Tufts University

Tufts College, c. 1854
Jumbo in the Barnum Museum of Natural History
Walnut Hill as it appeared prior to the construction of Tisch Library and steps, circa 1910. In the center is Eaton Hall. The road to the right no longer exists.
Sophia Gordon Hall (2006) is Tufts' newest residence hall
Foreign Ministers Boris Johnson (United Kingdom), Federica Mogherini (European Union), Paolo Gentiloni (Italy), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany) and Jean-Marc Ayrault (France) with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaking at Tufts University, September 2016
Packard Hall
Goddard Chapel
Eaton Hall
East Hall
Memorial Steps
Jean Mayer Administration Building, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
The Tufts European Center on the Talloires campus
Gifford House, residence of the President
Anderson Hall, the School of Engineering
Arnold Wing, the School of Medicine
Goddard Hall, the Fletcher School
Bendetson Hall, on the Medford/Somerville campus, houses the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
Carmichael Hall on the Residence Quad
Entrance to Tisch Library, the main library on campus
Ginn Library at the Fletcher School
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University
Student protest for fossil fuel divestment
Stratton Hall, a downhill residence hall
West Hall, an uphill residence hall
The Tufts cannon, repainted almost nightly during the academic year, is here painted in response to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan
Eugene Fama, Nobel Prize-winning economist (B.A. 1960)
Roderick MacKinnon, Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient (M.D. 1982)
Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia and recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize (MA, 1981)
Victor McKusick, geneticist, known as the father of medical genetics (COL, 1943)
Vannevar Bush, inventor and science administrator, founder of Raytheon (BS, 1913; MS, 1913)
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase (BA, 1978)
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay (BS, 1988)
Dov Charney, Founder and CEO of American Apparel (Did not graduate)
Susan Decker, Former president of Yahoo! Inc. (B.S. 1984)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., Publisher of The New York Times (BA, 1974)
Joi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur, former director of MIT Media Lab (COL, 1985)
Norbert Wiener, child prodigy and youngest Tufts graduate (BA, 1909)
Shashi Tharoor, former Under-Secretary General at the United Nations (MA, 1976; Ph.D, 1978)
Joseph Dunford, 19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Scott Brown, Diplomat and United States Senator for Massachusetts (B.A. 1981)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (BS, 1948; MA, 1949; PhD, 1961)
Arjun Narsingh KC, Nepali Politician and Former Health and Education Minister (Fellowship, 1982)
Tracy Chapman, Grammy Award-winning artist (BA, 1986)
Michelle Kwan, American figure skater and two time Olympic medalist (MA, 2011)
Meredith Vieira, American journalist, talk show and game show host (BA, 1975)
Gordon Wood, historian, Pulitzer Prize winning author (BA, 1955)
Peter Gallagher, American actor, musician, and writer (BA,1977)
William Hurt, Academy Award-winning actor (B.A. 1972)
Hank Azaria, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and producer (BA, 1985)
Oliver Platt, Stage and screen actor (BA, 1983)
Jessica Biel, Actress (Did not graduate)
Rainn Wilson, Actor (Did not graduate)

Private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts.

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School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts

The Weems Center, part of Graham Gund's expansion, looking down from the third floor

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Tufts University School of Medicine

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The Tufts University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tufts University, a private research university in Massachusetts.

Medford, Massachusetts

City 6.7 mi northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

City 6.7 mi northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

Detail of William Wood's 1634 map of New England, showing Naumkeag sachem Wonohaquaham, known by English colonists as Sagamore John, in Medford.
1790 bird's-eye view from Bunker Hill of the "Malden Bridge" across the Mystic River, with Medford in the background.
1852 map of Boston area showing Medford and rail lines.
Clipper ship Thatcher Magoun

It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus along the Medford and Somerville border.

Jordan Hall NEC's principal performance space

New England Conservatory of Music

Private music school in Boston, Massachusetts.

Private music school in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jordan Hall NEC's principal performance space
Eben Tourjée
290-94 Huntington Avenue, NEC's main building, was built in 1901 and designed by Wheelwright and Haven. It is the location of Jordan Hall.
The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra performing in Jordan Hall.

Also offered are five-year joint double-degree programs with Harvard University and Tufts University.

Somerville, Massachusetts

City located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

City located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

The Old Powder House in Nathan Tufts Park
Ross Moffett's A Skirmish Between British and Colonists near Somerville in Revolutionary Times, 1937
Martha Perry Lowe School (1904)
1884 map of Somerville demarcating each of the wards within the city
Seven Hills Park at Davis Square. The towers in the park each represent one of the city's original hills.
Entrance of the Somerville Theatre
Somerville City Hall
Façade of Somerville High School
The historic Somerville Journal Building in 2009
1907 postcard of Somerville Highlands Station
Route of the Green Line Extension
McGrath Highway (Route 28) in Somerville

It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus along the Somerville and Medford border.

The Fletcher School at Tufts University

Old logo of the school.
Excerpts from the Will of Austin B. Fletcher
Goddard Hall, 1939
Cabot Intercultural Center, 2010
Mugar Hall, 2009
Goddard Hall, 2010

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts.

Goddard College

Progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington.

Progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington.

Goddard College's Greatwood Campus in Plainfield, Vermont
Goddard College Clockhouse
Royce S. "Tim" Pitkin, President of Goddard College for 31 years.
Trey Anastasio, musician, composer
Evalyn Bates, educator, Goddard College co-founder
Miriam Hopkins, actress
Jonathan Katz, comedian
William H. Macy, actor
David Mamet, playwright
Walter Mosley, novelist
Archie Shepp, musician
Tommie Smith, athlete
Paul Zaloom, actor

Founded by Universalists, Goddard Seminary was originally a four-year preparatory high school, primarily affiliated with Tufts College.

Off Center Cross of Universalist Church of America before the 1961 merger.

Universalist Church of America

Originally a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world).

Originally a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world).

Off Center Cross of Universalist Church of America before the 1961 merger.
Edward Hopper, Universalist Church, 1926, Princeton University Art Museum, depicting the founding Universalist congregation in Gloucester, Massachusetts
The official seal of the Universalist General Convention
Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington, D.C.

1885–1913) at Lombard College, and the Crane Theological School of Tufts University (1869–1968).

Barnum in 1851

P. T. Barnum

American showman, businessman, and politician, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017) with James Anthony Bailey.

American showman, businessman, and politician, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017) with James Anthony Bailey.

Barnum in 1851
Entertainers associated with Barnum: Charles Stratton ("General Tom Thumb") and his bride Lavinia Warren, alongside her sister Minnie and George Washington Morrison Nutt ("Commodore Nutt")
1866 newspaper advertisement for Barnum's American Museum located on Ann Street in Manhattan
Castle Garden, New York, venue of Lind's first American concerts
Parody of Lind's first American tour for Barnum, New York City, October 1850
Barnum with Commodore Nutt, photograph by Charles DeForest Fredricks
Winter Quarters of the Great Barnum-London Show before 1886
Share of the Barnum and Bailey Ltd, issued January 24, 1902
"Hum-Bug": a cartoon by H. L. Stephens (1851)
Caricature of an elderly Barnum in the London magazine Vanity Fair, November 1889
P. T. Barnum, sculpted by Thomas Ball (1887), Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Obverse of the 1936 commemorative Bridgeport Centennial Half Dollar

He was appointed to the Board of Trustees to Tufts University prior to its founding, and he made several significant contributions to the fledgling institution, including a gift of $50,000 in 1883 to establish a museum (later known as Barnum Museum of Natural History) and hall for the Department of Natural History.

Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences

The School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is the largest of the eight schools and colleges that comprise Tufts University.