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11 Students Honored with Tufts 2025 Presidential Awards for Civic Life

The Presidential Award for Civic Life is the highest recognition for service, leadership, and civic engagement conferred by Tufts University.

See the Honorees!

Grid of headshots of 2025 Presidential Award for Civic Life honorees

Tufts Civic Semester

First year students can join this transformational first-semester program combines academic and experiential learning with a focus on community engagement and social and environmental justice based in either Urubamba, Peru, or Chiang Mai, Thailand,

Students pose for a selfie on a hike in Peru

Commencement 2025

Join us as we celebrate the civic leadership of Tufts 2025 graduates!

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.

Tisch College News

Left to Right: Dean Helen Boucher, Melissa Calica, M25, and her faculty coach James Bartz, a physician at Newton-Wellesley Hospital

Showing Up, Leaning In, and Leading with Heart

Presidential Award honoree Melissa Calica, M25, is recognized for her wide-ranging civic engagement and steady leadership.

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Study Finds Surprising Link Between Political Views and Self-Reported Wellness

Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner comments a new collaborative study examining how individuals with different political views rate their personal well-being concluding, “It may very well be that conservatives have better mental health than liberals, but I do think that our study raises some serious questions about the extent to which that is actually true.”