Kids love animals, and the evidence isn’t only anecdotal. Research published in the journal Developmental Psychology in 2012, for example...
Health & Science
August 16, 2018 Large Image
Cummings faculty capitalize on kids’ affinity for animals to foster diversity in veterinary medicine and other STEM fields
August 16, 2018 Large Image
Sai Das, NG02, a scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts, gives the low down
Although traditional reduced-calorie diets are a science-based way to lose weight, intermittent fasting is a good alternative that studies suggest...
August 13, 2018 Large Image
Biology professor Michael Romero wins a presidential award for mentoring students underrepresented in science
When Michael Romero started as an undergraduate at Swarthmore in 1984, one of only a handful of Hispanic Americans there, he was majoring in...
August 9, 2018 Large Image
Kids get a taste of dental and medical school with hands-on exercises meant to mimic the real thing
The patient was bruised, and looked a little green. A long incision needed to be closed, stat.
And here I was, in my gown, mask, eye...
August 8, 2018 Video
Students learn about the process of engineering the fun way—by heading to Revere Beach
On a recent Monday afternoon, four Tufts students were kneeling in the hot sand on Revere Beach, mixing sand and water in a bucket, then packing...