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How Rural Women Advance India’s Sustainable Future

Ajaita Shah’s innovative  “tech + trust” model has built a network of women entrepreneurs bringing clean energy and climate solutions to millions of households

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.

Group photo of the participants in the third Presidents' Conference on the Environment

New AI Tool Reveals How Drugs Kill Tuberculosis

Tufts researchers’ approach uncovers how TB treatments can best work together at the cellular level to speed better cures

A “death portrait” of TB bacteria treated with an antibiotic and stained to show physical features of individual cells.

Does Climate Change Lead to Conflict?

Tufts researcher shows connection between low rainfall and the outbreak of civil wars between African pastoralists and farmers

Herders on dusty dirt road with large number of thin goats with scattered trees in the background. Tufts researcher shows direct connection between low rainfall and the outbreak of civil wars between pastoralists and farmers in Africa

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

Cote d’Ivoire laboratory staff undergo biosafety training on sampling collection procedures at the waste discharge area of a rural hospital.

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

A photo of the ruin of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall in Hiroshima, Japan