Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Political scientist Jeffrey Berry thinks that Rick Santorum will face increased scrutiny as his popularity rises with Republican voters.

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Their classrooms are in northern Uganda, where they learned firsthand about the brutality of the Lord’s Resistance Army, and in Tunisia, where the protest of a man not much older than they gave rise to the Arab Spring, after police prevented him from peddling his fruits and vegetables. Inside Oman’s posh Diplomatic Club, they discovered the complex relationship between the seaside sultanate and Iran. Oman, writes Joe Sax, A15, represents the “convergence of the old and new, the Arab and the Western, the modern and the traditional.”

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. - Tufts University today announced that it is establishing a Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD). The university-wide center will stimulate research and debate on race and democracy in the United States and around the world.

 The announcement comes as Tufts' School of Arts and Sciences prepares to hold its biennial, national conference "Barack Obama and American Democracy" on March 1-3.

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Tufts is hosting a symposium on race and democracy as part of efforts to expand diversity on campus.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

This is a positive review of the new show at the Tufts University Art Gallery, "Nancy Holt: Sightlines."

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

David Henry Feldman has been exploring the world of gifted children and prodigies throughout his career. His collaboration with Howard Gardner at Harvard helped set the groundwork for what has become known as the theory of multiple intelligences, the idea that there are many types of intelligence.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Tufts students visited Medford High School to help students build solar cells.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Political scientist Jeffrey Berry says it's "sloppy thinking" for Newt Gingrich to assert that U.S. government is becoming more and more liberal.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Greek economics expert Yannis Ioannides gives some insight on how Greece can rebound from their crippling debt.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Mary Jane Shultz almost died when she was a few weeks old.

She came down with a mysterious illness on her family’s farm in rural Minnesota. “At first, it was called ‘failure to thrive,’ ” Shultz says. “I just couldn’t gain weight, and was wasting away. The doctors couldn’t put their finger on it. But eventually, they tested our well, and figured out that it was the drinking water.”

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Daniel C. Dennett, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, has been awarded the 2012 Erasmus Prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.

The Erasmus Prize is an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to culture, society or social science. The prize money is €150,000. The award ceremony will take place this fall.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Economist Yannis Ioannides talks about the future of the Greek debt crisis.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering and adjunct professor of physics in the School of Arts and Sciences, has been elected a fellow to the Optical Society of America.

The OSA is a global organization with 130,000 members. It works to promote the science of light and the advanced technologies made possible by optics and photonics.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Political scientist Jeffrey Berry talks about the impact low voter turnout for the Republican primaries could have on the general election.

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Music professor Stephen Pennington explains why music makes people cry.

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Economist Yannis Ioannides talks about how Facebook revolutionized business interactions.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Classics professor Gregory Crane explains how Arabic translations of ancient Greek texts sparked the Renaissance.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Social psychologist Sam Sommers testified as an expert in a North Carolina trial on racial bias in jury selection.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

UEP professor James Jennings comments on public perception of "three-strikes" legislation.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

When Jack McDermott, A14, finished his midterm exams last fall, he hopped on the subway to meet his childhood friend, Michael Cotter, a student at Harvard. They were due to give a presentation about their new iPhone app, which offers on-the-go speech therapy, to the Harvard Tech Meetup, a loose organization of entrepreneurs, students, investors and engineers.