Tufts University

Jessica Perry Hekman, V12, VG12, now a postdoctoral associate at the Karlsson Lab, is studying how genetics affects canine behavior. In this interview, she talks about dog anxiety, the influence of genetics, and lessons she’s learned from her own dogs that she chronicles on her blog “The Dog Zombie”.

Led by Roger Gu, who had a hand in setting nine meet records, the men's swimming and diving team won their first-ever New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship this weekend. Read more about this historic Jumbos’ victory.

Getting an injection at the doctor’s office is never a fun thing, but a new approach is on the horizon, thanks to a Tufts research team led by Sameer Sonkusale, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. Read more about microneedles and the need to create affordable devices for the developing world.

In a recent Bloomberg article, Parke Wilde, a professor at Tufts University in Boston, comments on a Trump administration plan to replace food-stamp spending with boxes of “100 percent American grown food”. “Potential problems with such an initiative range from the logistics to stigmatizing the poor”, says Wilde.

Kendra Field, an assistant professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, tells the story of the post-civil War migration by African Americans to Indian Territory. She now brings that story to a wider audience in a new book, Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race and the Nation after the Civil War.