Tufts University, Author at YubaNet

“African and African American naming and genealogical practices were a powerful and often-veiled form of resistance and identity throughout the history of slavery—and, more broadly, African American history,” Kendra Field says. The 10 Million Names project will help “to recover and restore many of these names to their families, to the history of the African diaspora, and to American history.”

Recovering Family History for Millions of African Americans

by Tufts University August 4, 2023August 4, 2023

August 4, 2023 – Every year, Kendra Taira Field teaches a class called Family Histories in American Culture. For their final paper, students research and write about their ancestors—stories that have over the years included those of enslaved family members and slave-holding kin. For Field, an associate professor of history and director of the Center for […]

The findings show the ongoing, widespread exposure of birds of prey (such as red-tailed hawks, pictured) in the northeastern United States to anticoagulant rodenticides, underscoring the need for reevaluation of mitigation measures intended to decrease this risk.

Sci/Tech

New Study is First to Find Exposure to Neurotoxic Rodenticide Bromethalin in Birds of Prey

by Tufts University July 11, 2023July 11, 2023

In 2020, Tufts Wildlife Clinic Director Maureen Murray, V03, published a study that showed 100% of red-tailed hawks tested at the clinic were positive for exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs). Such exposure occurs when these chemicals are used to kill mice or rats, which eat the poison, and the birds eat the poisoned prey. Now, Murray is expanding that research with […]

CIRCLE Associate Director Abby Kiesa presents the Growing Voters report, which details ways that institutions and groups can better support young voters and foster democratic participation.

Major Report: How to Drastically Increase Youth Voter Participation and Reduce Inequities in Turnout

by Tufts University June 13, 2022June 13, 2022

Institutions and communities have not been doing their part to prepare the nation’s young people to participate in democracy, according to a new report from the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. The report recommends that groups committed to voter […]

Few pathways to an acceptable climate future without immediate action

by Tufts University March 11, 2019

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. March 11, 2019 – A new comprehensive study of climate change has painted over 5 million pictures of humanity’s potential future, and few foretell an Earth that has not severely warmed. But with immediate action and some luck, there are pathways to a tolerable climate future, according to a research team led by […]

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Consumer food choices can help reduce greenhouse emissions contributing to climate change

by Tufts University June 8, 2018

HARTFORD, Conn. and BOSTON, June 7, 2018—Changes in diet have been proposed as a way to reduce carbon emissions from the food system. But there has been little research on the affordability and feasibility of low-carbon food choices in the U.S. and how these choices could affect diet and climate change. A new study that […]

Civic Math: Mathematicians Wield Geometry, Train Experts in Effort to Fight Gerrymandering, Promote Voting Rights

by Tufts University August 7, 2017August 7, 2017

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, MA, Aug. 7, 2017 – National experts in mathematics, law, politics, and voting rights are gathering at Tufts University this week to discuss nonpartisan solutions to gerrymandering and promote fair electoral districting practices across the country. The conference is the inaugural workshop of the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG), a nonpartisan organization of […]

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