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Illustration of a stack of books in snow, with a snow-covered tree coming out of an open book. The Tufts University community give their winter book recommendations

Winter Book Recommendations 2022

The Tufts community—faculty, staff, students, and alumni—offer a wide-ranging selection for your reading pleasure

A teenager sitting at a desk with open books, and open laptop, writing in a notebook. Brian Gravel, a Tufts assistant professor of education, questions homework as it exists and imagines it as a way to make schooling meaningful for young people

Is Homework Useful for Kids? If So, What Age Should It Start?

Brian Gravel, an assistant professor of education, questions homework as it exists and imagines it as a way to make schooling meaningful for young people

Two Black men stand with their backs to the camera, their arms around each other’s shoulders, in a black-and-white photograph

A Photographer Conveys the “Emotional Experience of Being There”

From the Tour de France to Black Lives Matter protests, Caroline Yang, J95, captures moments of determination, loss, and hope

Bobbie Knable. The longtime administrator worked closely with students in her 30 years at Tufts, including 20 years as dean of students for the School of Arts and Sciences.

Remembering Bobbie Knable, Longtime Dean of Students

At Tufts for 30 years, she worked closely with students and was instrumental in establishing the Asian American Center, the Women’s Center, the Latinx Center, and the LGBT Center

Computer science major Pamela Melgar, A24, attending ACM SIGGRAPH 2022

Undergraduate conference experience

Pamela Melgar, A24, recently participated as a student volunteer in the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) 2022 Conference in Vancouver, Canada

Sunil Kumar Appointed Tufts University’s Next President

Provost and Senior Vice President at Johns Hopkins University Sunil Kumar will begin as Tufts’ 14th president on July 1, 2023

Nancy Stafford Milburn in a photo from the 1967 Tufts Jumbo yearbook

Remembering Nancy Milburn

The former dean of Jackson College was a role model for women in science

Professor Kwasi Ampene elected to Ghana Academy of Arts & Sciences

Newly appointed Tufts Music Faculty member Kwasi Ampene was inducted into the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences on November 15th, 2022 at the Founders Week Ceremony in Ghana

Global Climate Summit Offers ‘A Master Class in Diplomacy and Negotiation’

Tufts students describe inspiring moments and slow progress at the U.N. conference in Egypt