Campus news

Following a day of live pitching and deliberation, winners for the $100k New Ventures Competition have been announced.

Earle Yaffa, Kim & Alan Hartman, and the Joseph H. Flom Foundation gift $1.2 million to the Derby Entrepreneurship Center (DEC) in support of the Tufts Venture Accelerator.

Congratulations to Amma Agyei, Emma Downey, and Olif Soboka Hordofa for being named Tufts Senior Award honorees.

Diamond Mensah, E23, and Varshini Ramanathan, E23, were named to the Goldwater Scholarship Program, which recognizes the country’s next generation of research leaders in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics.

Warby Parker co-founder and co-CEO will speak at May 27 festivities celebrating graduates whose last year at Tufts was interrupted by the early days of pandemic.

An award-winning author focusing on immigration, Lee, J91, is among six honorary degree recipients, part of a commencement week that includes a celebration for Class of 2020 graduates.

With a rise in applications, students admitted to Tufts for the fall are a diverse group eager to make the world a better place.

René LaPointe Jameson, E22, will deliver the Wendell Phillips Address at the Baccalaureate Ceremony next month.

Davide Dukcevich, A96, has made a $1 million donation to the Kaplan Lab, supporting research to develop cultivated meat as a sustainable, healthy protein.