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    • Emergency room staff wheeling a patient to an operating room. An emergency room doctor advocates for taking a public health approach to stem the epidemic of gun violence.
      Health and Wellness
      Opinion: Treat Gun Violence as a Disease

      As an E.R. doctor, I think a public health approach is the best chance to stem the epidemic

    • A speedboat racing in water with machine gun and Iranian flag near a large oil tanker. Confrontations between the U.S. and Iran have far more to do with domestic U.S. politics than they do with any intention to go to war, says a Tufts expert
      World View
      What’s Behind the Simmering Conflict with Iran?

      The confrontations with Iran have far more to do with domestic U.S. politics than they do with any intention to go to war, says a Tufts expert

    • Woman with glasses smiling. Engineers Without Borders leader Catherine Leslie tells about the thousands of students and professionals who volunteer worldwide to build everything from water systems to energy projects.
      Science and Technology
      Tell Me More: Engineering Positive Change

      Engineers Without Borders leader Catherine Leslie tells a Tufts podcast about the thousands of students and professionals who volunteer worldwide to build everything from water systems to energy projects

    • A Bernese mountain dog with only three legs walking on a beach. Clinical trials at Cummings School seek to improve the treatments and prognosis for pets—and hopefully someday children—battling osteosarcoma.
      Animals and Pets
      Hope for Dogs with Bone Cancer

      Clinical trials at Cummings School seek to improve the treatments and prognosis for pets—and hopefully someday children—battling osteosarcoma

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      Outside the Box

      How—and why—Tufts is training a new generation of computer scientists to think beyond the operating system.

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      Stronger Together

      How collaboration at Tufts University is advancing research and helping patients.

       

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      Is This Finally the End of Counting Calories?
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      The State of State

      How a tumultuous two years at the State Department is undermining America’s role as a world leader

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    • Emergency room staff wheeling a patient to an operating room. An emergency room doctor advocates for taking a public health approach to stem the epidemic of gun violence.
      Health and Wellness
      Opinion: Treat Gun Violence as a Disease

      As an E.R. doctor, I think a public health approach is the best chance to stem the epidemic

    • A speedboat racing in water with machine gun and Iranian flag near a large oil tanker. Confrontations between the U.S. and Iran have far more to do with domestic U.S. politics than they do with any intention to go to war, says a Tufts expert
      World View
      What’s Behind the Simmering Conflict with Iran?

      The confrontations with Iran have far more to do with domestic U.S. politics than they do with any intention to go to war, says a Tufts expert

    • Woman with glasses smiling. Engineers Without Borders leader Catherine Leslie tells about the thousands of students and professionals who volunteer worldwide to build everything from water systems to energy projects.
      Science and Technology
      Tell Me More: Engineering Positive Change

      Engineers Without Borders leader Catherine Leslie tells a Tufts podcast about the thousands of students and professionals who volunteer worldwide to build everything from water systems to energy projects

    • A Bernese mountain dog with only three legs walking on a beach. Clinical trials at Cummings School seek to improve the treatments and prognosis for pets—and hopefully someday children—battling osteosarcoma.
      Animals and Pets
      Hope for Dogs with Bone Cancer

      Clinical trials at Cummings School seek to improve the treatments and prognosis for pets—and hopefully someday children—battling osteosarcoma

    • A red-haired man conducting a music group of young children. Layth Sidiq taught music to refugee Syrian children in Lebanon this May.
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      Bringing Music—and Hope—to Refugee Syrian Children

      In Lebanon, Layth Sidiq taught not just melodies but musical traditions to young students

    • A mosquito on skin. An expert on mosquito-borne diseases gives tips about how to stay safe from EEE and West Nile virus when outdoors.
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      How to Stay Safe from EEE

      The rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus has been detected in Massachusetts and Connecticut

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    In-depth looks at the ideas, issues, policies, technologies, and people shaping our world.
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      Outside the Box

      How—and why—Tufts is training a new generation of computer scientists to think beyond the operating system.

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      Stronger Together

      How collaboration at Tufts University is advancing research and helping patients.

       

    • Food Calculator
      Is This Finally the End of Counting Calories?
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      The State of State

      How a tumultuous two years at the State Department is undermining America’s role as a world leader

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      SMFA at Tufts

      The renowned School of the Museum of Fine Arts officially became part of Tufts in 2016—and has been helping the university paint outside the lines ever since.

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      Cyber Insecurity

      From smartphones to bank accounts, energy grids to elections, every part of our digital lives is under attack. In a series of stories, faculty and alumni from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy outline the perils we’re facing—and what we need to do next

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Finding John Brown

An in-depth look at a Tufts masterpiece that was lost then found

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John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry
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A gallery of photos and images from John Brown’s time

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A collection of videos exploring how the John Brown bust was made, lost, found, and restored.

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