School of Arts and Sciences in the Media

A&S historian David Ekbladh comments on President Trump’s focus on advancing a traditional, less diverse version of history, as evidenced by the choices for images on coins commemorating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.

UEP’s Shomon Shamsuddin is quoted throughout this Worcester Telegram article on how the growth of luxury apartments in Worcester is impacting the local community.

A&S English Professor of the Practice Emily Strasser writes this piece examining the complex process behind the annual setting of the Doomsday Clock, as determined by the 17 scientists and policy experts who make up the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board.

Eliot-Pearson’s Rebecca Fauth is quoted about her Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research evaluation of the violence intervention program Roca, finding that it shifts trajectories and changes the lives of the young women who join.

The Tufts men’s soccer team is the 2025 NCAA Division III national champion. (

A&S Community Health Assistant Professor Liana Woskie is quoted about her new research that found a significant increase in violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) in US states where abortion is prohibited without exception for health reasons.

A federal judge in Boston has ruled to restore GSAS student Rümeysa Öztürk’s student record in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) so that she can return to teaching and research opportunities that have been denied to her since she was arrested in March. Öztürk is quoted from a statement.

A&S biologist Benjamin Wolfe is quoted from a Tufts Now news story about new Wolfe lab research that revealed rapid mutations in a mold species used in cheesemaking.

A&S political scientist Fahd Humayun comments on the recent deadly explosions in both Islamabad and Delhi, which are exacerbating political tensions among Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.

UEP’s Julian Agyeman joins Up Next to discuss the idea of city owned grocery stores and how they could help address food insecurity exacerbated by federal cuts to programs such as SNAP.

UEP’s Julian Agyeman coauthors this opinion piece, along with two UEP graduate students, advocating for Boston to “reimagine food access as a public service” and implement publicly owned grocery stores to address food insecurity exacerbated by federal cuts to programs such as SNAP.

A&S political scientist Alon Burstein joins this news segment to discuss the outlook for President Trump’s peace plan as Hamas killings continue after the ceasefire in Gaza.