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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.

Hear from members of the Financial Aid Office on the ins and outs of financial aid, how Tufts calculates financial aid, and what that means for you.

Led by James Intriligator, Tufts Professor of the Practice in Mechanical Engineering. “Human Factors Engineering” and “Engineering Psychology” are two interdisciplinary majors offered at Tufts. In fact, Tufts is home to the country’s oldest (and some say most-distinguished!) Human Factors programs. In this short course you will learn what “human factors” is all about. You will do this by first learning a tiny bit of history, then learning a bit of method, and THEN by doing a whole lot of design, and human-factors engineering. Come see how Human Factors Engineering and Engineering Psychology are creating, changing, and optimizing the world.

This program is designed to answer all of your questions about what goes into a great SMFA portfolio. The portfolio you submit with your application is our introduction to you as an artist and should be as personal as your personal essay. Join us to hear from a current student about making sense of all the portfolio advice out there and from a member of the admissions team that reviews studio art portfolios on how to make your portfolio speak in your own voice. We’ll show some examples and take your questions.

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!

In this presentation, we'll take a deep dive into the interdisciplinary curriculum and all-access philosophy at SMFA. Through stories and images of student and alumni work, our specialized studio spaces and campus resources, and our neighborhood in Boston, you'll learn about how SMFA prepares students to forge their path in the art world. You’ll be invited to ask questions and to join the conversation about how students take advantage of studio access and university resources.

Taught by Chantal Zakari, Professor of the Practice, Graphic Arts, Print, Paper at SMFA at Tufts.In this session, SMFA at Tufts Graphic Arts faculty present on the development of the graphic arts from pre-industrial revolution through modernism. This includes a discussion on tools and technology, along with capitalism, and the relationship the graphic arts maintain between the fine arts and the commercial arts.

Led by Carol Denning, Assistant Director, Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts.This session will be focused on the Derby Entrepreneurship Center, the Entrepreneurship Minors, other minors offered by Tufts Gordon Institute and how we support students in their entrepreneurial journey.

Taught by David Proctor, Distinguished Senior Lecturer of History at TuftsHow important is the individual in history? Can one individual really change the world and alter the lives and futures of thousands or even millions? Who tells the story and is how the story is told important to determining how that person is remembered? Do the facts shape the history or do historians shape the facts? Whose voices are listened to and whose are silenced? We will explore these questions and many others as we try to define what history is and the power that the historian's pen can wield.

Taught by Joshua Kritzer, Professor of Chemistry at Tufts.Have you ever wondered where new drugs come from, or what’s involved in a clinical trial? In this class we will explore how drugs are discovered, including exciting breakthroughs that are changing drug development.

Led by Jessye Crowe-Rothstein, Senior Program Manager at Tisch College.Learn more about the incredible opportunity to spend your first semester in Peru or Thailand with Tufts Civic Semester! Hear from program staff and alumni and discover our program combining community engaged learning, cultural immersion and bonding with a small group of Tufts peers.