Editing Tufts University (section)

===21st century===
[[Image:Sophia Gordon Hall - Tufts.jpg|thumb|Sophia Gordon Hall (2006) is Tufts' newest residence hall]]
Under President [[Larry Bacow]], Tufts started a capital campaign in 2006 with the goal of raising $1.2 billion to implement full [[need-blind admission]] by 2011.<ref>[http://chronicle.com/news/article/1234/tufts-u-joins-growing-number-of-colleges-seeking-to-raise-more-than-1-billion Tufts U. Joins Growing Number of Colleges Seeking to Raise More Than $1-Billion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416111955/http://chronicle.com/news/article/1234/tufts-u-joins-growing-number-of-colleges-seeking-to-raise-more-than-1-billion |date=April 16, 2008 }} ''Chronicle of Higher Education''.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://giving.tufts.edu/campaign/index.html|title=Giving to Tufts – About the Campaign|access-date=August 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624031254/http://giving.tufts.edu/campaign/index.html|archive-date=June 24, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{As of|2010|12|10|df=US}} the campaign raised $1.14 billion.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tuftsdaily.com/beyond-boundaries-is-close-to-attaining-1-2-billion-goal-1.2426734 |title=Tufts Daily – Beyond Boundaries is close to attaining $1.2 billion goal<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=December 13, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231225831/http://www.tuftsdaily.com/beyond-boundaries-is-close-to-attaining-1-2-billion-goal-1.2426734 |archive-date=December 31, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Tufts received the largest donations in its history since 2005, including a $136 million bequest to its endowment upon the dissolution of a charitable trust set up by 1911 alumnus Frank C. Doble,<ref>Russonello, Giovanni. "[http://media.www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2008/04/09/News/Tufts.Receives.Largest.Gift.In.University.History-3312427.shtml Tufts receives largest gift in university history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412161329/http://media.www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2008/04/09/News/Tufts.Receives.Largest.Gift.In.University.History-3312427.shtml |date=April 12, 2008 }}." ''The Tufts Daily'', April 9, 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522948|title=Tufts, Lesley Receive Big Gift|access-date=August 3, 2015}}</ref> a $100 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=100000000|start_year=2008}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) gift from [[eBay]] founder [[Pierre Omidyar]] to establish the [[Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund]],<ref>Hopkins, Jim. "[https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-11-03-social-entrepreneurship_x.htm Ebay founder takes lead in social entrepreneurship] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901150212/http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-11-03-social-entrepreneurship_x.htm |date=September 1, 2012 }}." ''[[USA Today]]'', November 3, 2005.</ref> and a number of $40 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=40000000|start_year=2005}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}})-plus gifts to specific schools.<ref>[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/05/12/tisch_announces_40_million_gift_to_tufts_university/ Tisch announces $40 million gift to Tufts University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311102836/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/05/12/tisch_announces_40_million_gift_to_tufts_university/ |date=March 11, 2007 }}. ''[[The Boston Globe]]''. May 12, 2006.</ref><ref>E-mail sent from President Bacow to campus students, faculty and staff on September 4, 2007 at 1:18 pm ET.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tuftsdaily.com/tufts-receives-40-million-gift-1.1872834 |title=Tufts Daily – Tufts receives $40 million gift |access-date=October 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609225746/http://www.tuftsdaily.com/tufts-receives-40-million-gift-1.1872834 |archive-date=June 9, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Anthony P. Monaco]], formerly of Oxford University, became Tufts' thirteenth president<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/30/noted_geneticist_to_lead_tufts/|date=November 30, 2010|access-date=December 4, 2010|newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|title=Noted geneticists to lead Tufts|author=Peter Schworm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113095600/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/30/noted_geneticist_to_lead_tufts/|archive-date=January 13, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> on October 21, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://president.tufts.edu/inauguration2011/ |title=Inauguration – Office of the President |publisher=President.tufts.edu |date=October 21, 2011 |access-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823181840/http://president.tufts.edu/inauguration2011/ |archive-date=August 23, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

As of October 15, 2015, Computer Science surpassed International Relations as the largest major at the university, with 466 declared majors.<ref>{{cite web|title = Computer science surpasses IR as most popular major – The Tufts Daily|url = http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2015/10/01/computer-science-surpasses-ir-popular-major/|website = The Tufts Daily|access-date = November 23, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151124140746/http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2015/10/01/computer-science-surpasses-ir-popular-major/|archive-date = November 24, 2015|url-status = dead}}</ref>

On December 22, 2015, the university announced that it would acquire the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The merger was completed on June 30, 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/school-museum-fine-arts-boston-become-part-tufts-university-2016 |title=School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to Become a Part of Tufts University in 2016 |work=Tufts Now |access-date=March 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318034253/https://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/school-museum-fine-arts-boston-become-part-tufts-university-2016 |archive-date=March 18, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> One of the key figures in the merger, [[Nancy Bauer (philosopher)|Nancy Bauer]], became the dean of the museum school.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://now.tufts.edu/articles/nancy-bauer-named-dean-museum-school | title= Nancy Bauer Named Dean of Museum School | work= Tufts Now | year= 2016 | access-date= May 28, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160527014315/https://now.tufts.edu/articles/nancy-bauer-named-dean-museum-school | archive-date= May 27, 2016 | url-status= dead }}</ref>

In December 2015, the university completed a reconstruction of the Memorial Stairs. A new Central Energy Plant was under construction and set to finish in the summer of 2016. It will replace an aging 60-year-old plant and provide new efficiency boilers which in addition to providing the university directly with electricity, heated and chilled water, will help the university cut emissions.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sites.tufts.edu/construction/central-energy-plant/ | title=Central Energy Plant | work=Tufts University | access-date=March 23, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311204828/https://sites.tufts.edu/construction/central-energy-plant/ | archive-date=March 11, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The university also completed construction of the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in 2017. The SEC features laboratories and fosters interdisciplinary research between the neuroscience and environmental science departments. The SEC joins the newly rehabilitated 574 Boston Avenue in the expansion of classroom and laboratory facilities for the engineering school.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sites.tufts.edu/construction/science-engineering-complex/ | title=Science & Engineering Complex | work=Tufts University | access-date=March 23, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401122038/http://sites.tufts.edu/construction/science-engineering-complex/ | archive-date=April 1, 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In the spring of 2022, the university plans to open the newly constructed Joyce Cummings Center, an interdisciplinary academic building which will house the computer science and economics departments, among others.<ref>{{cite web|title=Joyce Cummings Center|url=https://provost.tufts.edu/joyce-cummings-center/|access-date=2021-08-15|website=Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President|language=en|archive-date=August 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815064633/https://provost.tufts.edu/joyce-cummings-center/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2016, Microsoft co-founder [[Paul Allen]] pledged a $10 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=10000000|start_year=2016}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) donation over four years for the creation of the [[Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group|Allen Discovery Centers]] at Tufts and [[Stanford University|Stanford]]. The centers would fund research that would read and write the morphogenetic code. Tufts biologist Michael Levin will lead the center with research focusing on communications between cells and the causation of birth defects, cancer, traumatic injuries and degenerative diseases.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/frontiers-group/news-press/press-resources/press-releases/paul-g-allen-frontiers-group-announces-allen-discovery-center-tufts-university|title = The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Announces Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, 1922–2012|date = March 22, 2016|access-date = August 10, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160823020449/https://www.alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/frontiers-group/news-press/press-resources/press-releases/paul-g-allen-frontiers-group-announces-allen-discovery-center-tufts-university|archive-date = August 23, 2016|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/03/23/philanthropist-paul-allen-announces-100-million-gift-to-expand-frontiers-of-bioscience/|title = Philanthropist Paul Allen announces $100 million gift to expand 'frontiers of bioscience'|newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]|access-date = August 10, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160805031417/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/03/23/philanthropist-paul-allen-announces-100-million-gift-to-expand-frontiers-of-bioscience/|archive-date = August 5, 2016|url-status = live}}</ref>

In 2020, Tufts announced that it would pay the [[Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority|MBTA]] $2 million (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=2000000|start_year=2020}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) over 10 years to rename the adjacent [[Green Line Extension]] station from "College Avenue" to "{{bts|Medford/Tufts}}."<ref>{{cite web|title=Tufts is paying $2 million to name a Green Line Extension station|url=https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/01/03/green-line-extension-medford-tufts-station|access-date=2021-08-16|website=www.boston.com|language=en-US}}</ref> The Medford Branch opened to Medford/Tufts on December 12, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|title = Final stretch of Green Line Extension will open Dec. 12|url = https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/11/17/green-line-extension-medford-branch-opening-december-mbta|date = November 17, 2022|access-date = November 24, 2022}}</ref>

After twelve years as president, [[Anthony Monaco]] retired in 2023. [[Sunil Kumar (academic administrator)|Sunil Kumar]], previously the [[Provost (education)|provost]] of [[Johns Hopkins University]], became the university's 14th president on July 1, 2023.<ref>{{cite web|title = Sunil Kumar Appointed Tufts University's Next President|url = https://now.tufts.edu/2022/11/17/sunil-kumar-appointed-tufts-universitys-next-president|date = November 17, 2022|access-date = November 24, 2022}}</ref>

On April 7, 2024, Tufts students joined [[List of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024|other campuses across the United States]] in protests and setting up encampments in protest against the [[Gaza war]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kool |first=Daniel |date=2024-04-23 |title=Emerson, MIT, Tufts students camp out in solidarity with Columbia pro-Palestinian protest |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/emerson-mit-tufts-students-camp-out-in-solidarity-with-columbia-pro-palestinian-protest/ar-AA1nsm26 |access-date=2024-09-14 |work=The Boston Globe/MSN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-04-26 |title=Major Gaza protests at US universities |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68901927 |access-date=2024-09-14 |language=en-GB}}</ref>  The protestors demands included disclosure of University investments and [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|divestment from Israel]].<ref>{{Cite web |title='Divest from Israel': Decoding the Gaza protest call shaking US campuses |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/divest-from-israel-breaking-down-the-us-student-protesters-demands |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref> The encampment ended after a month with Tufts [[Students for Justice in Palestine]] rejecting what it called "a bad-faith deal" offered by the administration.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BREAKING: 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' ends without deal with university |url=https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/05/breaking-gaza-solidarity-encampment-ends-resolution-unknown |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=The Tufts Daily |language=en}}</ref> More than 250 members of the graduating class threatened to boycott commencement and called for an end to "Tuft University’s financial complicity in the ongoing devastation of Gaza".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-01 |title=Hundreds of Tufts University students threaten to boycott commencement amid pro-Palestinian protests |url=https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/hundreds-tufts-university-students-threaten-boycott-commencement-amid-pro-palestinian-protests/2WQMPDAL4JD3BELR5ZWPUOWEWM/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509121411/https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/hundreds-tufts-university-students-threaten-boycott-commencement-amid-pro-palestinian-protests/2WQMPDAL4JD3BELR5ZWPUOWEWM/ |archive-date=2024-05-09 |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=Boston 25 News |language=en}}</ref>