Selected Programs

The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) is an undergraduate organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations. Through joint education, research, and training, ALLIES provides military and civilian students and professionals alike the opportunity to explore significant topics, events and policy while developing relationships that will last a lifetime.

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Discourse provides an inclusive platform for reasoned discussion and prescriptive analysis of issues of both international and domestic concern, while also including poetry, fiction, art and photography to illuminate the human condition. Its emphasis is on exploring a diversity of thought and perspectives from students, scholars, and practitioners. The purpose of Discourse is to provide an open forum for discussion of contemporary di...

The Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship educates, mentors, guides and motivates aspiring social entrepreneurs. Empower is a program for Tufts University undergraduate and graduate students to engage in practical, experiential learning for social entrepreneurship.

We help students develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary to pursue entrepreneurial ventures with a social perspective — with a...

EPIIC is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program. Through its innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people to play active roles in their communities, whether at the local, national or global level.

Students are encouraged to conduct original, policy-oriented research and projects that allow them to test their theories and assumptions on the ground. Since 1986, more than 650 students have conducted research or participated in an international internship in more than 70 countries. These projects often develop into significant projects and senior honors theses. One project culminated in an informational DVD on the history of the S...

This program brings scholars and practitioners to campus for public lectures, classroom lectures and research and career advising. Recent participants have included Jack Blum, Senior Counsel for Special Projects for Finance Sector Compliance Advisers Limited and an expert on controlling government corruption, international financial crime, money laundering, international tax havens and drug trafficking; Peter Droege, the Asia-Pacifi...

Mission
IDI’s mission is to facilitate educational dialogue and exchange between Tufts University students and students at the School for International Relations (SIR) in Tehran. This is a non-polemical and non-political initiative. In 2004, IDI organized the first official U.S. university visit to Iran since the 1979 revolution, where ten Tufts students spent two weeks traveling through Iran and meeting with...

In a world with substantial partnership and commitment from the international community to eradicate global poverty, it appears antithetical that, in many countries, levels of poverty remain stagnant or are worsening. Therefore, PPRI is a policy-oriented student research initiative that investigates the hypothesis that poverty is often a product of distorted national governance structures where decision making powers are unequally di...