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11 unusual facts about Tufts University


Frank Burr Mallory

Mallory received honorary degrees from Tufts University (Sc.D., 1928) and Boston University (Sc.D., 1932), and was awarded the Kober medal in 1935 by the Association of American Physicians for outstanding service in pathology.

Frédéric Louis Ritter

Albert Metcalf bought his music library and gave it to Tufts University.

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

In 1998, Taiwanese American students at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University established the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA) to serve the many campuses in the Boston area.

Issam Fares

The Fares Lecture Series, the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, both at Tufts University, and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB) are named after him.

Peter F. Krogh

In 1958 he graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. cum laude in Economics and later received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Piney Woods Country Life School

More than 98 percent of Piney Woods' graduates go on to attend colleges, including Xavier University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, Smith College, Harvard University, Vassar College, Tufts University and Amherst College.

Ronald Hayman

In the 1970s he lectured on Shakespeare and the traditions of English acting for the Tufts University of London program.

Suzanne Tremblay

Born in Montreal, Tremblay received a Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship to attend Tufts University in the United States, where she earned a Master's degree in pre-school education.

Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship

Thomas R. Pickering, a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, held the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the U.S. Foreign Service.

World Peace Foundation

The World Peace Foundation is an operating foundation affiliated with The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Zander Kirkland

Kirkland was involved with sailing from a young age, and sailed in college at Tufts University in Massachusetts.


Alan Khazei

Khazei is married to Vanessa Kirsch, a social entrepreneur and graduate of Tufts University who has established several philanthropic organizations, most recently New Profit Inc., a group that provides grants to innovative social projects.

Dan Hedaya

In 2006, Hedaya received the P.T. Barnum Award from Tufts University for his exceptional work in the field of media and entertainment.

Frank Schimmelfennig

During his studies, Schimmelfennig had research stays in Dijon, France and at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Hussein Ibish

Ibish has accepted a number of invitations for talks, lectures and debates at colleges and universities, including Yale Law School, Harvard Business School, Princeton, MIT, Tufts University, Georgetown University, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), The New School (formerly the New School for Social Research), North Carolina State University, University of California, Irvine and the University of Costa Rica.

Jack Fultz

As of November 2008, Fultz is an instructor of sport psychology at Tufts University, a fitness consultant and personal coach, and a training consultant to the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge.

James S. Robbins

He received a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) and Ph.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Joseph Fort Newton

Newton held the honorary degrees of Doctor of Hebrew Literature (Coe College, 1912), Doctor of Divinity (Tufts University, 1919), Doctor of Humane Letters (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1926), and Doctor of Laws (Temple University, 1929).

Kostas Karamanlis

Kostas Karamanlis, a nephew of former Greek President Konstantinos Karamanlis, was born in Athens and studied at University of Athens Law School and at the private Deree College, continuing with postgraduate studies in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the United States, where he gained a master's degree and a doctorate in political sciences, international relations and diplomatic history.

Legatum Prosperity Index

The Prosperity Index is reviewed and critiqued by an advisory panel of academics and scholars representing a range of disciplines and includes: Prof Tim Besley(London School of Economics); Dr. Daniel Drezner (Tufts University); Dr. Carol Graham (Brookings Institution); Dr. Edmund Malesky (University of California, San Diego); Dr. Ann Owen (Hamilton College).

Lenore Malen

It was installed at the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland (2012); Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA (2011); and Wave Hill, NY (2010).

Mark Coogan

He has served as head coach of numerous cross country teams, including at Phillips Exeter Academy and Tufts University, and coached the distance runners at MIT for three years.

Matthew Koss

He received his AB degree from Vassar College in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from Tufts University in 1989.

Mountain Vista Governor's School

Top acceptances for the Class of 2011 have included Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Purdue University.

Neil Cohn

Cohn spent several years as an independent scholar before studying under linguist Ray Jackendoff and psychologists Gina Kuperberg and Phillip Holcomb at Tufts University where he received his PhD in psychology in 2012.

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.

Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund

eBay founder and social entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam donated $100 million to their alma mater Tufts University to create the fund, which will offer millions of tiny loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Peter Tufts House

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

Pine School

Since then, TPS graduates have been accepted to the finest colleges in the nation, including Yale University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the United States Military Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, Boston College, Pomona College, Swarthmore College, Davidson College, Tufts University, Vanderbilt University, Wesleyan University, and more.

Seth Horan

Key to this goal was building a following on the college circuit, and he made the rounds at numerous New York and Massachusetts, such as the University at Buffalo, Medaille College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Keuka College, and Tufts University.

Similac

Similac (for "similar to lactation") is a brand of infant formula that was developed by Alfred Bosworth of Tufts University and marketed by Abbott Laboratories.

Staś Kmieć

Kmieć graduated from Tufts University and the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Studium Folklorzystczne in Lublin, Poland - graduating with distinguished honors (z wyróżnieniem).

Sugata Bose

Bose taught at Tufts University from the mid-1980s until 2001, when he accepted the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University.

T. Michael Kerr

Kerr graduated from Tufts University and holds a Masters Degree in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Talloires Declaration

Jean Mayer, Tufts University president, convened a conference of 22 universities in 1990 in Talloires, France.

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.