Multimedia

Producing Films for Social Change

Watch films produced in an intensive hands-on, editorial and production course in which students pitch their ideas and then research, report, produce, shoot, write, and edit their own short documentary films on social issues affecting Tufts, the local community, the U.S., or the world.
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Showtime!

Spirit of Color -- a popular student dance troupe at Tufts with nearly 80 members -- held their annual fall show, entitled "Uproar." Experience the energy of the performance and the preparation in this audio slideshow.
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2006 Synder Lecture: Shelby Steele

Author Shelby Steele delivered the the Richard E. Snyder President's Lecture Series at Tufts. Steele's most recent book is titled "White Guilt: How Blacks & Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era." His lecture is available online in two parts: Part 1 | Part 2
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A Caretaker In The Community

As caretaker of the historic Brooks Estate in Medford, Mass., Tufts graduate student Josh Berkowitz is helping to preserve a community treasure.
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Making Magic On Stage

Each summer, Tufts' Magic Circle Theater gives young actors a chance to take center stage in a production at Tufts' Balch Arena Theater.
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Art From Around The Corner

This summer, the Tufts University Art Gallery hosted its Third Annual Summer Exhibition, featuring 11 artists from Medford and Somerville.
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Sophia Gordon Hall: Students' Reaction

This fall, fourth-year students oohed and aahed as they moved into Sophia Gordon Hall, Tufts' new 126-bed, "green" dormitory.
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Moving In: One Student's Experience

Share the experience of Samina Hossain, a native of nearby Lexington, Mass., as she moved to Tufts on Matriculation day to begin her freshman year.
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Matriculation 2006

With ambitions and luggage in tow, the Class of 2010 made its way to Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus last week. More than 1,280 men and women settled onto the Hill, ready to start the next chapter in their lives.
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Alumni Service Day 2006

The fourth annual Alumni Service Day focused its efforts on improvements to the boathouse of the Boys and Girls Club of Middlesex County along the Mystic River in Somerville.
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Commencement 2006

Multimedia features include an audio-visual slideshow, photo gallery, audio interviews with parents and complete audio of Lance Armstrong's address.
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Kids' Day 2006

On Apr. 8, local children flocked to the Medford/Somerville campus to enjoy this fun-filled event organized by the Leonard Carmichael Society, featuring the theme "Jumbo's Magical Kingdom.
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2006 President's Marathon Challenge

For the fourth straight year, Tufts fielded a crop of hardy marathoners to tackle Boston's famed 26.2-mile course, and all for a worthy cause. See photos from the race.
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Lorenzo Vidino: The Roots of Terrorism

First year Fletcher School master's student and terrorism expert Lorenzo Vidino talks about the state of Islamic fundamentalism in Europe, the progress of the United States in the war on terror and the future of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network.
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Edward R. Murrow Symposium: What Would Murrow See Now? The U.S. Press and the World

Discovery Channel Managing Editor Ted Koppel moderated a panel discussion between former NBC News president Neal Shapiro (A'80); Louise Lief, Deputy Director, International Reporting Project; Keith Richburg, Foreign Editor, The Washington Post; and Crocker Snow, Director, Murrow Center, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The lecture was webcast live and the video is archived here.
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Snyder Lecture: Tim Berners-Lee

The Spring 2006 Richard E. Snyder Presidential Lecture, delivered by MIT professor and World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, was entitled "Web Design and Web Use: Hopes and Fears." The lecture was webcast live and the video is archived here.
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"Heads or Tails?"

In April 2006, the Tufts Department of Drama and Dance staged the English-language debut -- and first college-student performance -- of Chinese director Meng Jinghui's play "Heads or Tails?" View images from rehearsals and cast gatherings as director and Assistant Professor of Drama Claire Conceison talks about the play.
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Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change

In fall 2005, University College Student Programs Manager Mindy Nierenberg taught this course in the Experimental College, showing Tufts undergraduates and Tufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts dual-degree students ways to use art as a vehicle of social change.
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Tufts Symphony Orchestra concert for Medford schoolchildren

On Jan. 9, 2006, the orchestra performed for more than 1,000 children from the Brooks and Roberts Elementary Schools in Medford. Selections included the "Star Wars" theme, Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" and Aaron Copeland's "Lincoln Portrait."
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Response and Recovery, In Retrospect

Peter Walker, director of the Feinstein International Famine Center at the Friedman School, looks back at a year where significant disaster struck both in the United States and around the world.
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