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About E-News

Looking for the most up-to-date news about Tufts? Whether you're a student, professor, parent or alum, Tufts E-News is here to keep you in the know!

Created in 2000 by the Office of Public Relations and maintained by the Office of Web Communications, E-News was the first comprehensive university-wide electronic news channel at Tufts and currently provides Tufts news coverage to more than 25,000 e-mail subscribers and more than 10,000 monthly website visitors from the U.S. and around the world.

E-News stories cover faculty research, student activities on campus and beyond, unique alumni and other Tufts newsmakers and events.

Our editorial staff is constantly trying to uncover unique and inspiring stories from across our three campuses, showcasing the best that Tufts has to offer. You'll be proud to see how often Tufts and the members of its community are making news!

Want us to bring the news to you? Subscribe to our newsletter! Every Monday, a digest of the top stories from E-News is automatically sent to thousands of subscribers. You can also subscribe to our RSS feed to read stories as soon as they are posted.

We hope you enjoy E-News. And if you see an article, website, or news item we may have missed, please let us know.

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Every year, students in the "Ghana Gold: A Corporate Social Responsibility" class travel to Ghana for two weeks, exploring the gold industry of the country. Meeting with various artists, businessmen and workers, students are challenged to think about strategies, resources and related skills that may improve the lives of people living in mining communities.

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Notable and Quotable

In recent years, texting has cropped up as a popular driving distraction, but the latest studies show that the growth of driving while eating may be a bigger problem. Anthropology Professor Stephen Bailey discusses the theory that people are time-starved as a common thread in the rise of this trend.

When we're multitasking, what we're thinking about is how important we must be to have to do all these things all at once... [And] the ultimate kind of multitasking is actually feeding yourself while you're doing other stuff.

Stephen Bailey
Professor of anthropology and nutrition
Boston Globe
October 14, 2009