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unusual facts about Tufts



Agrias

Males of all Agrias species have prominent yellow tufts of androconial scales on the hindwings.These disperse pheromones for attracting suitable mates.

Amy Birnbaum

Birnbaum sang with The Amalgamates at Tufts University and won critical acclaim for her solo work on their recordings.

Araucana

The current North American standard calls for a chicken that is rumpless (missing their last vertebrae and lacking a tail), possesses ear-tufts (feathers that grow out from near the birds' ears), and lays blue eggs.

Barbara M. Brizuela

Prior to that, she received a Master of Arts, General Studies in Education from Tufts and a Licenciada en Ciencias Pedagógicas and Licenciada en Psicopedagogía degrees from the Universidad de Belgrano.

Cary Granat

In 2005, Granat received the P.T. Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

Cotton Tufts

Cotton Tufts (born in Medford, Massachusetts, 30 May 1734; died in Weymouth, Massachusetts, 8 December 1815) was a Massachusetts physician.

Cristina Rémond

Prior to being accepted to Harvard Divinity School, she studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

David Kantor

After Harvard, Kantor was an Assistant Professor of Clinical psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine from 1965–1975, during which time he also served as first Director of Psychological Research (1966–1969), Director, Center for Training in Family Therapy (1968–1975), and Chief Psychologist (1969–1975) at Boston State Hospital.

Delta Sigma

Delta Sigma Sorority, a collegiate sorority founded in 1895 at Tufts University and later absorbed by Alpha Omicron Pi

Dipogon bifasciatus

The generic name, Dipogon, refers to the tufts of forward-pointing bristles on the maxilla of the female the purpose of which is to pack the nest entrance with old spider silk.

Edward R. Murrow Award

Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy, given to a U.S. State Department employee by the Fletcher School at Tufts University

F.W. Olin Hall

Other universities that have buildings as a result of the F.W. Olin Foundation are Johns Hopkins University, Colgate, Marquette, Tufts, and the University of San Diego, amongst many others.

Fred Ellis

Frederick M. Ellis (1906–1967), American athlete, coach, professor, head football coach at Tufts University (1946–1952)

Frederick Hamilton

Frederick W. Hamilton (1860–1940), US businessman and president of Tufts University

Government Girl

Sonny Tufts, borrowed from Paramount to star, was paired with Olivia De Havilland, who had run into studio politics at Warner Bros. on her last feature, Princess O'Rourke (1943) that had resulted in first, her suspension, and subsequent "assignment" by studio boss Jack Warner to producer David O. Selznick in return for Ingrid Bergman, whom Warner cast in Casablanca (1942).

Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging

On August 1, 1979, the Cooperative Agreement between Tufts University and the USDA was signed, and on October 23 of the same year, the National Institute on Aging and the USDA signed a Memorandum of Understanding detailing their mutual interest in the HNRCA at Tufts University.

James Hayden Tufts

With John Dewey and George Herbert Mead (both of whom Tufts was instrumental in bringing to the University), Tufts was a co-founder of the Chicago School of Pragmatism.

Tufts believed in a conception of mutual influences which he saw as opposed in both Marxism & idealism.

James Walker Tufts

James Walker Tufts (February 11, 1835 – February 3, 1902), is probably best known for his founding of The Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina (USA).

Jeff Greenstein

In 2009 Greenstein received the P.T. Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service

In 2006, the school was renamed after a $40 million gift from Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels and Loews Corporation and a trustee of Tufts University.

Lymantriidae

In The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, the character Pappachi discovers a new species of lymantriid with "unusually dense dorsal tufts".

Montserrat Teixidor i Bigas

She is the most senior of three Principal Investigators for the Poincaré Institute, which was launched in 2011 with funding from the NSF, which announced : receiving $9,550,799, Tufts University (Medford) for the project, entitled “The Poincare Institute: A Partnership for Mathematics Education,” which is under the direction of Montserrat Teixidor-i-Bigas.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

Peter Tufts House

Charles Tufts (1781–1876), a descendant of Peter Tufts Sr. would later donate land for the campus of Tufts University.

Sean Tufts

After retiring from the NFL in 2006, Tufts returned to the University of Colorado at Boulder to pursue his Master of Business Administration at the university's Leeds School of Business.

Stuart Levy

Stuart B. Levy, microbiology researcher and physician at Tufts University

Talloires Declaration on the Civic Roles and Social Responsibilities of Higher Education

In September 2005, President Lawrence Bacow of Tufts University convened the Talloires Conference 2005, at Tufts University's European Center in Talloires, France.

Thereza

Thereza Imanishi-Kari, an Associate Professor of Pathology at Tufts University

Tiger Force

On October 19, 2003, Michael D. Sallah, a reporter at The Blade (Toledo) newspaper, obtained unreleased, confidential records of U.S. Army commander Henry Tufts.

Tufts Medical Center

Tufts Medical Center is part of the consortium of hospitals which operates Boston MedFlight, and is equipped with a rooftop helipad.

Tufts University in popular culture

Jordan Cavanaugh, title character from Crossing Jordan, played by Jill Hennessy, graduated from Tufts' medical school.

In the episode "Investor's Meeting" of Party Down, Kyle befriends a young man while bartending who mentions his father will buy him a Bose sound system if he makes dean's list at Tufts.

Victor Prather

He graduated from Tufts in 1945 and then attended Tufts University School of Medicine, graduating there in 1952.

Warren Tufts

Because Tufts was a perfectionist who often worked 80-hour weeks, he had trouble meeting deadlines, even though he had help from numerous assistants and ghosts: Nick Cardy, Ruben Moreira, Al Plastino and Alex Toth.

William Holmes Crosby Jr.

In 1965, after more than 25 years of service, he retired from the Army to succeed William Dameshek at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.


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