Tufts University News

How does one sum up 35 years worth of devotion and inspiration? Central Bucks East High School students and alumni did their best to do just that on Saturday night.

While speculation surrounds the driving and safety circumstances of the crash in New Zealand that killed three Boston University students, an investigation into other schools' study abroad safety policies reveals students' independence varies when studying internationally.

By Salgu Wissmath Jesuit High School seniors walked across the stage to receive their diplomas during the school's 46th annual commencement exercises at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium on Saturday morning.

The author of the article states that what works is unstructured exploration in settings that do not try to give 3- and 4-year-olds an early start on academic performance.

Garrett Hendren, Mesilla Valley Christian boys basketball standout student athlete, has committed to play his collegiate basketball at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass.

Richard M. Medura of Marco Island, Florida passed away on May 21st, 2012. He was the husband of the late Gertrude C. Medura and the son of the late Mary C. and Melchior D. Medura.

The competition was designed to identify and reward the most creative, impactful, and scalable school-based programs and technologies to promote children's physical activity.

A Editor's Note: Lake Forest High School seniors finished classes May 23. This is the fourth in a series of Q&A articles appearing periodically between now and June 2 when Lake Forest's Class of 2012 graduates.

The Tufts University Art Gallery at the Shirley and Alex Aidekman Arts Center proudly presents The Boston-Jo'burg Connection: Collaboration and Exchange at Artist Proof Studio, 1983-2012. The exhibition will include more than 150 individual and collaborative fine art prints spanning some twenty-five years by several dozen artists from Boston and ... (more)

GRAFTON, Mass. - Add another exotic animal to the list of animals aided by experts at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine: Kitombe, a western lowland gorilla at the Franklin Park Zoo.

This week, a study published in Neuron by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco reported successful results from an experiment to alleviate chronic pain in mice by transplanting neurons into their spinal cords.

The NBC Nightly News camera team was in Brodheadsville Wednesday taping Monroe County's Penn State Cooperative Extension's Strong Women/ Change Club program this morning, and interviewed the instructor, Carmela Heard, Kunkletown.

U.S. Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, founder of St. Louis-based The Mission Continues, the nonprofit that challenges veterans to serve their communities, got a shout out from CNN contributor and former U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett for his commencement speech at Tufts University on Sunday.

Erik Lindgren,: composer and pianist will play with the Lindgren and Consort. This trio includes Lea Botta, flute, and Torben Hansen, clarinet.

A new exhibit opening May 31 at the Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum features the art and design of Sanford native Elwyn George Gowen .

Editor's note: William J. Bennett , a CNN contributor, is the author of "The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood." He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H.W. Bush.

With the school year winding down, Tufts University administrators met recently with students planning to study abroad, outlining what they should do before they leave and what to expect when they arrive.

When people hold a resume placed on a heavy clipboard compared to a light clipboard, they think the person with the heavy resume is more important; when people are asked to make moral appraisals in a room that smells bad they make harsher moral judgments compared to making same ethical judgments in a nice smelling room; and last but not the least, ... (more)

U.S. Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, CEO of The Mission Continues delivers the commencement address at Tufts University's 156th Commencement on Sunday, May 20, 2012.

Hilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts was named a regional winner today in a nationwide competition designed to identify and reward the country’s most creative, effective and scalable school-based programs and technologies to promote children’s physical activity.