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Two women and a man stand together outdoors. Tufts psychology researchers get $2.7 million to map the pathways between experiencing the stressful effects of racism and disease

Exploring the Link Between Racism and Ill Health

Tufts psychology researchers get $2.7 million to map the pathways between experiencing racism-induced stress and developing disease

An elderly woman picking up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Tufts researchers investigate how we can keep our brains healthy as we age.

What Happens to Aging Minds

Researchers investigate how we can keep our brains healthy as we age, focusing on information retrieval, stereotypes and memory, and how nutrition might offset Alzheimer’s disease

A view of downtown Riyadh, Saudi Araia as seen from above at night, with tall buildings and lights. A political scientist examines why democracy is so elusive in the oil-rich Middle East.

Why Is Democracy So Elusive in the Oil-Rich Middle East?

Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science Nimah Mazaheri examines the region for clues about past political patterns and future possibilities

Doric Columns Amongst Beautiful Pink Flowers

What Ancient Greek Stories of Humans Transformed into Plants can Teach us about Fragility and Resilience

Stories from Greek mythology often show the close relationship between humans and plants.

The Life-Changing Simplicity of Haiku

A course on writing these tiny poems promises that small verse can broaden the mind

Assistant Professor James Murphy, left, and Associate Professor Shuchin Aeron, right.

Low-dimensional structures, learning, and algorithms in the space of measures

A Tufts research team recently received National Science Foundation funding to leverage structures in large, high-dimensional data

Why Are There Religions?

Associate Professor of Religion Jennifer Eyl explains the underlying aspects of what drives human spiritual beliefs, and how that works in the world

A mostly empty downtown street in San Francisco in the daytime. An urban planner argues that the urban doom loop downward spiral that some U.S. cities face is not inevitable, but requires active efforts to avoid

Urban Doom Loop: What It Is and How Cities Can Stop It

An urban planner argues that the downward spiral that some U.S. cities face is not inevitable, but requires active efforts to avoid

Composite image of Doug Gollin, Rebecca Jackson, and Zora J Murff

Douglas Gollin, Jason and Chloe Epstein Professor of Energy Justice in the Department of Economics; Rebecca Jackson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences; and Zora J Murff, Professor of the Practice at SMFA at Tufts.

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