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Classroom to Clinic: A Patient of One’s Own

Treating a boisterous blue jay proves a good starting point for a veterinarian in training
The Emotional Chaos of War

A new novel by former Marine Elliot Ackerman focuses on hope and despair in Syria
Running Circles Around the Competition

Tufts men’s track and field team wins its fifth New England Division III Indoor Championship and its first since 2008
Political Science Fieldwork for Undergrads

Students learn that things such as coffee shops, American flags and even Halloween decorations offer insights into voter behavior in a community
Poetry as Cure

Medical student Jessica Evans-Wall is well-versed in caring for young patients
Mortality Between the Covers

Modernist writers like Joyce and Woolf never forgot that books are finite objects, or that we ourselves are finite beings

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