Tufts' Office of Sustainability, in conjunction with the ExCollege class "Environmental Action: Shifting for Saying to Doing," hosted a half-day conference for college students in the New England region to share best practices in peer-to-peer education. Eco-Reps are students who...
We're just a box full of robots. (More Tufts Robotics fun on Twitter)...
Our friends at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions video-recorded Dean Lee Coffin's remarks about the Class of 2013: Also, we found this cool video from the annual candlelighting ceremony -- a rite that the incoming class will revisit when they...
By Marcin Chwistek, MD, Attending Physician, Pain and Palliative Care Program, Supportive Oncology Care, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA I joined Twitter around the last elections, fascinated by social media’s power in inducing a societal change. The optimism and...
by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D., Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine I teach Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication in the Health Communication Program . While this doesn't have to do with pain per se,...
Last week, I attended a brown-bag lunch meeting at the offices of Academic Technology, a group within University Information Technology that provides technological support to learning initiatives on campus. They are an innovative bunch -- just check out their projects...
The wait is over! The @TuftsUniversity Twitter account finally has Lists, Twitter's new tool for organizing and promoting collections of followers. Right now, we've created lists for official university entities, student groups, schools and a list for each campus, but...
I love how social media still has the ability to surprise me. Back during our live-tweeting of Commencment, we posted photos from the ceremony, including this one offering a wide shot of the stage and the assembled graduates. Just today,...
Whether you are maintaining your own social media presence or that of your institution or department, you may currently be focusing on creating a name for yourself and your web personality. But once you've moved from the "getting your feet...
Yesterday, someone inquired via our Twitter account, "Who's the most innovative & forward-looking person in your web communications department?" I do not know this individual, or why in particular they asked this question, but I thought it was an interesting...
So you say you are a Twitter skeptic? I will admit, I was as well. I thought, I have a Facebook account, I update my status there, do people in the Internet world really need more me? When we started...
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