A Forum Organized by Tisch College
Friday, November 6, 12:30-2:30 pm
Crane Room, Paige Hall, Tufts University
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Community Organizing: Past, Present, and Future
Multimedia
Building Blocks
Engineering and the Construction Process is a class in which a bustling construction site on Tufts University's Medford/Somerville campus doubles as an interactive classroom.
Multimedia
Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change
Through an innovative course at the Experimental College, Tufts students are learning how to use art as a vehicle of social change. Mindy Nierenberg, Student Program Manager at Tisch College, teaches the class, and talks here about the power of visual art.
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Faculty Profile
Maryanne Wolf
Professor, child development
WHY TUFTS: “I tremendously value a place where I can be real friends with everyone from the maintenance person to the president; this is a place
where people care about each other. It’s also a place with the scholar-teacher at its core and that’s the core of who I am too.”
CURRENT RESEARCH: Incorporating cognitive and neural sciences, linguistics and child development theory to understand the variations in the “reading brain;”application of those understandings to the classroom and to defining the range of dyslexia and appropriate interventions.
AFTER-HOURS: “Every night at 11 or 11:30 (sometimes at 4 a.m.) I return to my roots as an English lit.major and avidly read poetry and fiction. I also swim, ski (badly), play the piano, and attend operas when I can.
