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Many nodes connected together with white lines against a blue background. Graduate students participating in the Data Driven Decision Making at Tufts initiative learn to leverage data in making decisions and engaging communities

Making Data-Informed Decisions in a Changing World

Graduate students participating in the Data Driven Decision Making at Tufts initiative learn to leverage analysis in solving problems and engaging communities

Rendering Power Moves Student Artists into the Fast Lane

SMFA at Tufts animators see their work spring to life with the help of high performance computing

A climber near the top of a wall at an indoor gym.

A Jumbo Presence at the Paris Games

A climber and a rower seek gold in this summer’s Olympics and Paralympics

A woman in swimming cap and goggles swimming in a lane in a pool. Katelin Isakoff earns an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship to attend Stanford School of Medicine.

Jumbo Swimming Champion Katelin Isakoff Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship

Heading to Stanford School of Medicine, she won NCAA championships as a swimmer for Tufts

Damaged exterior of a building with black ISIS slogans painted on it in Aleppo, Syria. Conflicts between Muslim groups in the Middle East are rooted in recent history, rather than religious beliefs, according to a new book.

Sectarian Violence Reflects Politics More than Religion

Conflicts between Muslim groups in the Middle East are rooted in recent history rather than religious beliefs, according to a new book

TUAG Awarded $100,000 Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Tufts University Art Galleries received a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

A large group of members of the Tufts men’s tennis team, with a young boy at the center. Tufts is named Division III Team IMPACT Fellowship Campus of the Year

Tufts Is Named a Top Fellowship Campus by Team IMPACT

Recognizes the school for efforts by student-athletes working with the nonprofit, which matches children with chronic or serious illness with college athletic teams

Lionel McPherson stands in front of a building on the Tufts campus. The legacy of enslavement—more than the concept of race—is at the root of our entrenched social status hierarchy, the philosophy professor in a new book.

It’s Not Really About Race

The legacy of enslavement—more than the concept of race—is at the root of our entrenched, caste-like social hierarchy, Philosophy Professor Lionel McPherson argues in a new book

photo of 2024 Juneteenth speaker Christina Greer with Taina McField of Tisch College

On Juneteenth, a Call to Turn on the Lights and Look Around

Political scientist and alumna Christina Greer was the featured speaker for Tufts’ fifth annual day of remembrance and reflection