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Sending Oral Health to the Middle East

Tufts dental students find a way to reach and teach kids in Lebanon, even in troubled times

Omar Harmouche, D21, MG21 (MPH), and Alia Osseiran, D22, demonstrate teeth brushing on a stuffed animal. Their nonprofit, Box for Health, helps children in Lebanon.

Biden’s Campaign Manager on Humanity and Healing a Nation

Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, J98, recalled her Tufts softball days and shared lessons from the virtual campaign trail as part of Tisch College’s Distinguished Speaker Series

Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, J98, campaign manager of Joe Biden's winning presidential campaign

Tufts in Madrid Offers Two Spring Semester Courses for All Tufts Students

Learn more about "Sketchbook: Drawing in Madrid" or "Reading at the Crossroads: Race, Class, Gender, Otherness in Hispanic Literatures"

Young person in a coffee shop reading a Spanish newspaper

Four Things Experts Have Learned From the Pandemic

Germs, disinformation, and inequities are easily spread, say COVID-19 researchers

New Yorkers wait outside an urgent care office for Covid-19 testing. Experts at the Tufts 2020 COVID-19 Research Symposium talk about lessons learned from the pandemic.

An Inuit Voice in the Arctic

Fletcher alumna Dalee Sambo Dorough advocates for Indigenous rights on the international stage

Portrait of Dalee Sambo Dorough, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, in the woods

WHO chief scientist, NEJM Editor Headline Tufts COVID-19 Symposium

The virtual, public event will address the pandemic’s impacts on health and society

A Push to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Tufts will head a global program that aims to stop new viruses from becoming a widespread danger to humans

A person dressed in personal protective gear walks next to a graveyard in Liberia. Tufts University will head a program that will work with 10 countries in Africa and Asia to halt the spread of emerging viruses that lead to diseases like Ebola and COVID-19.

Investing in Africa

Reeta Roy, CEO of Mastercard Foundation, defied critics and steered its $33 billion to help Africans solve the continent’s challenges

A woman meets with three female African mechanics in work clothes and hard hats. Reeta Roy, a Tufts Fletcher School alumna and president and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation, defied critics and steered its $33 billion to help Africans solve Africa’s problems.

Tisch College Launches Civic Action Gap Semester

The Civic Action Gap Semester is designed to allow high school graduates to undertake a virtual "volunteership" with a community organization across the Americas while earning college credit through coursework taught by Tufts faculty.

Students gather around a computer monitor. A chalkboard in the background has words written in Portuguese.

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