanton, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology For the past four years I’ve been active in the leadership of my ...
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Zoom tutorial

Because Thao & the Get Down can teach us all a lesson: ...
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What she loved; life; London; this moment of June

By John Lurz, Associate Professor of English These days, there’s a lot of texting going on among my friends and ...
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Research Symposium is ON!

My favorite part of any normal spring is getting to see all the ways that students celebrate the fruition of ...
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Tufts Mutual Aid, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned that People Are Actually Amazing

Maybe the most incredible thing to come out of all this nonsense is the development of the seemingly endless ways ...
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Love in the time of COVID-19

Hello beautiful friends! How are you holding up? What’s that? You’re curled up in bed frozen in place because you ...
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