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Sports

Tufts Places Second Nationally in Learfield Directors’ Cup Final Standings

The Jumbos are again in the top five out of more than 300 NCAA Division III schools

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Science & Technology

Expanding Uses for Bioengineered Bacterial Spores

Fused to the outer layer of bacterial spores, things like enzymes, biosensors, and drugs are easily stored under even extreme conditions
Point of View

I Create Magic as a Disney World Cast Member

Joining the Disney College Program has taught me to chase my dreams, wherever they take me
University News

New Student Health Clinic Emphasizes an ‘Integrated, Accessible, Equitable’ Model of Care

The Boston Student and Occupational Health Clinic will provide comprehensive care on the Boston Health Sciences campus
Food & Nutrition

South and Southeast Asia Lead the World on Taxing Sugary Drinks

New analysis is first to track sugar-sweetened beverage tax adoption across 183 countries

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Science & Technology

What Are These Meteors That Go Boom?

An astronomer explains where meteors come from, if we can stop them, and how their shockwaves create sonic booms

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Arts & Humanities

Why Do We Crave Saturated Fats?

A Tufts anthropologist gives the evolutionary reason why humans, like our chimp cousins, are so attracted to fatty foods

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Food & Nutrition

Fat and Fiction

A Friedman School expert breaks down the facts about saturated fats

Tick Talk

Learn how to protect yourself and your family from tick bites and the serious diseases they can cause

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Lyme Disease

Tick Safety Tips From Lyme Disease Experts at Tufts

Warm weather means tick season. Faculty at the School of Medicine and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine share tips for keeping the vectors—and the infections they transmit—away.

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Lyme Disease

$7 Million in New Grants Propel Tufts Lyme Research to Next Level

Researchers across the university are attacking the disease from all angles and will use the funding to identify better ways to prevent, track, and treat Lyme and its long-term consequences.

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Public Health

Alpha-Gal Syndrome: What We Know and Don’t Know

This tick-borne condition can cause an allergic reaction to red meat and other symptoms, says an expert at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

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Lyme Disease

Tips for Protecting Kids From Ticks This Summer

An expert from the Tufts Lyme Disease Initiative offers advice for parents and caregivers as children head outdoors during tick season

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Fitness

Former Tufts Runner Breaks Speed Record on Everest

Epic climb on the world’s highest mountain ‘broke my heart … before it finally came together,’ he says

Point of View

The World Cup Reflects Our Shaky Times

This year’s tournament aims to bring nations together in a period of global instability. That’s nothing new

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Global Affairs

10 Years After the Brexit Vote, Are U.K. Residents Seeing a Benefit?

The Fletcher School’s Dimitrios Skiadas explains the decade since the historic referendum

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Politics & Voting

Who Decides When the United States Goes to War?

A Fletcher constitutional law professor explains the history and tensions driving the debate in situations like Iran and Venezuela

Veterinarian Dr. Cheryl London poses for a photo with Oscar, a handsome black Labrador retriever, during his appointment at the Foster Hospital for Small Animals on Tufts' campus in North Grafton, Massachusetts.

Cancer

Finding Better Answers for Patients With a Deadly Bone Cancer

Tufts University veterinarian-scientists join new national effort to speed cures for osteosarcoma in people and pets

Artificial Intelligence

Using AI to Connect the Dots in Public Health

A Tufts leader in tech-driven economic development says AI could help public-health professionals surface scattered community knowledge and use it to make better decisions

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Aging

The Potential Problems of Living Longer

An HNRCA scientist tackles responsible aging research, examining the implications of humans living longer than ever

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Campus Life

New Residence Hall Earns Prestigious Sustainability Recognition

Pre-certified by the Passive House Institute, Pachyderm Place prioritizes energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and student comfort

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Food & Nutrition

It May Not Just Be What’s in Ultra-Processed Foods, but How They’re Made

New observational study suggests processing itself could partly explain links to diabetes, heart disease, and early death

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Race

Can a Racial Slur Be Reclaimed?

Historian Liz Stordeur Pryor, J89, examines the N-word, including how it was wielded by her father, comedy legend Richard Pryor

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War

Masculinity’s Enduring Impact on War

An international relations class is examining how gender shapes historic and modern conflict

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Film & Media

Can ‘For All Mankind’ Teach Us About Living on Mars?

Urban planner Justin Hollander takes a look at the popular sci-fi series

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Food & Nutrition

New Online Toolkit Helps Clinicians Put Food Is Medicine Into Practice

Resource offers practical guidance for all aspects of integrating nutrition-based care into health systems

University News

Generous Listening in Practice

Vuslat Doğan talks about the experience of teaching the fundamentals of civic dialogue, leaning in with curiosity, openness, and courage

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Food & Nutrition

Medically Tailored Meals Produce Better Health and Lower Costs

First statewide Medicaid analysis finds fewer hospitalizations and emergency visits—and lower healthcare costs—among meal recipients in Massachusetts

Research at Tufts

The university’s faculty and students are driving thinking and research forward to solve our most pressing challenges—in our communities and around the world.