Tufts University facts for kids
Latin: [Universitas Tuftensis] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | |
Former names
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Tufts College (1852–1954) |
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Motto | Pax et Lux (Latin) |
Motto in English
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Peace and Light |
Type | Private |
Established | 1852 |
Endowment | $1.87 billion (2019) |
Chairman | Peter R. Dolan |
President | Anthony P. Monaco |
Provost | Nadine Aubry |
Academic staff
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1,706 (fall 2017; full-time) |
Students | 11,489 (fall 2017) |
Undergraduates | 5,541 (fall 2017) |
Postgraduates | 5,908 (fall 2017) |
Location |
Medford and Somerville
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United States
42°24′22″N 71°07′12″W / 42.406°N 71.120°W |
Campus | Urban, total 150 acres (0.61 km2) |
Student newspaper | The Tufts Daily |
Colors | Tufts Blue and brown |
Athletics | NCAA Division III – NESCAC |
Nickname | Jumbos |
Affiliations | URA AICUM NAICU UPNE |
Mascot | Jumbo the Elephant |
Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 by Christian universalists.
It was a small New England liberal arts college until its transformation into a larger research university in the 1970s. It is known for its internationalism and study abroad programs.
Images for kids
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The Tufts cannon, repainted almost nightly during the academic year, is here painted in response to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan
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Eugene Fama, Nobel Prize-winning economist (B.A. 1960)
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Roderick MacKinnon, Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient (M.D. 1982)
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Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize (MA, 1981)
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Victor McKusick, geneticist, known as the father of medical genetics (COL, 1943)
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Vannevar Bush, inventor and science administrator, founder of Raytheon (BS, 1913; MS, 1913)
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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase (BA, 1978)
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Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay (BS, 1988)
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Susan Decker, Former president of Yahoo! Inc. (B.S. 1984)
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., Publisher of The New York Times (BA, 1974)
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Norbert Wiener, child prodigy and youngest Tufts graduate (BA, 1909)
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Shashi Tharoor, former Under-Secretary General at the United Nations (MA, 1976; Ph.D, 1978)
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Scott Brown, Diplomat and United States Senator for Massachusetts (B.A. 1981)
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (BS, 1948; MA, 1949; PhD, 1961)
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Tracy Chapman, Grammy Award-winning artist (BA, 1986)
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Michelle Kwan, American figure skater and two time Olympic medalist (MA, 2011)
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Meredith Vieira, American journalist, talk show and game show host (BA, 1975)
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Gordon Wood, historian, Pulitzer Prize winning author (BA, 1955)
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Peter Gallagher, American actor, musician, and writer (BA,1977)
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William Hurt, Academy Award-winning actor (B.A. 1972)
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Hank Azaria, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and producer (BA, 1985)
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Jessica Biel, Actress (Did not graduate)
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Rainn Wilson, Actor (Did not graduate)
See also
In Spanish: Universidad Tufts para niños