UPDATE:
Starting July 1, the Tufts International Travel Policy will require advanced registration through the Tufts Travel Registry for university business-related international travel.
Tufts’ Fulbright Fellows Embark on Global Journeys of Discovery
Eight Tufts alumni participating in the Fulbright U.S. Student program reflect on what they hope to learn from working and living outside of their home country
A Tufts-Led, Historic Commitment to Sustainability
Thirty-five years ago, Tufts guided other universities to the creation of the Talloires Declaration. Its legacy endures today.
Does Climate Change Lead to Conflict?
Tufts researcher shows connection between low rainfall and the outbreak of civil wars between African pastoralists and farmers
Can Wastewater Surveillance Work Without Sewers?
Study shows how places without modern sanitation systems can still use wastewater to catch outbreaks before dangerous diseases travel across borders
A Tufts Professor’s Mission to Share Hiroshima’s Stories
The vision of Tadatoshi Akiba transformed local reporting into a tool for global empathy, reshaping how Americans understood the atomic bombings
Tufts Global In the News
An ancient disease makes yet another comeback
National Public Radio
Daniele Lantagne of the Friedman School’s Feinstein International Center comments on how the crumbling of infrastructure systems during conflict can lead to contaminated water supplies that transmit cholera.
Deadly landslide in Sudan highlights challenges of getting aid to conflict zones
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal joins this episode of The World to discuss the landslide that decimated a village in western Sudan, where civil war is complicating aid from the international community.
Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon
Financial Times
Fletcher’s Alex de Waal, director of the World Peace Foundation, discusses rise in global famines, including the latest declared in Gaza, noting, “over the past few years we have seen the numbers dying from starvation begin to escalate in a terrifying way.” Data from the World Peace Foundations database of Historic Famines is also referenced.