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New & Notable

The Art of Papermaking

In an SMFA class, students transform messy pulp into objects of art
Two Faculty Named Radcliffe Fellows

Moon Duchin and Aniruddh Patel get the awards on the heels of recent Guggenheim honors
The Causes of Conflict

Wars shaped Zviad Adzinbaia’s early life, so he came to the Fletcher School to better understand how to avert them
Putinomics and Russia’s Future

A Fletcher School professor tells how Vladimir Putin uses economics to maintain control over Russia
A Heartfelt Profession

A graduating dentist first discovered her calling at Tufts special-needs clinics
Catching Every Cancer Cell While in Surgery

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

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