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About Tufts

Tufts is a leader in American higher education, distinctive for its success as a moderately sized university that excels at research and providing students with a personal experience. Our unique combination of research and liberal arts attracts students, faculty and staff who thrive in our environment of curiosity, creativity and engagement.

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University Leadership

Tufts at a Glance

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Libraries

Tufts' libraries across all campuses provide essential resources, information and technology to support your studies, scholarship and research.

Tisch Library

Ginn Library (The Fletcher School)

Hirsh Health Sciences Library

Webster Family Library (Veterinary)

W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library (SMFA)

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Careers

As a Tufts employee, you become part of a community of hard-working, intellectually curious and creative individuals. We offer a wide range of employment opportunities and resources to support Tufts’ diverse academic environment

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Faculty Openings

Human Resources

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Research

Research at Tufts is about breaking down walls—between fields, between faculty and students, between what is and what could be. Innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration are the foundations of discovery at Tufts. Our world-class researchers push boundaries and ask questions that will take our knowledge to the next level.

Centers & Institutes

Office of the Vice Provost for Research

Technology Transfer & Industry Collaboration

Corporate & Foundation Relations Libraries

New & Notable

The Mystery of Multitasking

Cognitive psychologist Nathan Ward studies what goes on in our brains when we try to do two or more things at once

Researchers devise more effective location awareness for the Internet-of-(many)-Things

The vast number of devices connected on 5G networks can help locate themselves, rather than rely on centralized “anchors”
Early life trauma in men associated with reduced levels of sperm microRNAs

In mice, the same changes to sperm miRNAs occur and are transmitted to the next generation
Food price policy and mortality: How to even the playing field for participants in SNAP

A modeling study of food subsidies and food taxes suggests deaths from cardiometabolic disease could be reduced
Catching Every Cancer Cell While in Surgery

A veterinary surgeon at Tufts tests an experimental imaging technology on dogs being treated for cancer

Spotlights

Kaplan Lab

Focuses on biopolymer engineering to understand structure-function relationships, with emphasis on studies related to self-assembly, biomaterials engineering, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC)

Helps meet the need for updated classrooms, large meeting rooms, teaching labs, research labs, and office space, and includes a café and informal learning spaces.
Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)

Established to promote innovative collaborations in the humanities and arts. Encourages conversation and debate that reach beyond the traditional borders of a given discipline.
Science and Engineering Complex (SEC)

Currently under construction, the new complex will be an integrated teaching and research center on the Medford/Somerville campus featuring state-of-the-art laboratories for undergraduate and graduate students.
Tisch College Community Research Center

Promotes collaborative research with community partners to redress issues of disparity, inequality and social injustice.