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| July 2009 | First Annual MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship Awarded...Students learn "Experimenting with Philanthropy"...Citizen Biologist Ross Feldberg Retires...Civic Engagement Summer Reading...July Updates from CIRCLE...ACS Somerville Students Work With Community Organizations...ACS International Supports 18 Students to Build Sustainable Infrastructure in Guatemala...Citizen Alumna Denise Durham Williams Builds Pathways Out of Poverty...The Obama Administration’s Civic Agenda After Six Months |
| June 2009 | Graduating Students Participate in Senior Service Day...Professor David Gute Links Engineering and Public Service...Tufts-Schweitzer Fellows Implement Health Service Projects...Jumpstart Corp Member Kathryn Mattern Receives Prestigious National Award...Active Citizenship Summer Supports 65 Students Doing Service Projects...Groundbreaking Loan Repayment Program Gifts First Awards...Tufts Presents Tufts Honorary Degrees for Public Service...Online Engaged Scholarship Toolkit launched |
| May 2009 | President Bacow Recognizes Students for Outstanding Citizenship...Citizens Activists Take a Stand For Darfur...Economics Professor Gilbert Metcalf Fights for Sustainability...Honos Civicus Society Celebrates Inaugural Members...Tufts Presidential Symposium Addresses "Collaborations During Challenging Times"...CPS Scholar Christina LaSala Works to Improve Children's Lives...Citizen Alumna Bess Dopkeen Recognized with Prestigious Truman National Security Fellowship...Tisch College Board Chair Deb Jospin Receives Light on the Hill Award...Edward R. Murrow Forum Digs Deeply at Media and Politics...Student Service Organization Celebrates 50th Anniversary...May Updates from CIRCLE |
| April 2009 | Tisch College Hosts National Conference on Arts and Activism...Professor Kathleen Merrigan Tapped as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture...Students' "Tufts Roundtable" Launches Online Edition...Tufts Student Serves as Federal Student Service Ambassador...Tisch College Board Chair Deb Jospin Leads Workshop for Local Non-Profits...CPS Scholars Kate Berson and Laura Zachary...Citizen Alumni Community Mentors Tufts Students...Tisch Civic Engagement Research Prize Given to Professor Elinor Ostrom...4th Annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism |
| March 2009 | Professor Chris Rogers Strengthens Engineering Education and Develops Citizen Engineers...Honos Civicus Society to Recognize Graduating Seniors for Outstanding Civic Engagement...Tufts University Named to President's Honor Roll for Community Service with Distinction...Civic Engagement Growing Rapidly at Research Universities...Updates from CIRCLE...CPS Scholar Dean Ladin Develops Juvenile Diversion Program for Middlesex DA's Office...Tufts Active Citizens of New York Grows to over 300 Alumni...Lincoln Filene Center Launches Community Outreach Portal...The Drama of the Commons: What Makes Cooperation Work...Convergence: The Intersection of Arts and Activism...Upcoming Events |
| February 2009 | Professor Peter Walker Generates Knowledge for Social Change...Tisch College Awarded by the City of Somerville For Excellence in Community Service...First University-wide College Access Symposium Held...Citizen Dentist Help Fellow Students Connect with Patients through the Civic Engagement Fund...Tisch College Senior Fellow, Ambassador John Shattuck, to lead Central European University...CPS Scholar Adam Evans Engages Students Through Writing...Citizen Alumni Helps Local Nonprofit Fulfill Its Mission...Tufts Awards Grants to Local Organizations...Updates from CIRCLE...Jumpstart Honored for its Strong History of Community Partnership...Upcoming Events |
| January 2009 | New Year Wishes from Dean Hollister...Professor David Walt Promotes Active Citizenship via Science Education and Research...CIRCLE Study: No Child Left Behind Has Not Narrowed Curricula...Leonard Carmichael Society Supports Medford Family Network...Homework Club Is Path to Civic Engagement for CPS Scholar Kara Takasaki...Tisch College Board Members Aid Presidential Transition...Social Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition...Deadline to Apply for ACS Fellows Is Jan. 16...Student Films Now Available Online |
| December 2008 | Medical School Increases Active Citizenship...CIRCLE and Tufts Student Leaders Look to Keep Young People Engaged...Professor John Hammock: Follow Your Passion and Get Paid for It...Celebrating Community-Based Research Grants...Welcoming Future CPS Scholars...CPS Scholar Denisha McKenzie Blends Discipline with Respect...Citizen Doctor Rishi Manchanda Helps Patients Find Their Civic Voice...Making music at Tufts Medical Center...Tisch ACS Summer Fellow Corinna Jacobs Exhibits at Tufts Gallery...Films for Social Change to Screen Dec. 9...Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur Grant Available... |
| November 2008 | Students Race to Finish Line in Today’s Election...CIRCLE to Immediately Calculate Youth Voter Turnout...Tufts-Sponsored Voting Challenge Culminates Today...New Student Political Opinion Journal - Tufts Roundtable...Tufts Faculty and Community Partners Awarded $2.4 Million for Community-Based Research...Dean Hollister speaks at Conference of Middle East Universities...CPS Scholar Nathan Tanaka: Making a Difference by Making Music...Fletcher Student Gets Funding to Support Peace Efforts...MPS Students Learn from Academy Award-winning filmmaker...Applications Being Accepted for Tisch Civic Engagement Fund...Documenting Genocide, Survival and Hope...Helping High Schoolers Learn about College... |
| October 2008 | CIRCLE Grant will use Social Networking to Increase Participation...America's Civic Health Index...President Bacow Issues Campus Votes Challenge...Tufts Students Make Their Voices Heard...Tufts Students Active in Fall Elections..."Send Us More Tufts Students"...Media and Public Service Program Lands Two Grants...Tufts-Schweitzer Fellows Volunteer for Week of Service...Tisch College Fall Speakers Program...Get ready to HONK!...Join us in welcoming CIRCLE to Boston... |
| September 2008 | Civic Engagement Part of Living at Tufts...$2.5 Million NIH Grant for Community-Based Research...NSF Supports Professor Chris Swan to Study the Role of Service Learning in Improving Engineering Education...Professor Saul Tzipori Applies Veterinary Skills to Improve Human Public Health...All New Undergraduates Read Public-Issues Book...Tisch Fellows Return from Summer Internships - from Somerville to Seattle and Abroad...They Spent Their Summer Volunteering, Interning, Teaching, and Learning...Tufts Alumni Increase College Access...Tufts Alums Tell the Stories of Child Refugees...Tufts Trustee Gloria White-Hammond Continues Fighting for Human Rights...New Tisch College Staff... |
| July 2008 | CIRCLE Moves to Tisch College...Undergrads Design Study Service Trip to Guatemala...Alumni Service Day 2008...Jumpstart Draws Record Number of Students this Summer... Tisch College Co-Sponsors Civic Engagement Reading...Ready. Set. Read....Strong Liberalism Makes the Case for Active Citizenship... Art Installation Celebrates Role of Public Libraries... |
| June 2008 | Professor George Norman Guides New Leadership Minor...Loan Repayment Assistance Now Available...Tisch College Board to Fund New Internships...College Advising Corps Launches in Somerville...Civil Society Book Series Goes International...Working with Somerville to Achieve Environmental Sustainability...Graduating Tisch Scholars Start Public Service Careers...Active Citizenship Summers Supports Students Across the U.S., Globe...Senior Service Day Focuses on "Going Green"...Vital Work of Community Partners Celebrated...Social Change Film Festival Debuts... |
| May 2008 | President Bacow Honors 13 Students for Outstanding Citizenship...Tufts Co-Hosts Panel on Urban Issues with U.S. Conference of Mayors...Professor Peter Uvin Continues to Transform International Development...Tufts' Murrow Forum Focuses on Changing World of Journalism...Award-Winning Journalist Talks about Waterboarding...Tisch College Board of Advocates Welcomes New Members...Two Tufts Students Named Truman Scholars...Six Named Tufts-Schweitzer Fellows...Tufts Senior Heading to D.C. as a Dutko Fellow...First David Burke Fellows Land Journalism Internships...Interest in Social Justice Leads James Wiley to Canal Alliance... |
| April 2008 | Presidential Symposium Advances Community Partnerships...Prof. Richard Lerner: Researching How Children Contribute to Their Communities...Tisch Policy Forum to Host U.S. Mayors...Using Virtual Reality to Foster Civic Engagement...Student Films Are Film Festival Finalists ...Education Policy Workshop to be held April 13...Edward R. Murrow Forum Set for April 14...National Student and University Leaders Briefed on Tisch College Programs...SArt and Active Citizenship...Web-based Tool kit Aids Community Partnerships... |
| March 2008 | Dean Harris Berman - Expanding Public Health Programs...Civic Engagement Emphasis Increasing at Major Research Universities...Funds Donated by Tufts Employees Support Host Communities...Films for Social Change Now Online...Speakers Challenge Color Blindness in Public School Assignment Policies...Interactive Sonic Art Project Will Build Community ...Prof. Deborah Schildkraut to Address CERG Meeting March 7th ...Brokaw to Moderate Third Annual Edward R. Murrow Forum ...Summer Internship Deadlines Approaching; New David Burke Internship...Post Graduation Active Citizenship Opportunities... |
| February 2008 | CIRCLE Research Center Joining Tisch College...Student Volunteers Say New Orleans Could Define Their Generation...Prof. Christina Economos: Engaging the Community in Research...Alumnus Jeremy Liu: Building Community through Education, Advocacy and Action...25 Join Education for Active Citizenship Course...Student's Jumpstart Experience Leads to Career Choice...Rachel Hoff named Young Republican Woman of the Year...Prof. Deborah Schildkraut to Present her Research on Immigrant Identity...Deadline Approaching for Tisch Active Citizen Summer Fellows Program...Dutko Fellowship Available to Graduating Senior...Nominations Sought for Tufts Presidential Awards...Students Invited to Apply for Schmolze Award... |
| January 2008 | Carol Goldberg’s Family Gives $1,000,000 to Tisch College...Social Policy Forum to Focus on Racial Integration in U.S. Public Schools...Institute of Political Citizenship Sponsoring Spring Internships...Community Groups and Tufts Try Speed Dating – and Like It...Dean’s Page Launched on Tisch College Website...Acting Civically Published by Tufts University Press ...Tufts Alumni Outline Challenges to Public Broadcasting ...Tufts Student Study to Launch Spring CERG Meetings...Propose Your Peace Project...Ideas Wanted for New Social Ventures ...For more events, check our website regularly!... |
| December 2007 | Prof. Alice Lichtenstein Applies Nutrition Research to Public Policy ...Hollister, Other National Leaders Look to Encourage Federal Careers...The Message from Emerging Black Leaders: Get Engaged...Alumni Public Service Mentors Confer at National Conference...Tisch Citizenship Engagement Fund Supports Student Projects...Education for Active Citizenship Course Fully Subscribed ...Media Panel to Discuss Future of PBS...Films for Social Change...For more events, check our website regularly!... |
| November 2007 | First Civic Engagement Research Prize Presented to Robert Wuthnow...Passing the Baton...Tufts Alumnus Uses Hoops to Mentor Boys in New York....Innovative Loan Forgiveness Plan Draws Media Attention...Prof. Peter Walker: Effective global citizenship uses skills and discipline to harness ideals...Chinatown Intercollegiate Orientation Features ’67 Alumna Stephanie Fan ...NY Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Launches New Leadership Forum...Tisch College Programs Presented at National Conferences...Kenneth Reardon to Address CERG Meeting on Community Revitalization Lessons ...Somerville: Immigrant City on Display...Welcome to New Staff; New Roles... |
| October 2007 | Prof. Jeff Berry: Student Commitment to Civic Engagement Is "Running Rampant" ...Fall Seminars Bring Public Leaders to Tufts...Seminar Lesson: Speak Up....Students Use the Arts to Address Social Justice Issues ...Thinking Outside the Bottle...Tufts–Law Library of Congress Series to Highlight Civil Rights...Prof. Robert Wuthnow to Receive First Tufts Civic Engagement Research Prize - Oct. 15...Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., to Launch First Annual Tufts Leadership Forum - Oct. 16 ...Thomas Ehrlich, co-author of "Educating for Democracy", to speak October 24, 3:00p.m., at Sophia Gordon Hall ...CERG Meeting to Focus on Civic Engagement by Latinos - Oct. 26...Tisch College Co-hosts D.C. Policy Forum on National Service...Talloires Network Meeting Held in Buenos Aires... |
| September 2007 | Tisch Resident Leaders Promote Civic Engagement in Dorms...Amb. John Shattuck to Teach American Foreign Policy...Tufts Community Kitchen Project Trains Homeless and Unemployed....Prof. Catherine Hayes Leads Dental School Community Service...Tisch Scholar Starts Fulbright Scholarship ...Prof. Rich Lerner to Address First Civic Engagement Research Group Forum...Community Partnership Directories Available...Students Wanted to Help Raise a Ruckus...Tisch College Staff Update...In Memoriam: Prof. Gerald Gill... |
| August 2007 | Fighting Cancer with Video Games...Tisch Active Citizen Summer Fellows Partner with Somerville..and Around the Globe...Alumni Mentor Tufts Students Across the U.S....TQuantifying the Impacts of Healthier Workers...Using the Media to Promote Social Change...All Souls: A Family story from Southie... |
| June 2007 | Tisch College to Engage More Students and Strengthen Research...Tufts Trio Joins Roadtrip Nation...When a Tree Falls in the Forest, It Could Affect Us...New Book By Peter Levine...Tufts Undergrads Honored for Their Theses on Civic Engagement...Students Earn Fellowships, Honors Tied to Public Service... |
| May 2007 | Citizenship Means Being Actively Involved… Tufts Survey Challenges Myths About Youth Civic Engagement… Learning about Active Citizenship in an Urban Community… Tufts Students Receive Presidential Awards… Dan Rather Keynotes Murrow Forum… CERG to Focus on Popular Culture and Civic Engagement… MTisch ACS Fellows Ready to Roll Up Their Sleeves… Alumni Service Project Tradition Continues… Molly Mead, Who Helped Establish Tisch College, Departs for Amherst College… Students Receive Rob Hollister Community Service and Citizenship Award… |
| April 2007 | Jamshed Bharucha on Civic Engagement Research … Tufts Alumna Battles Child Labor in South Asia… Presidential Symposium Reinforces Community Ties… Dean Hollister Speaks at Israeli and Palestinian Academies … Boston Tufts Alliance Collects Bikes for Ghana… Second Murrow Forum set for April 9… Media panel explores First Amendment Rights and the Role of Campus Press… Tufts/MACC Receives Grant to Increase College Access in Massachusetts…Media & Public Service Program: Student Film to Screen at Ivy Film Festival… |
| March 2007 | Fellowship supports Maryanne Wolf to apply her research… Ghana study tour follows gold to explore development… Peter Levine advocates research priorities… Trustee Tom Alperin on civic engagement… Alumni mentoring program to expand this summer… Residence hall to focus on active citizenship… Tufts chosen as site of new College Access Fellow Program… CERG March meeting to focus on migrant issues…Second Murrow Forum set for April 9 … |
| February 2007 | Jonathan Kozol Launches Inaugural Social Policy Forum… Tufts researchers studying microfinance in Ghana … Film highlights how media can influence social change … Capital Campaign Launched in New York Metro Area … Pat Hannan makes the economics-social services connection … Elevating the role of NGOs in building civil society … Does transitional justice help to repair the world? … COT students return to New Orleans… Tisch program highlighted at New Orleans conference… Tufts and Law Library of Congress team up on active citizenship… |
| January 2007 | National Civic Engagement Leader Joins Tisch College as Senior Fellow… Race and Active Citizenship… Remembering and Honoring the Boston Civil Rights Movement… From Judges to Convicts, Students Learn Firsthand about the Judicial System… Tisch College Board Strengthens Commitment to Research… Tufts Forum Explores the Human Dimension of Domestic Policy… Jonathan Kozol to Inaugurate Social Policy Forum at Tufts on February 1… The War on Terrorism: Where Do We Stand?… Civic Identity Among American Muslim Women to Launch Spring CERG Program… Connecticut Alumni to Discuss Immigration… Student Films Use Media for Social Change… |
| December 2006 | Rev. Marshall Elijah Hatch Named 2006 Howland Award Winner… Tufts Health Sciences Launch Tufts-Schweitzer Fellowship Program… Why Whites in America Become Activists for Racial Justice… Undergrads Engage in Interfaith Dialogues… Peace Proposals Wanted… Active Citizenship Is Alive and Well… Three from Tisch College Family Advising Incoming Patrick Administration… Record Number Admitted to Education for Active Citizenship Course… Resource Guide Helps Students Engage with Local Communities Abroad… Save Dec. 12 for Boxing, Stuttering, Drinking, and Dating… Tufts Active Citizens of New York Host Education Dinner… |
| November 2006 | Tufts Professor Blends Teaching of Latin America, U.S. Latino America, and Social Change… With the Election Over, It’s Time to Head for the Hill… Jumpstart at Tufts Is Growing… Understanding College Student Voting Patterns… Freshmen Explore Diversity Issues in Class and Out… Tisch Scholars Returned to Campus for First Reunion … Debate on Cameras in the Courtroom Heads to Big Apple … |
| October 2006 | Tisch Faculty Fellow John McDonald: Confronting with Music… Case Foundation Names Tufts as a Top Innovative Institution… Tufts Alumni Rolled Up their Sleeves, Cleaned Up California Coast… Poverty Simulation Helps Develop Insight into Others… Children’s Mental Health Issue Launches CERG Program… New Times Demand New Scholarship… Roundtable Convened on the Role of Community-Based Organizations… Tufts Alumnus Recognized as Purpose Prize Fellow… |
| September 2006 | Faculty Fellow Marina Bers Receives Presidential Award… Tisch Active Citizenship Summer Fellows Rolled Up their Sleeves at Home and Abroad… One Man’s Quest to Cure the World Helps Welcome New Students to Tufts… Report Issued on Talloires Conference on Civic Roles and Social Responsibilities of Higher Education … Tisch College Outcomes Study Moves Ahead… NYC workshop on Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life on Sept. 21 … Alumni Kept Active During the Summer and Plan More for the Fall … |
| June 2006 | Tisch Active Citizenship Summer Fellows Fan Out Around the World… "Tufts Helped Me Become an Active Citizen"… Brian O'Connell Retires from Teaching But Will Remain Active on Tisch Board… Institute Aims to Extend Active Citizenship in English Classes… NY Tufts Alumni Collect Bicycles for Ghana… Alumni Clean Up on Service Day, Provide Role Models… Improving Treatment of Childhood Trauma… Tisch Website Redesigned… |
| May 2006 | Faculty Fellows Named for 2006-2008… 23 First Years Constitute Largest Class of Student Scholars… Fighting Poverty Starts with Learning… Alumni Help Students Land Summer Internships and, for Some, a Job… Engineers Without Borders Heads South… Mystic Watershed Forum Focuses on Research Activities… Alumni Service Day Fast Approaching… Community Language Bank Leaders Win $50,000 Frigon Competition and Montle Prize… Student Film Takes First Place… Emmanuel's Gift: Donate a Bicycle in NYC on June 4th… Medical and Art Students Explore Intersection of Visual Art and Healthcare… Social Issues Highlighted by Student Films |
| April 2006 | What Would Murrow See Now?… Twelve Tufts Students Receive Presidential Award for Citizenship and Public Service… Fund Established to Honor Jim Schmolze… Thinking About the Meaning of Genocide… UC Student Scholar Wins Truman Scholarship… Tufts Alumni = Active Citizens… Immigration Issues to Highlight May 5 Research Group Meeting… Jumpstart News… Tufts and Local Communities Explore Ways to Enhance Research |
| March 2006 | Reflecting on Katrina Cleanup… Presidential Symposium Hosts Ongoing Conversation… Tufts Student Produces International Peace Conference… Tisch College's Molly Mead Publishes Effective Philanthropy… Ted Koppel to Moderate News Symposium… Save March 31 for First Symposium on Community Research… Alumni Service Day 2006… New Profit, New Hope… Research Group Focuses on Economic Inequalities as Barriers to Democracy |
