Faculty in the News
Fall 2025
The Democratic Party Has a New Litmus Test
The Free Press
10/29/2025
Remarks reportedly made by Professor of Political Science David Art in response to Representative Seth Moulton’s November 2024 comments about transgender athletes is briefly mentioned in this article.
Could Biological Robots Heal Us from the Inside?
LSE Podcasts
10/28/2025
Vannevar Bush Professor of Michael Levin joins the Into The Impossible podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about bioelectricity, regenerative biology, multiscale cognition, and more.
What Scares a Scientist? Researchers Tell Their Terrifying Tales
The Scientist
10/27/2025
Research Assistant Professor of Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology Brian Lin is among the scientists sharing their scariest professional experiences.
Where Ishwar still lives: In Bankura, Santhal children commemorate the Renaissance man
The Telegraph- India
10/26/2025
Professor of Religion Brian Hatcher recounts a past visit to Karmatar, India, the home of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian educator and social reformer. Hatcher is author of Vidyasagar: The Life and Afterlife of an Eminent Indian.
At Harvard this year, fewer Black, Latino, and international students, more Asian Americans
The Boston Globe
10/23/2025
Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Natasha Warikoo comments on why it’s tough to make definitive demographic conclusions when assessing how the end of affirmative action is affecting college diversity.
China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration
The Economist
10/23/2025
This article cites Associate Professor of Political Science Michael Beckley’s 2022 book “Danger Zone,” in which he and co-author Hal Brands concluded that China is trapped in a “quagmire” reminiscent of the Soviet Union.
Publicly owned grocery stores could be Boston's answer to food insecurity
The Boston Globe
10/21/2025
Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning 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.
Cheese Caves, A Proposal, And Chance: How Scientists Ended Up Watching Fungi Evolve In Real Time
IFLScience
10/14/2025
Associate Professor of Biology 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.
Does It Really Matter Who Is Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska?
Bloomberg Opinion
10/12/2025
Professor of Political Science Eitan Hersh’s book Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change is referenced in this opinion piece.
A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart
The Conversation
10/10/2025
Teaching Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development Department Julie Dobrow examines the failed marriage of Elaine Goodale and Charles Alexander Eastman, the topic of her new dual biography, “Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage.”
Scientists Watch Fungi Evolve in Real Time, Thanks to a Marriage Proposal in a Cheese Cave
Smithsonian Magaine
10/10/2025
Associate Professor of Biology Benjamin Wolfe is quoted from both a New York Times article and a Tufts Now news story about new Wolfe lab research that revealed rapid mutations in a mold species used in cheesemaking.
China's Foreign Aid Strategy in Rwanda
The Borgen Project Blog
10/10/2025
Associate Professor of Political Science Michael Beckley discusses China’s foreign aid strategy in Rwanda, one of the world’s least developed countries.
Improving Academic Supports for Incarcerated Students
Inside Higher Ed
10/10/2025
This article mentions that TUPIT offers a two-semester foundation of academic success course for incarcerated students.
Why the Green Cheese Turned White
The New York Times
10/09/2025
Associate Professor of Biology Benjamin Wolfe discusses new Wolfe lab research that revealed rapid mutations in a mold species during the cheesemaking process.
The Nazi Scholar Inspiring China's Intelligentsia
The Dispatch
10/06/2025
Associate Professor of Political Science Michael Beckley is quoted from a 2023 paper he wrote with Hal Brands about China’s threat to democracy.
Who is Kareem Khubchandani? Harvard hires drag performer LaWhore Vagistan to teach Queer Ethnography and RuPaulitics
The Times of India
10/05/2025
Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Kareem Khubchandani, who is Harvard’s 2025-2026 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Associate Professor in Studies of Gender and Sexuality, is profiled.
Pak-US repair
Dawn
10/03/2025
Assistant Professor of Political Science Fahd Humayun outlines how Pakistan can use the turnaround in Pakistan-US relations to its advantage.
What Was the World’s First-Known Pandemic?
History TV
10/01/2025
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies Brandon McDonald comments on the cold spell that sparked the Plague of Justinian in the sixth century.
Weaver Ants Form Complex Chains to Pull More Than 100 Times Their Weight
Scientific American
09/29/2025
Assistant Teaching Professor of Biology Helen McCreery comments on new research finding that Asian weaver ants work harder and more efficiently in large groups, leveraging their unique grippy feet to increase the group's strength saying, “The world is full of organisms solving problems in ways that are totally different from the way our brains would think to do it.”
Tufts professor on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" says he feels "inherent paranoia"
WBZ News Boston CBS
09/26/2025
English Lecturer Joshua Nguyen describes his experience being put on Professor Watchlist, on which five Tufts faculty are listed. A&S third year student Mia Rubenstein also appears in this news segment.
In the fight against antisemitism, passion isn’t enough
eJewishPhilanthropy
09/26/2025
This opinion piece highlights a study, led by Professor of Political Science Eitan Hersh, examining data related to antisemitism philanthropy. The study is supported by the Jewish Funders Network.
Charlie Kirk put Massachusetts professors on a watchlist. Now, some teach in fear.
The Boston Globe
09/25/2025
English Lecturer Joshua Nguyen describes his experience being put on Professor Watchlist, a website that targets professors for their research and commentary on such issues as the war between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian rights, transgender rights, and racial justice. Link to article here.
Cheese cave fungi unlock secrets of rapid evolution – and it can benefit us
New Atlas
09/20/2025
Associate Professor of Biology Benjamin Wolfe and GSAS PhD student Nicolas Louw are quoted from a Tufts Now news story about Wolfe lab research on cheese fungi, which has revealed specific molecular mechanisms of genetic adaptation.
Cheese Fungi Help Unlock Secrets of Evolution
Morning Ag Clips
09/18/2025
Associate Professor of Biology Benjamin Wolfe and GSAS PhD student Nicolas Louw are quoted about Wolfe lab research on cheese fungi, which has revealed specific molecular mechanisms of genetic adaptation.
Tufts professor shows how AMA undermined Black doctors
Amsterdam News
09/18/2025
Community Health Assistant Professor Benjamin Chrisinger discusses his findings while researching his dataset “Deep Roots of Racial Inequalities in US Healthcare: The 1906 American Medical Directory.”
Weight loss breakthrough as daily pill shown to help people shed 'significant' pounds
GB News
09/18/2025
Robinson Professorship in Chemistry Krishna Kumar is quoted about his lab’s development of a next-generation compound that combines four different hormone receptors for more effective weight loss with fewer side effects.
GHIBLI'S MIDLIFE CRISIS: AS BELOVED JAPANESE STUDIO TURNS 40 WILL THE MAGIC FADE?
Hiru News
09/17/2025
Professor of International Literary and Cultural Studies Susan Napier is quoted about similarities and differences between Ghibli and Disney studios.
Private school for Native Hawaiians vows to defend admissions policy from conservative strategist
ABC News
09/16/2025
Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Natasha Warikoo says that the nonprofit Students for Fair Admissions is targeting affirmative action policies across educational institutions and “seeing what sticks.”
Affirmative action opponent’s next target: A private school with admissions preference for Hawaiians
Associated Press
09/16/2025
Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Natasha Warikoo says that the nonprofit Students for Fair Admissions is targeting affirmative action policies across educational institutions and “seeing what sticks.”
Replacing the Massachusetts flag has been a debate over symbolism. It's becoming a political one.
The Boston Globe
09/15/2025
Professor of Political Science Deborah J. Schildkraut discusses the nationwide reexamination of race and historical emblems, including Massachusetts’ efforts to replace its flag and seal.
Scientists Watched Evolution Happen In Real Time Inside A Vermont Cheese Cave
Study Finds
09/15/2025
New A&S Wolfe Lab research, led by Associate Professor of Biology Benjamin Wolfe and GSAS PhD student Nicolas Louw, on cheese fungi revealing specific molecular mechanisms of genetic adaptation, is highlighted in this article.
Cheese cave fungi reveal how genetic mutations drive rapid evolutionary change
Phys.org
09/13/2025
Associate Professor of Biology Benjamin Wolfe and GSAS PhD student Nicolas Louw are quoted about Wolfe lab research on cheese fungi, which has revealed specific molecular mechanisms of genetic adaptation.
‘Demon Slayer’ could win the box office this weekend
Chicago Tribune
09/12/2025
Professor of International Literary and Cultural Studies Susan Napier says “The world does have darkness. Anime allows us to process ... some of these really conflicting, difficult emotions we have.”
‘Demon Slayer' could win the box office this weekend. Why anime's popularity is surging
Los Angeles Times
09/11/2025
Professor of International Literary and Cultural Studies Susan Napier says “The world does have darkness. Anime allows us to process ... some of these really conflicting, difficult emotions we have.”
Trump shouldn't overreact to China and India's newfound alliance, expert says
Fox Business
09/10/2025
Associate Professor of Political Science Michael Beckley joins “Morning with Maria” to discuss India's economic relationships with China and Russia and their impact on U.S. trade negotiation, noting that India is caught between “needing access to the American market to get revenue, but at the same time desperately needing oil…at bargain basement prices from Russia.”
'Next Ozempic': A new weight loss drug is on its way, aims to deliver 30% weight loss with fewer side effects
The Times of India
09/10/2025
Robinson Professorship in Chemistry Krishna Kumar's Lab's development of a next-generation compound that combines four different hormone receptors for more effective weight loss with fewer side effects is discussed in this article.
A Tufts professor says higher ed is ideologically homogenous and wants to do something about it
WBUR Boston 90.9 FM
09/08/2025
Professor of Political Science Eitan Hersh joins this episode of Morning Edition to discuss the new Tufts Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education, intended to broaden the range of perspectives to which students are exposed on campus.
'Next Ozempic' aims to deliver 30% weight loss with fewer side effects
Fox News Health
09/08/2025
Professor of Chemistry Krishna Kumar and GSAS student Tristan Dinsmore are quoted in this article highlighting the Kumar Lab’s development of a next-generation compound that combines four different hormone receptors for more effective weight loss with fewer side effects.
Two years after Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, where do Asian Americans stand?
The Boston Globe
09/07/2025
Professor of Sociology Natasha Warikoo comments on a lawsuit brought by conservative activist Edward Blum against the University of Texas in 2012.
How Aunties Power Our World
KQED Forum
09/05/2025
Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Kareem Khubchandani joins this in-depth conversation exploring the role “aunties” play in today’s families and communities.
Trump says higher ed is too liberal. Tufts launched a center to tackle that issue
MassLive
09/04/2025
Professor of Political Science Eitan Hersh discusses the new Tufts Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education, intended to broaden the range of perspectives to which students are exposed on campus. Hersh is the inaugural director of the center, the idea for which was born out of his course on American conservatism.
Devastating flooding continues in India and Pakistan
TheWorld
09/04/2025
Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Hassaan Khan joins this episode of The World to discuss the role that climate change and infrastructure are playing in the devastating monsoon season in Pakistan, which faces more flooding after 2 million people have been driven from their homes.
Tufts to open new ‘Center for Expanding Viewpoints'
The Boston Globe
09/03/2025
Professor of Political Science Eitan Hersh discusses Tufts new Center for Expanding Viewpoints in Higher Education, intended to broaden the range of perspectives to which students are exposed on campus. Hersh will head the center, the idea for which was born out of his course on American conservatism.
Water experts deny India deliberately released water to cause floods in Pakistan's Punjab: Report
Deccan Herald
09/03/2025
Assistant Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning Hassaan Khan comments on the likely reason that India released dam waters that caused flooding in Pakistan in the wake of torrential rainfall.
A Sharper Image of the Early Universe
Space Daily
09/03/2025
Professor of Physics & Astronomy Danilo Marchesini is quoted about the MINERVA program, which will utilize instruments from the James Webb Space Telescope to observe and study rare, distant galaxies. Marchesini is co-principal investigator of the collaborative initiative funded by NASA.
FAT FREE New 4-in-1 ‘breakthrough drug’ that ‘combines Ozempic AND Mounjaro melts fat faster – and has fewer side effects’
The Sun UK
09/02/2025
Professor of Chemistry Krishna Kumar, GSAS student Tristan Dinsmore, and Visiting Scholar Martin Beinborn discuss the Kumar Lab’s development of a next-generation compound that combines four different hormone receptors for more effective weight loss with fewer side effects.