New Art Exhibit Celebrates the Periodic Table
Dan Jay experiments with chemical elements in his latest show at Tisch Library
Tufts Wins Grant for K-2 Coding Education
The $4 million grant will launch a unique partnership between Tufts and Norfolk Public Schools to create an early childhood computer science curriculum
This Fungus Mutates. That’s Good News if You Like Cheese.
In a study published in mBio and featured in the New York Times, Benjamin Wolfe, Eileen Fox Aptman and Lowell Aptman Assistant Professor, and a team of researchers offer the first detailed view of how a fungus transforms into a mold safe for food production in as few as four weeks.
Secrets to climate change adaptation uncovered in the European corn borer moth
A team led by Tufts biologists find genetic variation that allows the moth to change its biological clock and adjust to shorter winters
An Impeachment Explainer
As the U.S. House of Representatives begins to consider impeaching President Donald Trump, Jeffrey Taliaferro, associate professor of political science, details the process and precedents
Cutting Corners on Numbers
Tufts mathematicians find the way we represent numbers in computers can lead to large computational errors, especially for modeling dynamical systems
Sonia Sotomayor and the Power of Asking Why
We all need to speak up and be heard—and be willing to engage with others, the Supreme Court justice told a large Tufts audience
How American Christian media promoted charity abroad
Heather Curtis, associate professor, Department of Religion, writes this piece for The Conversation on early American evangelical movements and philanthropy
Faculty Focus: Fall 2019
Maurice Parent is a new professor of the practice in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and Eoin McGuirk is a new assistant professor in the Department of Economics.
New Arts and Sciences Faculty
An accomplished group of faculty will join A&S for the 2019-2020 academic year.