If there was an unexpected flair to how Tyler Whitaker translated the word “Tufts” onto a piece of pocket-shaped paper, it was entirely fitting....
Arts & Culture
September 10, 2018 Large Image
In a new pre-orientation program for incoming students, the focus was on the arts
August 24, 2018 Large Image
Gloria Chao tackles the tensions growing up between immigrants and their first-generation children in a new YA novel
Gloria Chao, D12, grew up outside Boston, the daughter of tradition-minded Taiwanese immigrants—much like Mei Lu, the protagonist of Chao’s...
August 20, 2018 Large Image
Largest single-collection gift of works predominantly by African-American artists in university’s 166-year history
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (Aug. 20, 2018)—The Tufts University Art Galleries presents "Expressions Unbound: American Outsider Art from the Andrew...
August 6, 2018 Large Image
In a new book, Maryanne Wolf argues that our brains are changing with all this screen reading, but that it’s not too late to fix the damage
Maryanne Wolf needed to test a hypothesis. A longtime researcher on how reading on screens changes the brain—and not for the better—she was coming...
June 28, 2018 Large Image
Kathryn Bostic weaves tapestries of sound for theater, concerts, films and television
The art of making music for concerts, theater, television, and film is complex: it’s a matter of capturing a mood and setting the right tone for...