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What’s it like to be a student creating the future? Hear from Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program students Aslı Dirik and Timothée Leblond as they share their experiences working in the Tufts University Silklab alongside Professor and Director Fiorenzo Omenetto and his team. Discover how a "caterpillar of wonder" is forging a new pathway in materials science.

What's it like to be a member of this Tufts team? From swift solves to intricate techniques, these students are bringing puzzle enthusiasts together as they showcase not just speed but also their collaborative spirit. With a shared passion for skill, strategy, and camaraderie, watch as they navigate the twists and turns of the cube that turned 50 years old in 2024.

The entire Tufts community comes together on this global day of generosity to make a huge impact on current and future students, faculty, and research. Help the leaders of tomorrow by supporting what matters most to you at Tufts while securing matching funds for meaningful initiatives this #TuftsGivingTuesday

Alumni, students, and friends gathered on the Hill on September 14 to celebrate Homecoming with Tufts Athletics games and more!

Taught by Hosea Hirata, Professor of Japanese Literature at Tufts.In 1991, Professor Hirata met the now famous author Haruki Murakami at Princeton University. Since then, they have been friends. In this session, Professor Hirata will introduce Haruki as a writer and a person.

Led by Sam Sommers, Professor of Psychology at Tufts.How accurate is eyewitness testimony? How effective are polygraph tests? What factors influence a jury's deliberations? Drawing on perspectives from various areas of the field, psychological scientists have examined wide range of topics within the legal system, including police interrogations, lie detection, eyewitness memory, jury selection, jury decision-making, and the insanity defense. In this mock class, we will discuss highlights from this growing area of research, as well as the general benefits and limitations of efforts to apply psychological research to the real-world domain of the legal system.

Taught by Parke Wilde, Professor of Environmental Studies at Tufts UniversityLearn about tools and motivation for organized climate action, using interactive worksheets to practice quantitative planning subject to a science-based carbon budget, recognizing tradeoffs across environmental, economic, and social objectives.

Taught by David Denby, Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tufts.Free will makes you a person. Without it, you are not morally responsible for your actions, and the projects and commitments that your actions express and that give your life meaning would not really be yours at all. On the other hand, it is a fundamental presupposition of science, everyday thought, and perhaps rationality itself that every event has a cause. The problem is that universal causation seems to be incompatible with freewill. Being a person means acting freely; an intelligible world in which rational action is possible means universal causation, but we can’t have it both ways!

Digital Planet Chair Bhaskar Chakravorti and scholar-entrepreneur-Fletcher alum Olaf Groth discuss Groth's latest book "The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future."How the turmoil of recent years gives leaders an unprecedented opportunity to redesign global strategies and systems and to remobilize toward a smarter, more resilient, and equitable future.How can leaders faced with tremendous global upheaval create more resilient and trustworthy systems? In The Great Remobilization, Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse (along with research partner Dan Zehr) diagnose tectonic shifts in the global economy with an eye toward designing a smarter “operating system” for the world. Through their FLP-IT (forces, logic, phenomena, impact, and triage) framework for strategic leadership, the authors chart a path forward, providing guidance for a new breed of “design activist leader.” Focusing on key tectonic shifts they call the Five Cs—COVID and pandemic management, the cognitive economy and crypto, cybersecurity, climate change and carbon management, and China—they examine the implications that new forces and logics will have on countries, organizations, and individuals.Drawing from one hundred interviews and conversations with top-level executives, entrepreneurs, policymakers, diplomats, generals, scholars, and other leading experts from around the world, the authors show how to create new inclusive visions with the aim of rebuilding the trust that will allow for both human and economic growth. Insightful and forward-thinking, The Great Remobilization powerfully illustrates the rare opportunity that we have in this historic moment to actively redesign our fragile, overpressurized global systems and develop new strategies and leadership approaches for the future. Authored by three scholar-practitioners, their synthetic perspectives and insights are at once rooted in deep research and focused on relevance for leaders and their organizations.

Abiodun William spent years working with Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. His new book Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations (Oxford University Press) explores Annan’s legacy, examining Annan’s decisions during a turbulent period in world affairs and offering lessons for contemporary policymakers.Williams is a double alumnus of Fletcher, earning both a MALD and PhD from the school. Today, he teaches at Fletcher and Tisch College as a Professor of the Practice of International Politics.

By studying the causes and patterns of political violence, students can learn to build a more peaceful world, says Academic Dean Monica Duffy Toft.

Professors Abigail Linnington and Dick Shultz describe how the international security field of study asks difficult questions about war and peace to prepare students for today’s security landscape.

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Social media platforms have become the number one means of communication. Whether it's staying in touch with family members, networking with colleagues, following your favorite celebrities, or tracking breaking news, chances are you are doing it on Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, and other emerging platforms. In this session we will take a look at best practices for ensuring that our social media communications are as accessible as possible to people with disabilities.

This session explores the relationship between neurodiversity and digital content. Specifically, what should we be mindful of when creating websites, documents, presentations, emails and other forms of communication? We will talk about what we mean by neurodiversity and how we can apply basic universal design principles to ensure that our digital content is inclusive for all.Resources: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/Cognitive & Learning Disabilities Task Force (COGA) https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/coga/Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable/Clear Language Subgroup https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/silver/wiki/Clear_Language_SubgroupWiki: Ten Tips https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/coga/wiki/%E2%80%9Cten_tips%E2%80%9D

This session covers basic remediation of a PDF document for accessibility. Chapters include: 00:00 Introduction 01:06 Setting Up Your Workspace 02:28 The Tag Tree 03:58 The Accessibility Checker 06:40 Title - Failed 07:30 Logical Reading Order - Needs Manual Check 09:08 Figures Alternate Text - Failed 11:10 Headings - Appropriate Nesting Failed 13:01 Tables - Headers Failed 14:36 Untagged PDFs 15:44 The Action Wizard 15:57 The Action Wizard - Make Accessible 18:13 SensusAccess - Tagged PDF Conversion