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Something That's Needed | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University

Kate Levant, BFA '06,  is sitting on the second floor of KAJE, the experimental arts not-for-profit that she and fellow SMFA alum Jacques Vidal, BFA ‘04, founded in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood. "What I'm working on is growing this organization," she says, gesturing to the open gallery space below her where exhibition designer Grace Caiazza is about to install a modular display system for a group exhibition titled "Arachnophobia."

Mendoza Business Magazine - How To Be A Mentor

In Homer’s “The Odyssey,” when Odysseus embarks on his voyage home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, he entrusts his son, Telemachus, into the care of his trusted friend whose name is Mentor. The famous character serves as a guide to the young man and helps him hone his values, character and aspirations. Today, in the business world and beyond, mentors can continue to fulfill this same worthwhile quest.

Celebrating the Legacy of Performance Art at SMFA at Tufts | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University

At age eleven, Lu Adami, MFA ‘25, first took free quilting lessons at a local public library in Chicagoland and has continued working in the craft ever since. Although Adami was formally trained in figurative painting as an undergraduate at Brown, quilting is now at the heart of their practice.  Traditionally, quiltmaking takes place around a circle, and Adami has come to view the inclusive act as representing the things they value most: community, care, and respect.

Houck and Ansari, PhD students, further their dissertation research abroad | MIT Center for International Studies

Olivia Wynne Houck and Natasha Ansari are the recipients of the 2024 Jeanne Guillemin Prize awarded by the MIT Center for International Studies.  The Guillemin Prize provides critical funding for female-identifying PhD students pursuing research in international affairs. The annual prize was endowed by its namesake, Jeanne Guillemin, shortly before her passing in 2019. A longtime CIS associate and former Boston College professor, Guillemin dedicated her career as a science and national security...
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