An illustration of children lined up at a school lunch counter with lunch trays

How Changing School Lunches Could Help the Environment

A recent Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy study found school lunch menus can have a significant impact on the environment

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University News

Get to Know Kyongbum Lee, New Dean of the Tufts School of Engineering

The teacher, administrator, and researcher looks to begin a new chapter for the school as he assumes the permanent deanship
Science & Technology

Chemistry Professor and Team Win Prestigious Award

For groundbreaking work on single-atom catalysts, Charles Sykes and colleagues receive the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Horizon Prize
Books

Summer Book Recommendations 2022

Members of the Tufts community share their favorite works of fiction and nonfiction—classics, hidden gems, and recent releases
Food & Nutrition

Home-Grown: Recipes for Your Summer Vegetables

A fresh crop of New Entry farmers share personal stories—and seasonal recipes—from their farms
Sports

Karl Gregor Receives National Coach of the Year Honor

Head coach of the men’s tennis team took the Jumbos to the NCAA Final Four for the first time this year
Points of View

Dad’s Tufts Letter Sweater Fits to a T

A Tufts alumna gives her father’s old varsity sweater new life—and keeps it in the family

Scientific analysis of Sars-Cov-2 wastewater sample in laboratory

COVID-19

Wastewater Surveillance for COVID-19: It’s Complicated

Professor Elena Naumova explains the science behind wastewater surveillance, its limitations—and why it serves us well despite those limitations

In this photo from 2017, physician Adam Normandin, MG11 (MBS), M15, listened to a homeless man at a Portland, Maine, clinic, as the patient soaked his feet in warm water and Epsom salt to treat frostbite.

Health Care

Helping Communities in Need While Training Doctors to Treat the Whole Patient

The Community Service Learning program through Tisch College of Civic Life and the School of Medicine offers medical students opportunities for hands-on practice in aspects of health care outside clinics.

Celebrating Pride Month

Performing Arts

‘The Beautiful Messiness of the In-Between’

Actor and Tufts Ph.D. candidate Jo Michael Rezes talks about teaching, performing in a Tony Award-winning play, and embracing a nonbinary approach to life

A head and shoulders photo of Robbie Goldstein, medical director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Transgender Health Program.

Health Care

This Doctor Prescribes Respectful Care to the Trans Community

In the clinic he helped found, Robbie Goldstein serves a population long disenfranchised by the health care system

Portraits of six people against a rainbow-colored background. Tufts LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff describe being visible, fighting discrimination, and finding community

Campus Life

My Story: Celebrating LGBTQ Pride

Tufts students, faculty, and staff describe being visible, fighting discrimination, and finding joy in community

Tim Atherton on the Tufts campus. A new study finds that overall climate and exclusionary behaviors are the biggest factors for LGBT+ scientists leaving physics, with women and trans people most likely to experience harassment

Science & Technology

The Physics Profession Has LGBT+ Issues

A new study finds that overall climate and exclusionary behaviors are the biggest factors for LGBT+ scientists leaving physics, with women and trans people most likely to experience harassment

Climate & Sustainability

Watersheds: A Precious Resource for Building Climate Resilience

The ocean has long inspired Nancy Shrodes, both in her studies at Tufts and in her native California. Today she brings to light the stabilizing role of the South Monica Bay Watershed amid deepening drought and climate uncertainty

Climate & Sustainability

Offshore Wind Power Opportunities Fuel Aspirations of Tufts Graduate Students

A robust offshore wind industry calls for a skilled workforce. Tufts graduate students share their aspirations.

Kris Manjapra standing outside by a wall. He examines the history of when slavery ended, emancipation laws kept the enslaved in bondage—and rewarded the enslavers

Activism & Social Justice

How Slavery Ended Slowly, and Emancipation Laws Often Kept the Enslaved in Bondage—and Rewarded the Enslavers

Tufts Professor Kris Manjapra examines the history of the injustice of abolition in the U.S. and abroad and the need for reparations in his new book

Race

Learning the Lessons of Juneteenth’s History

Writer Jelani Cobb tells a Tufts audience that we need to understand the past to reckon with present realities in America

Meet the Class of 2022

Get to know some of Tufts' newest alumni. Prepare to be surprised, delighted—and inspired.

Food & Nutrition

Ric Bayly, N22, MG22

Schools: Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and School of Medicine

Degrees: Master’s in Food and Nutrition Policy and Programs and Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Global Affairs

Rachel Goretsky, F22

School: The Fletcher School
Degree: Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy
Home: I grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, which is the headquarters of NATO in North America. They have the NATO parade and NATO Fest every year.
Health Care

Alex Coston, M22

School: School of Medicine

Degree: Doctor of Medicine

Home: My community, my friends and chosen family, my biological family, my partner, and my cats
Activism & Social Justice

Darwin Conner, AG22

School: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Degree: Master of Arts in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership

Home: In the literal sense, it’s New York City. In a more interpretive sense, it’s my family and friends.
Global Affairs

Amal Rass, F22

School: The Fletcher School

Degree: Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy

Home: My family. I have four younger sisters, two college-aged, one eight, and one six, and I miss them all the time.
Science & Technology

Alejandro Colina-Valeri, E21, EG22

School: School of Engineering

Degree: Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering (after having earned his undergraduate degree as a member of the Class of 2021)

Favorite thing about Tufts: The friendliness of the people
Pets & Wildlife

Yoonjin Moon, V22

School: Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Degree: Master's of Science in Laboratory Animal Medicine and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine 

Home: Originally from South Korea, I moved to the U.S. with my parents when I was five and have lived in Massachusetts for 11 years.