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Sara Rudolph, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Tufts, sits at a counter with her laptop. Her Medicinal Chemistry class changed direction to study COVID-19 and managed to share findings while shifting to a distance-learning format.
May 12, 2020 Large Image
When the Pandemic Struck, This Class Struck Back
A chemistry professor and his students scrap the lesson plan to study COVID-19

Krishna Kumar, Robinson Professor of Chemistry, vividly remembers Monday, February 3. That’s...

Jamie Maguire stands outside the State Public Health Laboratory in Jamaica Plain. Six Tufts researchers volunteered to help Massachusetts process COVID-19 tests.
May 8, 2020 Large Image
Scientists Turned Volunteers
A team of Tufts researchers used their lab skills to help Massachusetts process thousands of COVID-19 tests

Soon after the pandemic reached Boston, a group of researchers from Tufts School of Medicine and Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences...

"Why not give any kid an opportunity, regardless of their socioeconomic status, to get to have that early relationship with veterinary medicine?” said India Napier, V20. Photo: Courtesy of India Napier
May 7, 2020 Large Image
A Future Veterinarian with a Vision
India Napier, V20, channeled her passion for diversity and inclusion into a STEM program for under-privileged elementary students

Growing up in Boston as one of nine children in a blended family, India Napier, V20, didn’t know what a veterinarian looked like or what it took...

A Zoom screen with multiple users. After a brief pause to regroup with Zoom, older learners take change in their stride at Tufts’ Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
May 7, 2020 Large Image
Lifelong Learning Goes On
After a brief pause to regroup with Zoom, older learners take change in their stride at Tufts’ Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

When Sam Ruth got word that Tufts was moving to online classes in mid-March, he was understandably nervous. Spring classes for the...

Watch a video showing how the Tufts community has pitched in to help alleviate the pandemic.
May 5, 2020 Video
COVID-19: The Tufts Community Responds
Students, faculty, alumni, parents, and staff have all contributed to help deal with the pandemic in many ways. Here are 19, and counting

From the first moments of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the Tufts community from far and wide have gone the extra mile to help those in need...

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