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- Reimagining 1775: Making the American Revolution Real for Today’s StudentsAn alumna offers students the chance for hands-on engagement with artifacts and lessons that bridge the 250 years since the Battle of Lexington and Concord
- Wildlife Cameras Provide an Unfiltered View of the Natural WorldIn the Master’s in Conservation Medicine program, students learn to use camera traps to study animals on the Grafton campus and contribute to the health of animals nationwide
- How Did Environmentalism Become a Partisan Issue?Sociologist Caleb Scoville wins a prestigious Andrew Carnegie fellowship to study the question, part of a larger effort to understand growing political polarization in the U.S.
Tufts Events
- Apr 1610:00 AMCivilian Response to Active Shooter TrainingBuilding: Dowling Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Milmore Room Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Health/Wellness Event Sponsor: Tufts University Event Sponsor Details: Office of Emergency Management Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu Link: https://emergency.tufts.edu/training/civilian-response-active-shooter-course This training course is designed to provide tools and techniques on how to react to an active shooter/active threat. This training expands upon information found in the Tufts University Emergency Response Guide. This platform is modeled around the Avoid, Deny, Defend response to an active shooter.
- Apr 1612:00 PMFrom Sit-Ins to Strikes: Understanding Power in Community Organizing CampaignsBuilding: Joyce Cummings Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 120, Joyce Cummings Center Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Education,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor Details: Tisch College of Civic Life and the Civic Studies Program Speaker Name: Cameron Connor RSVP Information: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/sit-ins-strikes-understanding-power-community-organizing-campaigns Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/sit-ins-strikes-understanding-power-community-organizing-campaigns Organizing focuses on power: who has it, who doesn’t, and how to build enough of it to shift the power relationship and bring about change. Join Cameron Conner, visiting fellow and professor of the practice at Tisch College, for a workshop on how to understand power through the lens of community organizing and put it to use strategically in campaigns. Lunch will be provided!
- Apr 1612:00 PMTUSM Global Health Seminar Series—Beyond Water Scarcity: Urban Water Inequity and Public Health in Karachi, PakistanBuilding: Tufts Center for Medical Education City: Boston, MA 02111 Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus Location Details: In-person with food in MedEd 114 (145 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA, 02111) and Zoom Open to Public: No Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Global Engagement,Health/Wellness Event Sponsor Details: The TUSM Global Health Faculty Council and the Tufts Center for Global Public Health Speaker Name: Hassaan F. Khan RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zllDn7drQDKt_Vc8YaLj5Q#/registration Event Contact Name: Kim Burke Event Contact Email: kimberly.burke@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zllDn7drQDKt_Vc8YaLj5Q#/registration Across South Asian megacities, rapid urbanization, climatic change, and weak water governance have created acute water stress, especially among marginalized groups. Drawing on two recent studies from Karachi, Pakistan, this talk examines how structural inequalities and administrative fragmentation produce severe disparities in access to water and sanitation. The talk will highlight how legal recognition, social capital, and community mobilization shape residents’ ability to secure basic services. The talk also foregrounds the lived experiences of residents in underserved neighborhoods, revealing how uneven patterns of water and sanitation access have profound implications for public health, shaping exposure to disease, reinforcing health disparities, and undermining the urban poor’s ability to achieve basic well-being. Hassaan F. Khan is an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. His teaching and research focus on issues of environmental justice and equity, combining rigorous systems analysis with mixed methods approaches, to study water management in the Global South. He is the founding director of an interdisciplinary research group (KWP) that is developing technological and policy-based solutions to urban water challenges in South Asian cities. The goal of Khan's research on urban water systems is to inform the discourse on water beyond a simplistic and overly infrastructure-focused centralized approach that overlooks the needs of and impact on marginalized communities.