Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
The Tufts Daily
Where you read it first | Tuesday, September 22, 2026
The Print Edition Print Subscription
Donate | About | Join Us
Advertise | Submit a Tip
Subscribe to our newsletters

Abilene Adelman

Features Writer

Abilene is a writer for the features section of the Daily. She is a junior majoring in English and Environmental Studies and can be reached at abilene.adelman@tufts.edu.

TUPIT Speak-Out
Features

‘TUPIT matters’: Students maintain community as future of TUPIT remains unclear

By Abilene Adelman | September 22

MyTERN, the Education and Reentry Network program run by the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College, brings formerly incarcerated students to the Tufts campus to learn alongside full-time Tufts students. In July, Joseph Auner, Tufts’ interim provost and senior vice president, sent an email announcing the suspension of the in-person MyTERN program for the 2026–27 school year. The decision followed a shooting in May that involved Tyler Brown, a student who had been previously enrolled in the program.

IMG_9183-1
Features

Krista Johansen and the sacred work at Tufts’ Anatomy Laboratory

By Abilene Adelman | April 27

“The history of medicine is built on a bed of corpses,” journalist Hayley Campbell wrote in her 2022 book “All the Living and the Dead.” These corpses are cadavers, donated or unclaimed human remains used for scientific research. Krista Johansen, a clinical anatomist and assistant professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine in the Department of Medical Education, works with these cadavers every day.

DSC09100.jpg
Features

Leonard Carmichael Society subgroups give back to community on Day of Service

By Abilene Adelman | April 14

If you were walking around the Tufts campus on Friday, March 27, you may have seen a large group of students and faculty near Breed Memorial Hall. The group was decked out in blue T-shirts and armed with litter pickers as they worked to clean up trash on Tufts’ campus. While you may have only seen this one group, they were actually part of a much larger event. March 27 marked this year’s Leonard Carmichael Society Day of Service.

FeaturesSpots
Features

The Daily’s Features Staff’s guide to exploring Tufts’ campus

By Jaden Gardiola, Katie Galligan, Sanya Bandekar, Annicka Sen, Maia Goldman, Olivia Bye and Abilene Adelman | April 9

Going somewhere new, especially a place as sprawling and expansive as a college campus, can be intimidating. It often takes weeks or months to truly settle in and adopt a routine and sense of familiarity; however, that doesn’t mean you can’t get some help along the way. Below is a guide to some of the Features Staff’s favorite spots on campus to study, relax or hang out with friends at — perfect for whether you’ve just arrived on campus or whether you’re simply looking to explore someplace new.

IMG_7991.jpg
Features

The power of transformation: Tufts’ annual ILCS Symposium

By Abilene Adelman | February 18

The Tufts literary community gathered in Alumnae Lounge on Feb. 6 to weather the cold with the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies’ annual symposium. This year’s theme, ‘Transformation Now!’, framed a morning of scholarship where speakers took turns sharing their theses, papers and research revolving around the topic of transformation.

Members of the TEMS team are pictured around a TEMS car.
Features

TEMS: More than just Tufts’ alcohol ambulance

By Abilene Adelman | February 5

For many new students at Tufts, the idea of living on their own for the first time is intimidating. They are now responsible not only for their studies, but also for laundry, meals and even their own physical health. One thing that can be particularly frightening to experience while away from home is a medical emergency.

IMG_4664.jpg
Theater

Theater at Tufts: A place of community, passion and so much love

By Abilene Adelman | October 23

Ben Platt opened his intimate “An Evening with Ben Platt” show held in the Granoff Music Center on Oct. 11 with a cover of Billy Joel’s “Vienna,” seemingly singing directly to the place that he was inhabiting — a college campus full of students always in need of a reminder that there is more to life than their upcoming midterm.

IMG_7591-scaled
Features

Get to know Lee Edelman, English professor and pioneer in queer theory

By Abilene Adelman | October 7

When Lee Edelman — a professor in the Department of English at Tufts and Fletcher professor of English literature — was a child, he wanted to become either a cartoonist or an architect. His career as a longtime professor at Tufts and a respected scholar of queer theory diverges from those early ambitions, but his path has been just as creative and carefully constructed nonetheless.

More articles »

Trending
The Tufts Daily Crossword with an image of a crossword puzzle
The Print Edition
Tufts Daily front page