Seeds of Innovation

The university’s liberal arts tradition and its unusual constellation of professional schools foster an innate capacity for innovation. The campaign infused teaching, learning, research, and clinical care with the resources to excel:

• Arts and Sciences
  
  • Tufts Experimental College, Institute for Applied Research
  • The Center for the Humanities at Tufts
  • The E.M. Fung Humanities Fellows
  • GDAE (Global Development and Environment) Theory & Education program
  • Institute for Global Leadership’s EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) program
  • Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development (Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development)
  • A new minor in Leadership Studies
• Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
  
  • A Master of Science in Conservation Medicine; a shelter medicine program
  • An endowed fund for wildlife medicine
  • The Harrington Oncology Program
  • The Agnes Varis Campus Center and its adjoining auditorium
  • A new Tufts Ambulatory Service building in Woodstock, Connecticut
  • The Leveen Family Fund MRI Wing
• School of Dental Medicine
  
  • The $68 million Vertical Expansion Initiative
  • A five-floor expansion and a symbol of innovation and leadership
  • Significant additions to clinical space
  • Doubling of spaces devoted to four specialties
  • A simulation clinic, a state-of-the-art continuing education facility
  • A postgraduate endodontic space, as well as gifts to advance clinical services, teaching, and research, such as a naming gift for the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic
• School of Engineering
  
  • Engineers Without Borders
  • Engineering leadership programs
  • The Civic Engagement Fund
  • Alternative energy research (including hybrid-car racing team)
  • Foundation support for researchers collaborating on the Biomimetic Technologies for Soft-bodied Robots project
• Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
  
  • A new Master of International Business
  • Center for Emerging Markets and the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies
  • The Cultural Change Institute and cross-disciplinary work with the Friedman School in the field of human security
• Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  
  • The Sustainable Farming Program and International Famine Center
  • The Children in Balance Initiative to fight childhood obesity, expanding the community intervention model, Shape Up Somerville, to three more communities
• The School of Medicine
  
  • A $15 million transformation of the Sackler student center and a new Clinical Skills and Simulation Center
  • A new Fund for Innovation in Neuroscience aims to expand the breadth and impact of research on Alzheimer’s disease
  • Gates Foundation Global Health Initiative support for investigators at the School of Medicine and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine on the development of heat-resistant vaccines
  • Renovated lab space for research into gene-based treatments for leading causes of blindness at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
• Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service
  
  • The Talloires Network, an international association of institutions committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education
  • The Goldberg Civic Engagement Initiative, facilitating collaboration among government, academia, and community groups to solve some of Boston’s most pressing issues