Valeda Dent, PhD (MILS ‘92), established the Johnnie O. Dent Endowed Scholarship Fund in honor of her mother, one of the first African American students to attend UMSI.

I’ll admit it. When I began my research for this article, I thought of “sustainability” as interchangeable with “being green.” If you’d asked me for examples, I would have mentioned cardboard straws and bicycle shares…

Dan Nguyen, A24, knows the weight of water. Since high school, he has been raising awareness that a quarter of the global population lacks access to safe drinking water…

Relativity is a global legal technology company with a mission “to organize data, discover the truth, and act on it.” In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, helping customers accomplish this mission took on new meaning.

Professor Jack Ridge’s affinity for geological formations, as his last name might suggest, began early in life…

Sarah Luna knows how to build spaces for herself and others. Here, that space is an office tucked into the Department of Anthropology, where her endearingly strange-looking dog Tenoch curls up in a corner of the couch…

Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults is effectively cut out of the labor market or severely limited due to a criminal record. The resulting damage to individuals, society, and the economy has received significant attention in recent years…

In August, an e-mail arrived in my inbox, sent by the Tufts Announcements e-list—the kind of e-mail I usually open just to make the notification disappear…

If you were to eat dinner with Professor Ben Wolfe, chances are you would find some delicious fermented foods on the table: creamy camembert cheese, salami, or perhaps a bowl of miso soup—chosen not just for their taste, but for their microbes…

In 2019, the University of Chicago set a goal of expanding hiring from nine surrounding neighborhoods. In conversations with community partners about this goal, the Office of Civic Engagement came face-to-face with an issue they hadn’t considered…

Inequities affecting Black and Latino communities are deeply rooted in Chicago, one of the most diverse cities in America, and have been compounded and made more visible by the COVID-19 pandemic…

If technology is changing our world so quickly, how should we be changing early education to keep up?

You can get to know a city—its history, people, and peculiarities—by wandering its streets. Or its galleries. Each of Boston’s art museums offers something distinct.

Here’s what Tufts is all about.

Every summer, struggling readers in first through fourth grade participate in Tufts University’s Summer Reading Program for a month of remediation—and empowerment. Some skip through the door, seemingly filled with mirth at the idea of their alternative “summer camp.” Others are hesitant…

I sat in a professor’s office while he piled bound books onto the desk in front of me: theses, written by Tufts students, with topics ranging from public toilet systems to the origins of the novel to Sephardic cuisine…

Kevin Oye ‘79 is the executive director of the Tufts Gordon Institute, which fosters engineering leadership and provides venture opportunities through its Entrepreneurship Center. Professor Oye believes in business and technology for good. We spoke about what makes that possible, and teachable…