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illustration of climbing a mountain of books
July 10, 2012
From novels and thrillers to history and biographies, the Tufts community serves up plenty of summer book recommendations

As we sail into prime vacation season each summer, we ask faculty, students, staff and alumni to tell us about books that they liked, and why they...

Founding Fathers, 2011 by Lauren Adelman, Lucas Nkgweng and the Saturday class
June 12, 2012
A new exhibition at Tufts highlights the connections between South Africa and Boston

South Africa’s troubled journey from apartheid to democracy is the focus of The Boston–Jo’burg Connection, a new...

the Colossal AcornHead sculpture on campus
May 14, 2012
First public art installation on the Medford/Somerville campus highlights our connection to nature

The innate, inescapable connection between humans and the natural world is visualized in a new piece of public sculpture recently installed on...

Guster on stage at Tufts' Spring Fling
May 10, 2012
It’s been a long and sometimes strange trip for the band formed at Tufts

If the members of Guster ever had any pretensions about the band, they were all lost in the basement of Lewis Hall freshman year. “One of...

Katie Peterson in class
April 23, 2012
A practicing poet on why you, too, should celebrate National Poetry Month

Is poetry still relevant in this age of information overload, surrounded as we are by texts and tweets, Facebook posts and bloviating bloggers?...