UPDATE:
Starting July 1, the Tufts International Travel Policy will require advanced registration through the Tufts Travel Registry for university business-related international travel.
The Plague, Rare but Still Around, Is Both Preventable and Treatable
The bacteria that caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages persists in the U.S. and abroad, but human deaths are largely avoidable
In France, Lessons on How Culture Shapes What We Eat
A new two-week course in global nutrition takes graduate students to farmers markets, family farms, and the U.N.
Juna Hatta-Langedyk’s Desire for a Healthier Future
The Tufts senior is striving for better health outcomes through her research and volunteer work
How Does the Constitutional Separation of Powers Affect U.S. Foreign Policy?
More than 30 experts will discuss implications of increasingly exclusive executive control of foreign affairs in a conference Sept. 24–25
History Hidden Under the Glaciers
Climate researcher Allie Balter-Kennedy, named a top young American scientist by Scientific American, digs under the Greenland ice sheet for clues about past warming, with an eye to the future
Tufts Global In the News
His Parents Immigrated to the U.S. 25 Years Ago. Now, This Medical Student Is Helping Them ‘Achieve Their Dream' of Opening a Restaurant
People
School of Medicine student Dan Nguyen is helping his parents fulfill their dream by handling the communications for the restaurant Tony Pho, set to open in the next few months in East Longmeadow, Mass.
Missing ambassadors, inexperienced appointees – is Washington dropping the diplomatic ball?
The Conversation
Fletcher’s Donald Heflin shares his concerns regarding absent or inexperienced U.S. ambassadors and the State Department’s approach to the staffing of embassies, which are creating “a distinct problem for national security and strategic interests.”
What is pneumonic plague? Boston doctor says it does not have the same pandemic potential as COVID-19
WBZ/CBS Boston
Fletcher Visiting Professor Mikhail Troitskiy says “there's not likely to be significant trust in what local and even federal authorities in Russia are saying” regarding reports that a Russian lab worker has died from pneumonic plague.