Event Type: Deadline/Reminder Event Sponsor: School of Dental Medicine Event Sponsor Department / Area: Periodontology department

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Time Gaps. From earliest possible historical models, Tufts Composers enter ancient structures through new doors. Past+Future=Present.

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1 Building: Pearson Chemical Laboratory City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room P-106 Open to Public: No Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Chemistry department Speaker Name: Prof. Petra Reinke, University of Virginia Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649 Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series Title: TBA

Online Location Details: https://www.myfidelitysite.com/TuftsUniversity/tufts-university/8222 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Financial Health Event Sponsor Details: Human Resources RSVP Information: https://fmr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Apq0vA2qTzKgKqYEC5Tl0g#/registration Link: https://fmr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Apq0vA2qTzKgKqYEC5Tl0g#/registration Starting November 1, 2025, Fidelity Investments will be the sole provider of administrative services for both the Tufts University-Funded Retirement Plan – 401(a) and the Self-Funded Retirement Plan – 403(b). Dan Shea and Matt Greeke from Fidelity will be hosting this virtual information session to review what the transition to Fidelity means and how it may affect you.

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jj27sWB2QI6uwFK8lPwAcA Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct16 It’s clear that the climate crisis is dire, dramatic changes inevitable and already underway, and action inadequate despite decades of increasingly urgent warnings by climate scientists. Culture plays a critical role in shaping how we receive and respond to information, guiding action on the micro and macro scales. How can stories help us to navigate this changing planet? In this talk, Emily will explore the possibilities that interdisciplinary nonfiction storytelling can offer when just the facts fall short. How can braiding journalism, science, history, memory, and imagination create space for discovering or remembering other ways of being and acting in relationship to the earth? She will draw on her own writing on environmental contamination from nuclear weapons production and emerging work on responses to climate change, as well as examples from other boundary-crossing nonfiction writers.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences The Tufts Pep Band performs a concert for children and families. Michel Muller, director

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Hinduism) Perhaps the most popular of all Hindu festivals, also known as the Festival of Lights, it is dedicated to the goddess Kali in Bengal and to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, in the rest of India. As with several other festivals, Diwali is associated with one of the stories about the destruction of evil by Vishnu in one of his many manifestations. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Sikhism) This day celebrates Gobind Singh Ji's passing on guruship to Scripture, henceforth known as the Guru Granth Sahib.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Jainism) This "Festival of Lamps" celebrates the attainment of Moksa by Lord Mahavira. A burning lamp symbolizes the "light of knowledge," which dispels the darkness of delusion and ignorance.

Online Location Details: Tufts University School of Medicine Building: Tufts Center for Medical Education City: Boston, MA 02111 Location Details: 145 Harrison Ave., first floor Boston, MA 02111 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Interns and Residents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium,Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Business,Clinical Care,Engineering/Technology,Health/Wellness,Innovation,Medicine,Research,Science Event Sponsor Details: Tufts CTSI RSVP Information: https://airtable.com/appWk1nJxJp9lKvfc/pagTct0TqzwabynIS/form Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Erin Gibson Event Contact Email: erin.gibson@tuftsmedicine.org Link: https://www.tuftsctsi.org/innovate2impact/ Do you have an idea or solution to a health or healthcare problem? Accelerate your drug, device, biologic, behavioral health intervention, or other innovation to the next level! Innovate2Impact is designed to propel your health-related innovation or idea through the next steps. Join us to showcase your early-stage concept or well-tested design, receive input from innovation experts, industry leaders, and clinical specialists, build collaborations, and explore funding opportunities. This four-part program is open to both emerging and experienced investigators working on health-related innovations. The series kicks off on Tuesday, October 21 with an Innovation Expo. The expo will showcase a variety of health-related innovations grounded in research, and teams developing innovations, investors, and anyone interested in improving health and healthcare are encouraged to attend. Emerging and experienced researchers may also submit abstracts via the registration link to participate in the lightning talks or poster session to gain valuable connections and potential funding opportunities.

Event Type: Deadline/Reminder Event Sponsor: School of Dental Medicine Event Sponsor Department / Area: Prosthodontics department

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Baha'i) The anniversary of the birth of the Bab, the herald of the new age for Baha'is. The Shrine of the Bab in Haifa, Israel, is part of the World Center of the Baha'i faith.

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1 Building: Pearson Chemical Laboratory City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room P-106 Open to Public: No Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Chemistry department Speaker Name: Prof. Pietro Strobbia, University of Cincinnati Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649 Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series Title: TBA

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Baha'i) The anniversary of the birth of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i faith. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work. 

Event Type: Deadline/Reminder Event Sponsor: School of Dental Medicine

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Diy8I2qzRSGyj2DQG85PSQ Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct23 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has attempted to regulate CO2 under the 1970 Clean Air Act, which serves as the foundation of U.S. air pollution policy. Conservative and liberal Supreme Court justices alike have claimed that legislators in 1970 would have been unfamiliar with the climate-altering effects of CO2, and these assertions have supported arguments that the law should not be used to regulate against climate change. In collaborative research with colleagues at Harvard and Duke, Dr. Lanier-Christensen demonstrates this is false: Clean Air Act architects intended for CO2 and its potential climatic impacts to be covered by the law. Their findings demonstrate that legislators conceptualized CO2 as pollution akin to radioactive fallout, pesticides, and smog, and that this knowledge informed the landmark air pollution law. This research provides the definitive historical analysis of what Congress meant when they included “climate” in the law and aims to strengthen legal claims pertaining to the EPA’s ability to tackle climate change.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Sonic Geo-Identification. Tufts Composers investigate their own geographic lineages and influences—sometimes difficult to detect—in new chamber works informed by unique personal experiences.

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1 Building: Pearson Chemical Laboratory City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room P-106 Open to Public: No Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Chemistry department Speaker Name: Prof. Peter Dedon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649 Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series Title: "Revisiting the Central Dogma in the Age of Epigenomes and Epitranscriptomes"

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EDXfAMyATsOvhnBhYKP6tw Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct30 This lecture examines the paradoxes of care and control in campus landscapes. I trace the tension between the ordered care of campus master planning and the improvisational care of grassroots agroecological experiment, showing how each constrained the futures that could be imagined. Using metaphors from Anna Karenina to Claude Shannon’s concept of informational entropy, I argue that sustainability emerges not from perfection but from surprise, multiplicity, and relational responsiveness. Case studies from the University of British Columbia and Yale demonstrate that when shared labor, student-centered pedagogy, and ecological complexity are foregrounded over metrics-driven control and efficiency, campuses can serve as laboratories for more just and adaptive futures. To “lose control” is not to embrace chaos but to resist foreclosure—to vivify the ecological and social futures of the university as open, relational, and delightfully, surprisingly weird.  

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Wicca/Paganism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. The New Year and the final harvest festival, celebrating the last gifts of the Earth before winter and the return of the spirits of the dead.