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Solomont Speaker Series: Ann Wolbert Burgess

Meet Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., APRN, FAAN, the renowned forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI profiles and catches serial killers and inspired the Hulu documentary “Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer” and the popular Netflix series, “Mindhunter" on Thursday, Apr. 3.
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Tufts Civic Semester

Incoming Tufts students can apply for this transformational first-semester program combining academic and experiential learning with a focus on community engagement and social and environmental justice in either Urumbaba, Peru or Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Big Data for Democracy

Tisch College has one of the biggest research teams in the U.S. devoted to understanding the challenges to our democracy—and the opportunities to build and sustain it. We use that scholarship to inform our own programming at Tufts and to drive national conversations about voting and elections, the role of citizens, the health of democratic institutions, and the power of young people.

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Find Your Civic Pathway

At Tisch College, every Tufts student—whatever their field of study, school or degree program—has a pathway to civic engagement.

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Find Your Civic Pathway

At Tisch College, every Tufts student—whatever their field of study, school or degree program—has a pathway to civic engagement.

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Tisch College News

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Jewish community must stand up to Trump’s targeting of international students

Dean Emeritus Alan Solomont pens this opinion piece about the circumstances surrounding the federal government’s detention of GSAS student Rumeysa Öztürk on March 25, encouraging the Jewish community to speak out against the targeting of international students, which contradicts “Jewish values that teach us to pursue justice and to recognize the inherent dignity of every person, as well as the academic principles of free inquiry.”
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Trump’s policies are endangering the economy

Tisch College’s Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner and Caroline Soler, A25, discuss their research, using Cooperative Election Study data from the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, that found that personal economic circumstances influence presidential vote choice.
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Virtues & Vocations

The Spirit of Freedom

Can courage of conviction co-exist with civic virtue? Check out Dean Cunningham’s latest article, published in the journal Virtues & Vocations, on The Spirit of Freedom: Black Thought, Civic Virtue, and the Courage to Transform Democracy.
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Events

Apr
07

Solomont Speaker Series: Seth Moulton

Apr
09

Tufts Community Symposium 2025

Apr
10

Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich on Bees, Sustainability, and Environmental Impact

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