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Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. [ 8 ]
Tufts College, c. 1854. In the 1840s, the Universalist church wanted to open a college in New England due to the majority of members being barred from expensive colleges. In the spring of 1847, Rev. Thomas J. Sawyer of New York opened a correspondence with Rev. Hosea Ballou of Medford and Rev. Thomas Whittemore of Cambridgeport who was also the editor of Trumpet and Universalist Magazine.
The Tufts University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tufts University, a private research university in Massachusetts. It was established in 1893 and is located on the university's health sciences campus in downtown Boston .
Tufts class Life Tenure Notes 1 Hosea Ballou II – 1796–1861: 1853–1860: Tufts College is established in Medford, MA (1852) on Walnut Hill. – Oliver Dean [2] – 1783–1871: 1860–1862 (acting president); founded Dean Academy in 1865 2 Alonzo Ames Miner – 1814–1895: 1862–1875: Expansion and Civil War: 3 Elmer Hewitt Capen: 1860: ...
The list of Tufts University people includes alumni, professors, and administrators associated with Tufts University. For a list of Tufts' presidents, see List of presidents of Tufts University. It includes alumni and affiliates of the acquired Jackson College for Women and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Michael Beckley is an American political scientist currently serving as Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, [1] associate professor of political science at Tufts University, [2] and a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. [3]
In 1989, the board of trustees directed then-Tufts University president Jean Mayer to initiate a search for a new leader of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (which at the time included the College of Engineering) with a vice presidential title. According to the second volume of Tufts official history, the then-chair of the board of trustees ...
The Cannon (Tufts University) Carney Hospital; Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance; Center for International Environment and Resource Policy; College Hill station (Massachusetts) Communications and Media Studies, Tufts University; Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine