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Elizabeth Zacks

Elizabeth Zacks is a senior staff writer for features. She has previously served as features exec. Elizabeth is a senior studying art history and French, and you can reach her at elizabeth.zacks@tufts.edu.

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Hubbub Studios’ newest episode brings urban planning research to life

By Elizabeth Zacks | March 6

Hubbub Studios is home to a videoseries that explorescurrent and pressing urban environment research and issuesin order to distill them into easy-to-follow videos. Hubbub is led byProfessor Justin Hollander of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning in collaboration with some of his students.They areoffering new content that presents research in a fun, engaging and accessible way.

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Senior Profile: Wendell Phillips Award recipient Isabelle Charles reflects on her time at Tufts

By Elizabeth Zacks | May 21

Isabelle Charles, a senior majoring in English and Africana studies, is the 2023 recipient of the Wendell Phillips Award. This annual award is given to a senior who is both an exceptional speaker and has a great sense of responsibility toward the community. As the Wendell Phillips Award winner, Charles will give a speech as part of Commencement weekend during the Baccalaureate Ceremony on May 20.

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The Joyce Cummings Center welcomes three new art installations across different mediums

By Elizabeth Zacks | October 3

The Joyce Cummings Center is now home to three commissioned art installations that celebrate the connections between art, academics and the Tufts and local communities. The three pieces, “Fractals Transcending,”“The Poetry of Reason” and “The Sum of Ostrom, Common Pots, and Persistence” not only span multiple floors of the Cummings Center, but multiple mediums, ranging from sculpture to mural to digital art animation. 

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The return of Tufts in Talloires: Students, faculty share their memories from Talloires, France

By Elizabeth Zacks | September 6

The Tufts in Talloires summer study abroad program was back in full swing this summer after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From May 17 to July 1, various Tufts faculty members and approximately 70 students returned to the beloved Tufts European Center in Talloires, France, and spent six weeks learning, collaborating and connecting with the local community. 

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Psychology department hosts second annual anti-racism colloquium

By Elizabeth Zacks | April 20

The psychology department hosted its second annual Psychology of Anti-Racism Series talk titled, “What We Learn From Where We Live,” on April 15. The Zoom webinar featured Dr. Neil Lewis Jr., an assistant professor of communication and social behavior at Cornell University, who spoke about how to foster an anti-racist society by understanding the connection between people and the places in which they live.

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Alumni Association honors 12 seniors

By Elizabeth Zacks | April 7

Disclaimer: Alex Viveros is the current investigative editor and science editor of The Tufts Daily. He also has served on the Daily’s Managing Board, ultimately as editor in chief. Viveros was not involved in the reporting, writing or editing of this article.

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Caitlin Casey joins advising team as undergraduate advising dean

By Elizabeth Zacks | March 30

Caitlin Caseyjoined the Tufts undergraduate advising team of the School of Arts and Sciences as associate dean of undergraduate advising in February. Casey advises upward of 1,000 undergraduate students with last names beginning with the letters S through Z. Before coming to Tufts, Casey worked at Harvard as the assistant dean of Harvard College and as the Allston Burr resident dean of Lowell House.

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