Tufts University

Tufts University

      private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher education, located in Medford where it meets Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S. Tufts grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. Its largest academic division, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is made up of the College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College, the College of Engineering, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Special Studies. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the School of Nutrition Science and Policy are also based at the Medford campus. A branch campus in Boston, which is affiliated with the New England Medical Center hospitals, contains the School of Medicine, the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and the School of Dental Medicine. The principal clinical facilities of the School of Veterinary Medicine are located in North Grafton. An overseas study centre is maintained in Talloires, France. Among the many research units at Tufts are the Electro-Optics Technology Center and the Center on Hunger, Poverty, and Nutrition Policy. Total enrollment exceeds 8,000.

      Hosea Ballou (1796–1861), nephew of the theologian Hosea Ballou (1771–1852), was joined by Universalist church members in founding Tufts College in 1852 and served as its first president. It was named for its original benefactor, Charles Tufts of Somerville. Women were first admitted in 1892 and were segregated in 1910 with the creation of Jackson College for Women; the physical separation of women and men, however lasted only until 1912. By the end of the 19th century the college had formed schools of medicine, dentistry, and graduate studies. Tufts was elevated to university status in 1955. Geologist Alfred Church Lane and physicist Allan M. Cormack (Cormack, Allan MacLeod) served on the faculty, and poet John Ciardi (Ciardi, John) and U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Moynihan, Daniel Patrick) are alumni.

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