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Established in 1978 under the leadership of Tufts President Jean Mayer, the Cummings School was the first school of veterinary medicine in New England since the closure of Middlesex University in Waltham in 1947. The school is supervised by a dean, appointed by the university president and the provost, with the approval of the trustees.
Bill Cummings (philanthropist) Bill Cummings is an American philanthropist; his charitable foundation has nearly $2 billion in assets. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine [ 5] and the Cummings Veterinary Medical Center, both at Tufts University, are both named after him, because of major gifts he made to those institutions.
Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as in Talloires, France. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. [ 7]
As part of the MBTA's $2.28 billion Green Line Extension project, the university gained the Medford/Tufts station. The stop is the northern terminus of the E branch, located next to the Joyce Cummings Center and adjacent to Boston Avenue. The station opened on December 12, 2022 after numerous delays. [33]
Medford/Tufts. / 42.4081528°N 71.1173250°W / 42.4081528; -71.1173250. Medford/Tufts station is a light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Green Line located off Boston Avenue near College Avenue in Medford, Massachusetts, adjacent to Tufts University. The accessible station has a single island ...
Helen Boucher, Director of the Tufts Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance; Lauro Cavazos, Dean of Tufts University School of Medicine (1975-1980), and United States Secretary of Education (1988-1990) Anna Quincy Churchill, professor of anatomy from 1923 to 1954; Jane F. Desforges, hematologist and professor of medicine
Goddard Hall, 1939. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy was founded in 1933 with the bequest of Austin Barclay Fletcher, who left over $3 million to Tufts University upon his death in 1923. A third of these funds were dedicated “for the establishment and maintenance of a School of Law and Diplomacy, to be known as The Fletcher School of ...
Tufts Medical Center. / 42.34951; -71.06331. Tufts Medical Center (until 2008 Tufts-New England Medical Center ), a 15-building campus located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a downtown Boston hospital midway between Chinatown and the Boston Theater District . The hospital is a community-based full service medical center.