Sophie is a deputy arts editor and a staff writer for News at the Daily. She is a sophomore studying international relations and French and can be reached at sophia.herron@tufts.edu.
Diana Fernandez Bibeau, deputy chief of urban design for the City of Boston, didn’t plan to work in the public sector. She began as an architect and was inspired by American architect Buckminster Fuller’s work around “innovative city making.” This interest led her to landscape architecture and urban design.
Donald Chapelle, founder and owner of Brilliant Ice Sculpture, made his first foray into the world of ice carving at 18 years old. He was living in a hotel and noticed a large block of ice in the freezer. A waiter told him it was used to make sculptures.
Ellie Ayati Jian began her career as a milliner by coincidence. Originally trained as an architect and interior designer, she stepped into the world of hat-making when a friend asked her to enter the contest for the Longines Prize for Elegance at the Belmont Stakes, a fashion contest in New York. When Jian couldn’t find a fascinator to match her outfit, she decided to make one instead, ultimately winning the prize for most elegant look of the day.
“Moriarty is dead, to begin with.” And after spending three years without his nemesis, master detective Sherlock Holmes is bored and depressed. No case in London tempts him, and he is estranged from his now-married friend Dr. John Watson, even refusing to come to his house for Christmas. Worse, he imagines that he sees Moriarty’s ghost around London. Gloomy, grouchy and very much not in the Christmas spirit, Holmes mopes alone on Christmas Eve — until a doctor asks him to investigate a mysterious death.
The second round of Project: Pop-Up Medford will transform 348 Boston Ave. into a shared retail space for three small businesses from November 2025 to January 2026. The project — a collaboration between the City of Medford, Tufts University and retail incubator consulting firm UpNext — provides microenterprises with the opportunity to promote their work, try new business models and learn how to operate a retail storefront.
Clockmaking runs in the family of Richard Hills, an antique horologist and owner of Hills Antique Clocks in Holliston. Throughout high school and college, he worked in his brother’s repair shop in Wellesley and, after graduating, continued clockmaking on the side while working as a bioanalytical chemist.
For pastry chefs Richard Akers-Barrows and Maura Kilpatrick, baking is about imagination.
The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University spans 281 acres with a collection of more than 16,000 plants. Rodney Eason, director of horticulture and landscape at the arboretum, can recognize these plants by sight and tell their stories by heart.
Tufts Climate Action hosted a banner drop in support of Make Polluters Pay on Oct. 3. The campaign aims to raise public and legislative support for climate superfund bills. Organized with student groups Sunrise Smith, Sunrise UMass and Sunrise Harvard, the banner drop was preceded by the gathering ...
“Every day is awesome” for Rodney Eason, director of horticulture and landscape at the Arnold Arboretum. Purchased by Harvard in 1872, the land was converted into a park by the father of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the founding director of the Arboretum, Charles Sprague Sargent. Today, the Arboretum is a living museum, a research institution and one of the nine public parks that form Boston’s Emerald Necklace.
