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      Fall 2017
      VOL. 25, NO. 1
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    • A placemat by Camille Shimshak, A21, about the nutritional value of milk—as well as patterns of lactose intolerance around the world—topped with a cup of rice milk. A placemat by Lauren Diaz, A20, in the background.
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      Healthier Living Through Art

      Tufts students share food, art, and nutritional advice with members of Boston’s Chinatown community

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      Summer Construction at Tufts

      A variety of construction projects, large and small, are under way across Tufts’ campuses

    • Black and white mirror images of a handprint. Young people change biologically and socially, and if they are interrupted by trauma, it has a cascading effect on health and adult life, said Adolfo Cuevas.
      Health and Wellness
      Link Between Racial Discrimination and Cardiovascular Health

      A new study finds that experiencing the trauma of discrimination at a young age is tied to heart troubles later in life

    • Author Olaf Groth talking with Fletcher School’s Bhaskar Chakravorti about artificial intelligence and thinking machines and the consequences for humanity
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      Tell Me More: Can AI Make Us Smarter?

      Artificial Intelligence can be a force for good—or the opposite, says Olaf Groth in a Tufts podcast

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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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      Fall 2017
      VOL. 25, NO. 1
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      Spring 2017
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    • A placemat by Camille Shimshak, A21, about the nutritional value of milk—as well as patterns of lactose intolerance around the world—topped with a cup of rice milk. A placemat by Lauren Diaz, A20, in the background.
      Arts and Culture
      Healthier Living Through Art

      Tufts students share food, art, and nutritional advice with members of Boston’s Chinatown community

    • Campus Life
      Summer Construction at Tufts

      A variety of construction projects, large and small, are under way across Tufts’ campuses

    • Black and white mirror images of a handprint. Young people change biologically and socially, and if they are interrupted by trauma, it has a cascading effect on health and adult life, said Adolfo Cuevas.
      Health and Wellness
      Link Between Racial Discrimination and Cardiovascular Health

      A new study finds that experiencing the trauma of discrimination at a young age is tied to heart troubles later in life

    • Author Olaf Groth talking with Fletcher School’s Bhaskar Chakravorti about artificial intelligence and thinking machines and the consequences for humanity
      Ideas
      Tell Me More: Can AI Make Us Smarter?

      Artificial Intelligence can be a force for good—or the opposite, says Olaf Groth in a Tufts podcast

    • An illustration about “what a date is” with examples of positive things—and negative ones—aimed at intellectually disabled young people
      Health and Wellness
      Why Sex Education Is Important for Students with Intellectual Disabilities

      A course for young people with intellectual disabilities, designed by School of Medicine faculty and students to cut the risk of abuse, contains lessons for everyone

    • Diets with adequate protein—and in particular protein from plants such as these red and brown lentils—showed fewer signs of low-grade, age-related chronic inflammation
      Health and Wellness
      Increasing Protein Intake May Curb Age-Related Inflammation

      For adults around sixty, low-grade, age-related chronic inflammation is associated with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer

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

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

    • Stronger Together Illustration
      Stronger Together

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

       

    • Food Calculator
      Is This Finally the End of Counting Calories?
    • State of the State image
      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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Arts and Culture

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

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