Ranked #1
Animal Behaviorist Temple Grandin on Autism and Understanding Animals
Animal Behaviorist Temple Grandin on Autism and Understanding Animals
Time magazine named Temple Grandin one of the world’s 100 most influential people for her work to improve the quality of... Read more
24 Jan 2019
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17mins
Ranked #2
Karl Rove and Election Strategies
Karl Rove and Election Strategies
How much credit should political advisor Karl Rove get for Donald Trump’s White House win? In 2016, Rove — the man who h... Read more
4 Dec 2019
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21mins
Ranked #3
Life is Good President Lisa Tanzer Shares Essential Advice
Life is Good President Lisa Tanzer Shares Essential Advice
Life is Good president and Tufts graduate Lisa Tanzer emphasizes the importance of knowing what you stand for when it co... Read more
9 Jan 2019
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15mins
Ranked #4
Bringing Puffins Back to Maine
Bringing Puffins Back to Maine
About 100 years ago, there were less than five puffins left in all of Maine. But now, thanks to the conservationists, th... Read more
26 Jun 2019
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27mins
Ranked #5
New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof on How We Treat Immigrants
New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof on How We Treat Immigrants
Nicholas Kristof is a journalist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and longtime columnist for the New York Times. He has ... Read more
29 May 2019
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27mins
Ranked #6
Who Votes, Who Doesn’t Vote, and Why? Professor Bernard Fraga on Why Minority Voting Turnout Matters
Who Votes, Who Doesn’t Vote, and Why? Professor Bernard Fraga on Why Minority Voting Turnout Matters
As America gets closer to the 2020 presidential election, everyone wants to know, “Who will run?” But there’s another im... Read more
20 Mar 2019
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25mins
Ranked #7
Beto O'Rourke on Cybersecurity, the Humanitarian Crisis at the U.S. Border and More
Beto O'Rourke on Cybersecurity, the Humanitarian Crisis at the U.S. Border and More
From 2013 to 2019, Beto O’Rourke represented the 16th Congressionaldistrict of Texas in the U.S. House of Representative... Read more
16 Oct 2019
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19mins
Ranked #8
Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld on Immigration and Impeachment
Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld on Immigration and Impeachment
Now a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, the former Massachusetts governor visited Tufts recently as... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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25mins
Ranked #9
Dr. John Rich on Fixing Institutional Racism in Health Care
Dr. John Rich on Fixing Institutional Racism in Health Care
Professor and author Dr. John Rich talks about applying a systems approach to tackling the consequences of trauma in the... Read more
26 Dec 2018
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14mins
Ranked #10
Can Artificial Intelligence Make Us Smarter?
Can Artificial Intelligence Make Us Smarter?
Artificial intelligence has the potential to enrich our lives. But it can also drive people apart and cause tremendous h... Read more
12 Jun 2019
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21mins
Ranked #11
Engineers Without Borders Leader Catherine Leslie on Engineering Positive Change
Engineers Without Borders Leader Catherine Leslie on Engineering Positive Change
Engineers Without Borders leader Catherine Leslie tells a Tufts podcast about the thousands of students and professional... Read more
21 Aug 2019
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24mins
Ranked #12
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Juan Manuel Santos on How he Fought the Odds to Create Peace
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Juan Manuel Santos on How he Fought the Odds to Create Peace
Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos tells a Tufts podcast how he fought the odds to create peace in his native C... Read more
7 Aug 2019
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23mins
Ranked #13
Dr. Ellen Ochoa on Her Career in Space, and How Mentoring Is Important in the STEM Disciplines
Dr. Ellen Ochoa on Her Career in Space, and How Mentoring Is Important in the STEM Disciplines
Space wasn’t always on Dr. Ellen Ochoa’s radar. So how did this high school flute player make her way to outer space? In... Read more
1 May 2019
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21mins
Ranked #14
Filmmaker Amy Adrion on the Challenges That Female Directors Still Face
Filmmaker Amy Adrion on the Challenges That Female Directors Still Face
Blockbusters like Patty Jenkins’ "Wonder Woman" show the power that female filmmakers can have in Hollywood today. But w... Read more
12 Dec 2018
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27mins
Ranked #15
Justice Sonia Sotomayor: 'If You Deal With People Out of Respect, You Can Disagree Agreeably'
Justice Sonia Sotomayor: 'If You Deal With People Out of Respect, You Can Disagree Agreeably'
Tufts students have a wide-ranging conversation with Justice Sotomayor as she addresses a crowd of almost 3,000 at the u... Read more
30 Oct 2019
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25mins
Ranked #16
Congressman Will Hurd on Crossing the Political Divide
Congressman Will Hurd on Crossing the Political Divide
Tufts undergraduate George Behrakis interviews Will Hurd, a Republican Texas Congressman leaving the House of Representa... Read more
2 Oct 2019
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26mins
Ranked #17
Former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul on Russian Election Interference and Vladimir Putin’s End Game
Former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul on Russian Election Interference and Vladimir Putin’s End Game
Michael McFaul, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014 under the Obama administration, shares in ... Read more
17 Apr 2019
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29mins
Ranked #18
Filmmaker David Sutherland's New Film Shows the Human Cost of U.S. Immigration Policy
Filmmaker David Sutherland's New Film Shows the Human Cost of U.S. Immigration Policy
Documentary filmmaker and 1967 Tufts graduate David Sutherland is known for creating intimate portraits of people living... Read more
3 Apr 2019
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22mins
Ranked #19
How Deke Sharon Became the ‘Father of Contemporary A Cappella'
How Deke Sharon Became the ‘Father of Contemporary A Cappella'
Deke Sharon, often called “the father of contemporary a cappella,” has made it his life’s work to bring vocals-only musi... Read more
15 May 2019
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30mins
Ranked #20
In Exhibit, Artist Lynda Cutrell Challenges What We Think We Know About Mental Illness
In Exhibit, Artist Lynda Cutrell Challenges What We Think We Know About Mental Illness
Artist Lynda Cutrell wants to change how people look at mental illness. In an exhibit on display at Tufts, she uses phot... Read more
20 Feb 2019
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22mins