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Training Ground
Innovative program prepares Arts, Sciences, and Engineering graduate students to teach at the college/university level.

Graduate Receives Prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Award
Tali Ditman has received the 2007-2008 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) Doctoral Dissertation Award. Ditman is the first Tufts Arts and Sciences graduate to receive this award, which is bestowed to a Ph.D. student who has completed his or her doctoral work within the previous five years. Doctoral students eligible for the annual award come from 120 graduate schools in the United States and Canada, including research universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins.

A Helping Hand
Tufts program helps arts, sciences, and engineering international graduate students improve their writing and presentation skills.

New Global History Program
A new graduate program in global history is bringing the world to Tufts.

Matriculation 2007
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the School of Engineering welcomed the 2007 graduate student class to Tufts during a ceremony in August.

Tufts chemistry professor and department chair Krishna Kumar was named one of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by <em>Technology Review</em> for his cutting-edge research on proteins that may have many medical uses.

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The Graduate Student Council (GSC) was established in the late 1980s and provides a forum for graduate students across all the disciplines. Each year, the GSC hosts a graduate student research symposium, a Giving Tree program (which donates toys to anonymous local children in the Medford/Somerville area) and a 5k Run/Walk, an event which has raised over $35,000 for a variety of charitable causes.

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The ratio of students to faculty rarely exceeds 12-1 in any Arts and Sciences graduate program, supporting the growth of significant mentoring and collegial relationships between faculty and students.

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The Department of Education is helping meet the need for good urban teachers through its Urban Teaching Training Collaborative (UTTC). The program places education graduate students in Boston-area schools were they work closely with a mentor teacher.

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