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February 2010

Springing Into Action

Undergraduates share what they are looking forward to most about the spring semester.

Crowdsourcing Crisis Response

Led by The Fletcher School's Patrick Meier, Tufts became a hub for online crisis mapping hours after Haiti's destructive quake.

January 2010

Engineering Humanity

Engineering graduate student Sampathkumar Veerarghavan is helping keep track of the underrepresented disabled population in India.

Welcoming Back the Bubs

Members of both Tufts and its surrounding communities joined together on Jan. 21 to welcome the Beelzebubs back to campus after their run onNBC's The Sing Off.

Tufts Alum Wins U.S. Senate Bid

Mass. State Sen. Scott Brown, a 1981 Tufts graduate, won the special election to serve the remainder of Ted Kennedy's term in the U.S. Senate.

A Familiar Connection

Documentary filmmaker Justine Shapiro seeks to show life in Iran beyond the newspaper headlines in her latest documentary "My Summer in Tehran."

Comic Relief

Sophomore Chase Gregory puts a unique spin on the telling of her Tufts experience, documenting it in comic form.

Thoughts on a New Decade

Members of the Tufts community share their outlook for the new decade ahead of us.

Featured Profile

Tufts Fact

Did You Know?

Tufts is one of a handful of universities in the United States participating in the OpenCourseWare initiative, publishing select course materials on the Internet free of charge for teachers, students and self-learners around the world.

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Notable and Quotable

Dr. Matthew Falagas, a professor at the School of Medicine says it is a mistake that adult patients currently receive the same medication dose regardless of a variation in size. To make his point, Falagas compares himself, 6-foot-2 and 198 pounds, with a female student who is 5 feet tall and 120 pounds.

“If we go with the same diagnosis of pneumonia or bronchitis to a New York hospital today, we will be given the same dose of antibiotics. I should receive almost twice the dose compared with her.”

Dr. Matthew Falagas
Adjunct Associate Professor
New York Times
January 19, 2010