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 ...
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 ...
Black Lives Matter
By Lidya Woldeyesus In 2019, the police murdered 1,098 people in the United States. The data shows that Black people ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sharing the Wealth
by Angela Robins Hello fellow Jumbos! I graduated in 2009 and am currently living in western Massachusetts. When the pandemic ...
Advancing Health
Cutting-edge scientific research in human health doesn’t just help us improve lives; it can go so far as to reframe ...
World History and Development
As the world changes around us, so must our approaches to global problems. These researchers consider the impact of geopolitical ...
Sense and Sensibility
How do we make sense of the world? How do our physical senses interact with our mind in order to ...
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. ...
Immigration and Inequality
Research in Community Health focuses on the concrete, experiential outcomes of social inequality. The researchers in this group used qualitative ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
#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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shopping 101
By Cathy Stanton, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology For the past four years I’ve been active in the leadership of my ...
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 ...
Research Symposium is ON!
My favorite part of any normal spring is getting to see all the ways that students celebrate the fruition of ...
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 ...
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 ...