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A baseball traveling toward home plate with pitcher out of focus in the background. A physics professor explains how everything from curve balls to sweepers work

How Do Curve Balls, Cutters, Sinkers, and Sweepers Work?

It’s all about the spin that the pitcher puts on the baseball, explains a physics professor

Envisioning a Future where Minerals Are Managed for the Global Good

As demands for metals and minerals increase to support low-carbon technologies, Saleem Ali promotes an international strategy to protect future generations

Sophia Michelen along a riverbank with a kayak. Photographer Sophia Michelen tries a new adventure—standing on the other side of the camera for a PBS documentary.

A World Traveler Revisits America

Photographer Sophia Michelen, A09, tries a new adventure—standing on the other side of the camera for a PBS documentary

New Arts and Sciences Faculty: Fall 2024

A talented group of new faculty will join the School of Arts and Sciences for the Fall 2024 semester.

Inside a traditional steel factory, with red hot molten metal being poured. A Tufts researcher looks to use a different chemistry in ironmaking that could produce harmless water and nitrogen byproducts rather than carbon dioxide

The Quest to Make Iron and Steel Production More Sustainable

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Luke Davis looks to use a different chemistry in ironmaking that could produce harmless water and nitrogen byproducts rather than carbon dioxide

A woman wearing a hat and sunglasses in a pool with a young girl wearing several flotation devices. An occupational therapist devised adaptive swim lessons that aim to teach water safety to every child

How to Teach an Autistic Child to Swim

Marykate Galluzzo, PP-OTD ‘22, devised adaptive swim lessons that aim to teach water safety to every child

the outside of a theater showing the musical Hamilton

The Revolutionary Musicals that Changed American Theater

Examining the ground-breaking shows that continue to challenge audiences

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