Building out a Department
The Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora welcomes two accomplished faculty members and looks ahead to a promising future.
How Urban Planning Helped Create a Divided and Very Unequal Minneapolis
The laws governing housing, along with redlining, were part of the systemic efforts to maintain structural racism, Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning in a piece originally published in the Conversation
Tufts professor raises $10,000 for bail bonds with musicology livestream
The Boston Globe highlights Associate Professor of Music Stephan Pennington's livestreamed fundraising lecture on Black music history and civil rights
Art’s Power of Persuasion
Historic protest posters still make an impact in course at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
Tufts Talks: What Is Imagination
Ichiro Takayoshi, Associate Professor of English, presents a Tufts Talk on how imagination works and the role it plays in creation and appreciation of literary works.
Information Overload? Infographics to the Rescue
A Winter Workshop at Tufts in January highlights the best ways to create and use infographics
Faculty Focus: Spring 2020
Two accomplished faculty will join Tufts in the Spring 2020 semester. Natasha Kumar Warikoo is a new professor in the Department of Sociology, and Jill VanTongeren is a new associate professor in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences.
Propelling Tufts Forward
Incentives like the Professorship Partnership Challenge bring attention to increasing faculty positions
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.
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