Please look through the upcoming events on the calendar below and contact us at activecitizen@tufts.edu with any questions.
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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.
WHY TUFTS: “Tufts has a great liberal arts tradition and is making a difference in the world for individuals, communities and civil society more generally.
Having the opportunity to work at an institution that has this traditional excellence and yet this commitment, this pillar, to application to real world service is just an enormous opportunity, a great gift.”
CURRENT RESEARCH: Groundbreaking work on the nature of positive development among adolescents. Several longitudinal studies are underway exploring how adolescents develop in positive ways and how this development is juxtaposed with risk behaviors (alcohol, drug use, unsafe sex, delinquency, etc.) often seen during this period.
LATEST BOOK: Liberty: Thriving and Civic Engagement Among America’s Youth
AFTER-HOURS: “I like to spend time with my kids and my wife, who is a professor at Boston College. I also jog everyday and do crossword puzzles.”
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Citizen Coach and Citizen Doctor Team Up
Two citizen alumni and former Tufts lacrosse players – Dr. Sarah Richardson (A'88, D'93), a dentist, and Jessica MacLellan (A'98), a lacrosse coach – joined forces to provide a high school lacrosse team with free customized mouth guards.