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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 .
The football field at Tufts University was named in his honor as Frederick M. Ellis Oval at homecoming in 1969. [2] [14] The Frederick M. Ellis Prize Scholarship at Tufts is named in his memory. [15] On April 21, 2018, Ellis was a member of the inaugural class inducted into the Tufts University Athletics Hall of Fame. [6] [16]
Nils Yngve Wessell (April 14, 1914 – March 4, 2007) was an American psychologist and the eighth president of Tufts University from 1953 to 1966, overseeing its transformation from a small liberal arts college to an internationally known research university.
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 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: ...
Peter Ackerman, F69, dounding dhair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict; Zainah Anwar, women's rights activist, former head of the Sisters in Islam; C. Fred Bergsten, F62, senior fellow and director emeritus, former director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, former United States Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Treasury
1966, 1970 2006 Physics "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation" [101] Joseph Stiglitz: PhD 1966 2001 Economics "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information" [76] Carl E. Wieman: B.S. 1973 2001 Physics
A Tufts football team has played since the 1874–75 season. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Tufts football team played its first game on June 4, 1875, against Harvard , which Tufts won by a score of 1–0. This game is considered the first game of American football between two American colleges, with each team fielding 11 men, the ball being advanced by ...