Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford, 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 disciplines 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 and former professor at the Harvard School of Public Health Jean Mayer became president of Tufts in the late 1970s and, through a series of rapid acquisitions, transformed the school into a larger research university.
College Avenue (MBTA station)
College Avenue is a planned light rail station on the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch, to be located at College Avenue next to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. It will be the northern terminus of the "D" Branch and is the final station on the second phase of the Green Line Extension. College Avenue will consist of one island platform, which will serve the "D" Branch's two tracks. As of December 2015, the future of the project is in doubt due to a substantial increase in costs; it will likely be further delayed or cancelled.
Previous commuter rail stations on what is now the Lowell Line were located nearby from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century, and from 1976 to 1979.
History
Commuter rail stations
The Boston and Lowell Railroad opened their namesake line in 1835, though local stops were not added immediately. By 1889, College Hill station was located on the north side of the tracks just west of College Avenue. By 1900, College Hill was replaced with Tufts College station, located on the opposite side of the tracks and slightly to the south at Pearson Street. Along with the other local stops in Somerville and Medford, Tufts College station was abandoned around 1950 due to competition from streetcars and buses.
List of Tufts University people
The following is a partial, incomplete list of notable Tufts University people. It includes alumni, professors, and others associated with Tufts University, a private research university in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts, US.
