Outside the Box

A Cummings School alum helps us better understand sharks—for their safety and ours—through photography and research.

Buoyed by faith and the kindness of others, Umuhire Ntabana built a new life after the Rwandan genocide. Now a third-year dental student at Tufts, she plans to care for people in underserved communities.

Cummings School and MIT are deploying immune mice as frontline soldiers in the war against the disease.

There’s great joy in guiding aspiring dentists in the classroom and clinic. But as an alarming number of graying instructors head toward retirement, dental schools need to do better at getting that message across.