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
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.
Conference on Modern Challenges in Imaging: In the Footsteps of Allan MacLeod Cormack
On the fortieth anniversary of Allan MacLeod Cormack's Nobel Prize, Tufts will host a conference August 5-9 celebrating his achievements and gathering top international researchers in mathematics, engineering, science, and medicine.
Who Belongs in Prison?
Erin Kelly, professor of philosophy, gave a talk on morality and criminal conviction at a TEDxCambridge event at the Opera House in Boston.