* Introduction:
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The university is organized into ten schools including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and the French Alps. The university emphasizes active citizenship and public service in all of its discipline and is known for its internationalism and study abroad programs. Among its schools is the United States' oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Tufts College was founded in 1852 by Christian Universalists who worked for years to open a non-sectarian institution of higher learning Charles Tufts donated the land for the campus on Walnut Hill, the highest point in Medford, saying that he wanted to set a "light on the hill." The name was changed to Tufts University in 1954, although the corporate name remains "the Trustees of Tufts College." For more than a century, Tufts was a small New England liberal arts college. The French-American nutritionist Jean Mayer became president of Tufts in the late 1970s and, through a series of rapid acquisitions, transformed the school into an internationally renowned research university It is known as both a Little Ivy and a "New Ivy" and consistently ranks among the nation's top schools. tuffs collage,1854 at 1910
Mission Statement
The vision of the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences is to "foster a culture where excellence and innovation are applied to scholarly and creative activities. This environment provides a transformative educational experience to a diverse community of undergraduate and graduate students who will make their mark as leaders, scholars, and citizens in an increasingly interdependent, complex world."
Under this framework the Fuchs lab has two primary missions: 1. To educate and train the next generation of scientists such that they will become leaders in society 2. To develop innovative scientific approaches in order to advance our understanding of the many factors that regulate protein function, with the hope of ultimately developing potentially useful tools, materials and therapeutics. * Campuses:
The University has four main campuses—three in the Boston area and one in southern France. The main campus is located on the border of Medford and Somerville just outside Boston. The medical and dental school are located in Boston proper, and the veterinary school is located in central Massachusetts, in Grafton.

1. Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts

Packard Hall
Tufts' main campus is located on Walnut Hill in Medford, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from Boston. This campus houses all undergraduates in Arts & Sciences and Engineering, the graduate programs at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and all of the graduate programs in Arts & Sciences and Engineering. While the majority of the campus is in Medford, the Somerville line intersects it, placing parts of the lower campus in Somerville and leading to the common terms "Uphill" and "Downhill." Many points on the hill have noted views of the Boston skyline, particularly the patio on the Tisch Library roof. It has been ranked one of the prettiest college campuses in America. The offices of the president, the provost, and several vice presidents and deans are located in Ballou Hall, and administrative offices occupy the surrounding neighborhoods and nearby Davis Square, where Tufts makes payments in lieu of taxes on some of its tax-exempt (educational) properties 2. Chinatown, Boston
The Schools of Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Dental Medicine, and the Friedman School of Nutrition are located on a campus in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, adjacent to Tufts Medical Center, a 451-bed academic medical institution. All full-time Tufts Medical Center physicians hold clinical faculty appointments at Tufts School of Medicine. 3. Grafton, Massachusetts
The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is located in Grafton, Massachusetts, west of Boston, on a 634-acre (2.566 km2) campus. The school also maintains the Ambulatory Farm Clinic in Woodstock, Connecticut and the Tufts Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole on Cape Cod.

4. Talloires, France

The Tufts European Center on the Talloires campus
Tufts has a satellite campus in Talloires, France at the Tufts European Center, a former Benedictine priory built in the 11th century. The priory was purchased in 1958 by Donald MacJannet and his wife Charlotte and used as a summer camp site for several years before the MacJannets gave the campus to Tufts in 1978. Each year the center hosts a number of summer study programs, and enrolled students live with local families. There are programs for American high school students during the month of July, as well as a 6-week program for Tufts undergraduates that extends from the middle of May until the end of June. The site is frequently the host of international conferences and summits, most notably the Talloires Declaration which united 22 universities toward a goal of sustainability * Academic organization:
Tufts University comprises ten schools including:
Both undergraduate and graduate students * The School of Arts and Sciences (1898 or 1903) * The School of Engineering (1898) * The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service (2000) – non-degree-granting
Exclusively undergraduate students * The College of Special Studies (1939), which awards the degree of bachelor of fine arts through a cooperative arrangement with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Exclusively graduate students * The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1933), America's oldest graduate school for international relations and foreign affairs * The School of Dental Medicine (1899) * The School of Medicine (1893), whose primary affiliated hospitals are the Tufts Medical Center and the Baystate Medical Center * The Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences (1981) * The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (1981), the only graduate school of nutrition in North America, with the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center * The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine (1978), the only veterinary school in New England
Former schools * The Crane Theological School opened in 1869 and closed in 1968
Each school has its own faculty and is led by a dean appointed by the president and the provost with the consent of the Board of Trustees. In addition, the university is affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the New England Conservatory.
The School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering are the only schools that award both undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Jackson College for Women, established in 1910 as a coordinate college adjacent to the Tufts campus, was integrated with the College of Liberal Arts in 1980, but is recognized in the formal name of the undergraduate arts and sciences division, the "College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College." Undergraduate women in arts and sciences continued to receive their diplomas from Jackson College until 2002.
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service was founded in 2000 "to educate for active citizenship" with the help of a $10 million gift from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. The school was renamed in 2006 after a $40 million gift from Jonathan Tisch. It has been called the "most ambitious attempt by any research university to make public service part of its core academic mission." Tisch College does not grant degrees; the college facilitates and supports a wide range of community service, civic engagement programs, research, and teaching initiatives across the university.
Under the purview of the School of Arts and Sciences is the Experimental College, a non-degree-granting entity created in 1964 as a proving ground for innovative, experimental, and interdisciplinary curricula and courses. It offers the opportunity for students to take for-credit courses with non-academic practitioners in a variety of fields, and also from upper-level undergraduates who have a chance to design and teach their own courses. Another successful component of the Ex College is EPIIC, a year-long program begun in 1985 to immerse students in a global issue, which culminates in an annual symposium of scholars and experts from the field. * Admissions
Bendetson Hall, on the Medford/Somerville campus, houses the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
Undergraduate admissions
In the 2013 U.S. News & World Report college rankings, Tufts ranked as one of the top 20 most selective schools among national universities in the United States. For the class of 2017, Tufts accepted 18.7% of 18,420 applicants, an all-time low. For the matriculating class of 2016, 91% of incoming freshmen rank in the top 10% of their high school class (up one percent from the previous year). Tufts expects approximately 39 percent of its admitted students to enroll. The most common overlap schools are Brown University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown University.
In 2006, Dean of Arts and Sciences Robert Sternberg added experimental criteria to the application process for undergraduates to test "creativity and other non-academic factors," including inviting applicants to submit YouTube videos to supplement their application. Calling it the "first major university to try such a departure from the norm," Inside Higher Ed also notes that Tufts continues to consider the SAT and other traditional criteria.
Graduate admissions
The graduate schools each hold their own admission process. Students apply directly to the graduate program to which they are seeking acceptance, and so acceptance rates vary dramatically between programs. * Libraries

Entrance to Tisch Library, the main library on campus
A comfy seating area on the 4th floor of the Hirsh Health Sciences Library, where faculty and students may study or have lunch
The Tufts University Library System contains over three million volumes. The main library, Tisch Library, holds about 2.5 million volumes, with other holdings dispersed at subject libraries including the Hirsh Health Sciences Library on the Boston campus, the Edwin Ginn Library at the Fletcher School, and Webster Family Library at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine on the Grafton campus. * People:
Stephen M. Fuchs, Principal Investigator
My research group is broadly focused understanding how protein structure relates to protein function. We address diverse questions using a broad spectrum of approaches from classical genetics to synthetic chemistry. Our goal is to understand biological phenomena, in order to translate our findings into new materials, therapeutics, or diagnostic tools.
Current work in the lab is exploring: * Post-translational modifications of histones * Regulator mechanisms the control the activity of RNA polymerase II * Epigenetic inheritance of histone modifications * Regulation of repetitive protein function
Current Lab Members Postdoctoral Scholars | Adam Lothrop
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D. Chemistry
University of Vermont
Research Interests: Proline isomerization in RNA polymerase function | Graduate Students | Michael Babokhov
Graduate Student
B.S. Northeastern University | Ishtiaque Quasem
Graduate Student
B.S. University of South Florida
M.S. University of South Florida
Research Interests: Epigenetic inheritance of histone modifications | Undergraduate Students | April Anamisis
Undergraduate Student | Chelsea Miller
Undergraduate Student | Summer Morrill
Undergraduate Student | Mohammad Mosaheb
Undergraduate Student | Bradley Reinfeld
Undergraduate Student | Lola Yu
Undergraduate Student | Visiting Scientists | Max Kafka
B.S. Loyola Chicago 2012 | |