"Queering Childhood" and Centering Children in Liberations Movements
While ageism has become common discourse in the workplace, it is seldom used to discuss its youngest class of affected people: children....
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Windmills, Jackhammers, and Head Spins: Students Take on Hip-Hop Dance
Never say that Tufts instructors don’t get down. On a Monday evening in one of the Jackson dance studios, Taylor Travassos-Lomba is...
Bloomer’s Garden: “Planting Seeds of Curiosity” in Tufts’ Backyard
As a bustling college campus, it is easy to forget that Tufts lies within a broader community of families and educators. Professor Jess...
Dancing on the Edge: Women in American Politics
1920, 84, 23—only three of the many numbers that represent the position of women in America. For Katie Swimm, these numbers form a...
A Trying Time: “American Witches” in Modern America
From grotesque green origins, portrayals of the witch in American culture have ranged from the bubbly misadventures of Sabrina the...
Harvesting Solar: ExCollege Students Explore Renewable Energy
Ask anyone at Tufts about renewable energy, and you’re likely to open the floodgates to enthusiastic prognostics about its future...
Cat or Dog Person? It's All "One Health"
When it comes to environmental issues, solutions are multifold. Much like the interplay between organ systems within our body, how humans...
Imagining Happiness: How one First-Year Course is “Finding Meaning” on the Tufts Campus
As first-years grapple with the transition into college, one of the most difficult challenges facing our young Jumbos is the search for...
Let's Roll the Dice: Board Games, Simulations, and their Real-World Applications
When’s the last time you played a game? Maybe it was Candy Crush on your work break, or a late-night Settlers of Catan session with...
From Serial to This American Life: Students Embrace Podcasts and the Chance to Create Them
Podcasts are hot right now. Chances are that if you’re not listening to series such as “Serial,” “The Joe Rogan Experience, or “This...
A Trip to the Beeyond: Students in "From Bees to Beetles" Visit the Starks Lab
When I joined her ExCollege course, From Bees to Beetles: Insect Pollinators and Real-World Science, Rachael Bonoan was asking students...
Kings of Memedom: Harnessing the Power of Memes
In the halls of Eaton, a building more than a century old, Michael Kiang and Aidan Rowan (both Class of 2020) are exploring the impact of...
The Universe Illuminated by Women
This Spring 2018 ExCollege course challenged the narrative that advancements in STEM fields are historically made by (white) men. It...
Neurosis: A Musical That Gets in Your Head
Tufts alum Allan Rice (A’04) is set to premier his new musical, Neurosis, at the Daryl Roth Theater in Union Square, New York City....
Medicinal Plants: From the Sacred to the Scientific
How can we discern medicinal plant facts from fiction while also honoring the human foundations of drug discovery? This was the question...
Voices from the Edge: Tracy Heather Strain
On a rainy evening in April, the ExCollege proudly welcomed Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain for our...
Crowdfunding Campaign a Smashing Success!
If April is the cruelest month, March was the kindest and most generous at the ExCollege. Experimenting with the university’s new...
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