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(1:14:11) 2017 Tufts University Baccalaureate Service, held in Medford, MA on May 20, 2017. Features President Anthony P. Monaco's Baccalaureate Address, and the Wendell Phillips Address, by Isabella Kahhale, Class of 2017l.

(1:05) Rachael Bonoan, a Ph.D. candidate at Tufts studying honey bee nutrition, checks on her hives on the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine campus in North Grafton, Mass.

(15:04) Award-winning television writer, creator, director, showrunner, executive producer, and feature film screenwriter Kenya Barris delivers the commencement address to the Tufts University Class of 2017 on Sunday, May 21, 2017.

(1:09) 360 degree views of the all-university commencement ceremony at the Tufts University Medford/Somerville campus. (May 21, 2017)

(2:58) A special message to international students from President Monaco, Provost Harris, Tufts faculty and students, and the mayors of Boston, Somerville, and Medford.

(1:20) Michael Levin, Ph.D., Vannevar Bush professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, discusses how recent research on tadpoles with ectopic eyes reveals the brain’s remarkable plasticity.

(4:00) Rebeca, a Tufts 1+4 student volunteering in Spain, takes over the Tufts University Snapchat to show her life abroad.

(1:35) Tufts Professor Michael Levin is using artificial intelligence to generate cancer-like properties in tadpoles, which could someday be used to cure disease, control cell behavior, or regenerate tissue.

(2:18) Sophia, a Tufts 1+4 student working in Brazil, takes over the Tufts University Snapchat to show her life in Florianópolis.

(0:39) Tufts alumna Lynn Munsinger has illustrated nearly 100 children's books. Take a look at her recent work, "Dinosaurs in Disguise," which tells the story of a boy who believes the dinosaurs did not become extinct millions of years ago, but instead went into hiding.

(5:09) For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to generate a never-before-seen cancer phenotype. The findings provide new insight into the biophysics of cancer and raise broad implications for biomedicine.

(1:39) Study by Tufts University, in collaboration with MIT scientists, reveals the molecular composition of firefly "nuptial gifts", offering the first peek into the content of these special packages and shedding new light on post-mating sexual selection. The findings were published Dec. 22, 2016, in Scientific Reports.

(1:34:53) Julian Agyeman, Ph.D.,FRSA,FRGS, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, co-authored "Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities" with Duncan McLaren. It was named one of Nature’s Top 20 for 2015. Herein they argue that the intersection of cities’ highly networked physical space with new digital technologies and new mediated forms of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart technology to justice, solidarity, and sustainability. McLaren and Agyeman propose a new “sharing paradigm,” which goes beyond the faddish “sharing economy”—seen in such ventures as Uber and TaskRabbit—to envision models of sharing that are not always commercial but also communal, encouraging trust and collaboration. They show how sharing could shift values and norms, enable civic engagement and political activism, and rebuild a shared urban commons. Their case for sharing and solidarity offers a powerful alternative for urban futures to conventional “race-to-the-bottom” narratives of competition, enclosure, and division.

(2:59) When it comes to remembering things under stress, it's not a matter of how much or how long you study, it's a matter of how you study.In a paper published in Science, a research team led by Ayanna Thomas, PhD, associate professor of psychology, and graduate student Amy Smith describe their new findings: learning by taking practice tests, a strategy known as retrieval practice, can protect memory against the negative effects of stress.To learn more, visit: now.tufts.edu/news-releases/practice-testing-protects-memory-against-stress ase.tufts.edu/psychology/caml/Special thanks to: Victoria Floerke Dennis Kim Maria Ramirez Melissa Rice Federico Silva

(2:53) Internationally recognized performer and music educator Christiane Lane plays John Knowles Paine’s 1861 composition ‘Concert Variations on the “Star-Spangled Banner” for Organ.’ The Tufts University Goddard Chapel pipe organ was built in 1883 by Hook & Hastings. http://now.tufts.edu/multimedia http://chaplaincy.tufts.edu/

(1:45) Members of HYPE!---Tufts University's mime group---"talk" about what it means to them to perform. http://now.tufts.edu/multimedia https://www.facebook.com/hypemimez/

(2:24) Before beginning their undergraduate studies on campus, students in the Tufts 1 + 4 program spend nine months doing service work in Brazil, Nicaragua or Spain. Come join us in Madrid as they share their adventures, challenges and moments of self-discovery. Tufts works with United Planet and AFAIJ to offer the Tufts 1+4 program in Spain. http://now.tufts.edu/multimedia http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/tufts1plus4/

(5:58) Tufts combines scientific expertise with an understanding of social conditions to combat a waterborne scourge in Ghana. Schistosomiasis case study: http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-2976-2 Water infrastructure case study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716305733

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(1:56) See highlights from the Commencement address given by actor and Tufts alumnus Hank Azaria.