Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 News
Dorothy Meaney, Director of Tisch Library, and Jennifer Ferguson, Head of User Experience & Student Success, supported national research on how the flow of information in the modern world impacts college student’s attitudes towards climate change. Among the research findings, students… Read More
Monday, August 26th, 2024 News
Starting this fall, the Office of Sustainability along with the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning department will open a new fellowship. The Fellowship focuses on building the capacity of frontline communities, those who experience… Read More
Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 Curricular Engagement Student Programming Sustainable CORE Fellows
The Office of Sustainability updated its mission in 2023 to more clearly connect its work with the purpose of the university. The renewed focus is to harness Tufts’ potential to be a model of just sustainability by linking our… Read More
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 News Student Programming Sustainable CORE Fellows
Four students have been named as recipients of Tufts’ annual awards, celebrating their academic abilities and their work promoting sustainability on campus. The students are all members of the Sustainable CORE Fellows program, who work… Read More
Thursday, April 18th, 2024 Curricular Engagement News Student Programming
Over 150 students at Tufts have conducted research projects this academic year to help Tufts make progress on its sustainability goals. With a focus on helping direct Tufts’ decarbonization strategy, these undergraduate and graduate students… Read More
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024 Curricular Engagement News
Aoife Schmitt (A24) is part of an undergraduate capstone class examining the feasibility of installing ground-source heat pumps on Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus. Aoife and her project team are looking at the current design of upper… Read More
Tuesday, March 12th, 2024 News
Five project proposals have received funding through the Green Fund’s spring 2024 application round. The approved projects include the e-PTD (electronically powered transportation device) Charging and Storage project, Refil Station: a 3D filament creation project,… Read More
Thursday, February 15th, 2024 Curricular Engagement News
Anna, Griffin, and Bri donned their snow boots to trudge through the freshly fallen snow covering the forest floor at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Allison Robbins, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of… Read More
Monday, February 5th, 2024 Events News
On February 1st, Chief Sustainability Officer Dano Weisbord (AG01) took the lead in a thought-provoking Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture, focusing on Tufts’ proactive involvement in the ongoing energy transition away from fossil fuels. A… Read More
Thursday, November 30th, 2023 Events News
An initiative from the Sustainable CORE Fellows has been named a finalist for the 2023 Student Sustainability Leadership Award given by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). The CORE fellows… Read More