Remembering Gerald Gill

Gerald Gill, a gifted scholar and teacher, passed away last week. Members of the Tufts community are invited to share their thoughts and memories for an online tribute to Gill, who touched the lives of so many during his time at Tufts.

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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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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