Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, with further facilities in Boston and Grafton and a campus in Talloires, France.塔夫茨大学是一所私立研究型大学，位于马萨诸塞州的梅德福德与萨默维尔，另在波士顿与格拉夫顿设有设施，并在法国塔卢瓦尔拥有一处校区。

It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning, and its legal corporate name remains the Trustees of Tufts College.该校由基督教普救派信徒于 1852 年创办，初名塔夫茨学院，旨在提供一所不分教派的高等学府，其法定法人名称至今仍为塔夫茨学院董事会（Trustees of Tufts College）。

Tufts enrolls over 13,000 students in ten schools across more than 90 undergraduate and 160 graduate programmes, is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, and is a member of the Association of American Universities.塔夫茨大学在十所学院中招收逾 13,000 名学生，提供 90 多个本科与 160 个研究生项目，被归类为研究活动极强的 R1 类博士型大学，也是美国大学协会成员。

History

• In the 1840s the Universalist Church sought to open a college in New England, and in 1852 Charles Tufts donated 20 acres on Walnut Hill, a barren hill that was one of the highest points in the Boston area.19 世纪 40 年代，普救派教会计划在新英格兰开办一所学院，1852 年查尔斯·塔夫茨捐出胡桃山上 20 英亩土地，那是一片荒芜的坡地，也是波士顿地区最高的地点之一。

• When asked what he intended to do with the land, Charles Tufts replied that he would put a light on it, and his donation, then valued at $20,000, still forms the heart of the modern campus.当被问及打算如何处置这片土地时，查尔斯·塔夫茨答道他要在这上面放一盏灯，这笔当时估值为 20,000 美元的捐赠至今仍构成校园的核心。

• In 1852 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts chartered Tufts College, directing that it promote virtue and piety and learning in the languages and the liberal and useful arts.1852 年马萨诸塞州为塔夫茨学院颁发特许状，规定其应促进美德、虔敬与学问，涵盖各种语言以及自由与实用技艺。

• Hosea Ballou II, one of the strongest influences behind the founding, became the first president in 1853, and College Hall, the first building on campus, was completed the following year.作为建校背后最具影响力的人物之一，霍齐亚·巴卢二世于 1853 年出任首任校长，校园内的首座建筑学院楼于次年落成。

• The campus opened in August 1854, and the methods of instruction that Ballou introduced were based on the tutorials conducted at the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh.校园于 1854 年 8 月启用，巴卢引入的教学方法以牛津大学与爱丁堡大学所采用的导师制课业为基础。

• President Ballou died in 1861 and was succeeded by Alonzo Ames Miner, whose presidency saw the establishment of preparatory schools including Goddard Seminary, Westbrook Seminary and Dean Academy.巴卢校长于 1861 年去世，由阿隆佐·艾姆斯·迈纳继任，在其任内设立了多所预备学校，包括戈达德神学院、韦斯特布鲁克神学院与迪恩学院。

• During the Civil War the college actively supported the Union cause, the mansion of Major George L. Stearns on part of the campus served as a station on the Underground Railroad, and 63 graduates served in the Union army.南北战争期间，学院积极支持联邦一方，坐落在校园一角的乔治·L·斯特恩斯少校宅邸曾是地下铁路的一处站点，共有 63 名毕业生在联邦军队服役。

• In 1865 the college established the first course of a three-year programme leading to a degree in civil engineering, in the same year that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded, and by 1869 the Crane Theological School was organised.1865 年，学院开设了通向土木工程学位的三年制课程的第一课，同年麻省理工学院创立；到 1869 年，克兰神学院组建完成。

• Elmer Capen, the first president to be a Tufts alumnus, led the college when Amos Dolbear, chair of physics, installed in 1875 a working telephone linking his laboratory in Ballou Hall to his home.埃尔默·卡彭是首位出身塔夫茨校友的校长，在他任内，物理学讲座教授阿莫斯·多尔贝尔于 1875 年装设了一部可用的电话，把巴卢楼的实验室与其住所连通。

• P. T. Barnum was among the earliest benefactors, and in 1884 the Barnum Museum of Natural History was built with his funds to house his animal specimens and the stuffed hide of Jumbo the elephant, the university's mascot, until a fire destroyed the building on 14 April 1975.巴纳姆是最早的捐助人之一，1884 年塔夫茨以其出资建成巴纳姆自然历史博物馆，用以存放他的动物标本以及大学吉祥物大象金博（Jumbo）的填充皮张，直到 1975 年 4 月 14 日一场大火焚毁了该建筑。

• On 15 July 1892 the trustees voted that the college be opened to women in the undergraduate departments on the same terms as men, and in 1893 Metcalf Hall opened as a dormitory for women.1892 年 7 月 15 日，董事会决议向女性开放本科各部，条件与男性相同；1893 年梅特卡夫楼作为女生宿舍启用。

• In the same period the trustees created a graduate faculty and offered the PhD in biology and chemistry, the Medical School opened in 1893, and the Boston Dental College was integrated into the university in 1899.同一时期，董事会设立研究生师资并开设生物学与化学博士学位项目，医学院于 1893 年开办，波士顿牙科学院则于 1899 年并入该校。

• The Department of Electrical Engineering was created in 1890, the Departments of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering followed in 1894 and 1898, and in 1898 the trustees formally established an undergraduate College of Engineering.电气工程系于 1890 年设立，机械工程系与化学工程系分别于 1894 年与 1898 年设立，1898 年董事会正式成立本科层次的工学院。

• The Jackson College for Women was established in 1910 as a coordinate college, shared courses and faculty with the College of Liberal Arts, and was integrated in 1980, though women continued to receive its diplomas until 2002.杰克逊女子学院于 1910 年作为平行学院成立，与文理学院共享课程与师资，并于 1980 年并入，但女生领取其文凭一直延续到 2002 年。

• Tufts expanded in 1933 with the opening of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the first graduate school of international affairs in the United States, funded by an endowment from the alumnus Austin Barclay Fletcher, and Tufts assumed full administration of it in 1935.1933 年，塔夫茨因弗莱彻法律与外交学院的开设而扩展，它是美国第一所国际事务研究生院，由校友奥斯汀·巴克利·弗莱彻的捐赠基金资助，1935 年塔夫茨全面接管该学院。

• During the Second World War Tufts College was one of 131 institutions nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Programme, which offered students a route to a Navy commission.第二次世界大战期间，塔夫茨学院是全国参与 V-12 海军大学训练计划的 131 所院校之一，该计划为学生提供了一条获得海军军官委任的途径。

• Because of wartime travel restrictions the Boston Red Sox held spring training for the 1943 season at Tufts College, and in 1945 the college formed an affiliation with the Boston School of Occupational Therapy, which was merged into Tufts in 1960.由于战时旅行限制，波士顿红袜队把 1943 赛季的春训安排在塔夫茨学院进行；1945 年学院与波士顿职业治疗学校建立合作关系，该校于 1960 年并入塔夫茨。

• In 1955 the institution changed its name to Tufts University, although its corporate name remained the Trustees of Tufts College.1955 年，该校更名为塔夫茨大学，但其法人名称仍为塔夫茨学院董事会。

• During the presidency of Jean Mayer, from 1976 to 1992, Tufts established its veterinary, nutrition and biomedical schools, acquired the Grafton and Talloires campuses, and raised its endowment fifteenfold.在让·迈耶 1976 年至 1992 年的校长任内，塔夫茨设立了兽医学、营养学与生物医学各学院，购得格拉夫顿与塔卢瓦尔两处校区，并把捐赠基金规模提高了十五倍。

• The School of Engineering added graduate study in 1961 and doctorates in mechanical engineering in 1963, electrical engineering in 1964, engineering design in 1981 and civil engineering in 1985, and in 1984 Bernard Marshall Gordon founded the Tufts Gordon Institute for entrepreneurship.工学院于 1961 年增设研究生教育，并先后于 1963 年、1964 年、1981 年与 1985 年设立机械工程、电气工程、工程设计以及土木工程的博士项目；1984 年伯纳德·马歇尔·戈登创办了以培养创业精神为宗旨的塔夫茨戈登学院。

• In 2006 Tufts began a capital campaign with the goal of raising 1.2 billion to implement full need-blind admission by 2011, and by December 2010 it had raised1.14 billion, including a $136 million bequest from the estate of the 1911 alumnus Frank C. Doble.2006 年塔夫茨启动筹款运动，目标是在 2011 年前募集 12 亿美元以实现完全的需求回避录取，到 2010 年 12 月已筹得 11.4 亿美元，其中包括 1911 届校友弗兰克·C·多布尔遗产捐赠的 1.36 亿美元。

• Anthony P. Monaco, formerly of Oxford, became the thirteenth president on 21 October 2011, and by 15 October 2015 computer science had overtaken international relations as the largest major, with 466 declared majors.曾任教于牛津的安东尼·P·摩纳哥于 2011 年 10 月 21 日就任第十三任校长；到 2015 年 10 月 15 日，计算机科学以 466 名申报主修生超过国际关系，成为校内最大的主修专业。

• On 22 December 2015 the university announced the acquisition of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, a merger completed on 30 June 2016, and in 2016 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pledged $10 million over four years to create an Allen Discovery Center at Tufts.2015 年 12 月 22 日，校方宣布收购美术博物馆学院，合并于 2016 年 6 月 30 日完成；2016 年微软联合创始人保罗·艾伦承诺四年捐赠 1,000 万美元，在塔夫茨设立艾伦探索中心。

• Tufts launched University College in 2018, agreed in 2020 to pay the MBTA $2 million over ten years to rename the adjacent transit station Medford/Tufts, and after twelve years Anthony Monaco retired in 2023, being succeeded on 1 July 2023 by Sunil Kumar as fourteenth president.塔夫茨于 2018 年创办大学学院；2020 年同意在十年间向马萨诸塞湾交通局支付 200 万美元，将邻近车站更名为梅德福德/塔夫茨站；在任十二年后，安东尼·摩纳哥于 2023 年退休，苏尼尔·库马尔于 2023 年 7 月 1 日就任第十四任校长。

Academics

• Tufts is organised into ten schools, and its largest, the School of Arts and Sciences, includes both the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.塔夫茨大学设十所学院，其中规模最大的文理学院下辖文理研究生院，以及与波士顿美术博物馆有联系的美术博物馆学院。

• The School of Engineering offers an entrepreneurial focus through the Gordon Institute, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the oldest graduate school of international relations in the United States.工学院经由戈登学院提供创业导向的教育，而弗莱彻法律与外交学院则是美国最古老的国际关系研究生院。

• The university's Boston Health Science campus houses the School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, next to Tufts Medical Center, a 451-bed academic medical institution.该校的波士顿健康科学校区设有医学院、牙医学院、弗里德曼营养科学与政策学院以及生物医学研究生院，紧邻拥有 451 张床位的学术医疗机构塔夫茨医学中心。

• The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine occupies a 634-acre campus in Grafton, west of Boston, and maintains a clinic in Woodstock, Connecticut and a laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.卡明斯兽医学院位于波士顿以西的格拉夫顿，占地 634 英亩，并在康涅狄格州伍德斯托克设有一家诊所，在伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室设有一间实验室。

• The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service was founded in 2000 with a 10 million gift from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and renamed in 2006 after a40 million gift from Jonathan Tisch.乔纳森·M·蒂施公民与公共服务学院于 2000 年以易趣创始人皮埃尔·奥米迪亚捐赠的 1,000 万美元创立，2006 年因乔纳森·蒂施捐赠 4,000 万美元而更名。

• The Experimental College has offered student-designed interdisciplinary courses since 1964, and the university runs joint undergraduate programmes with the New England Conservatory, the College of Europe and Sciences Po Paris.实验学院自 1964 年以来开设由学生设计的跨学科课程，该校还与新英格兰音乐学院、欧洲学院以及巴黎政治学院合办本科联合项目。

• The Fletcher School operates dual-degree programmes with Harvard Law School, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and the UC Berkeley School of Law, while cross-registration links Tufts with Harvard and MIT.弗莱彻学院与哈佛法学院、达特茅斯学院塔克商学院以及加州大学伯克利分校法学院合办双学位项目，其跨校选课机制则把塔夫茨与哈佛、麻省理工连接起来。

• Aside from a campus in France, the university offers study-abroad programmes of four decades' standing with partners such as Pembroke College of the University of Oxford, University College London and the University of Hong Kong, and more than 500 undergraduates study abroad each year.除法国校区外，该校还提供延续逾四十年的海外学习项目，伙伴包括牛津大学彭布罗克学院、伦敦大学学院与香港大学，每年有 500 多名本科生赴海外学习。

• The Tufts University Library System holds over three million volumes, headed by the Tisch Library with about 2.7 million volumes, alongside the Hirsh Health Sciences Library, the Edwin Ginn Library at the Fletcher School and the Webster Family Library.塔夫茨大学图书馆系统藏书超过 300 万册，以藏书约 270 万册的蒂施图书馆为首，另设赫什健康科学图书馆、弗莱彻学院的埃德温·金图书馆以及韦伯斯特家族图书馆。

• The university holds a permanent art collection of 2,000 works ranging from ancient Mediterranean and pre-Hispanic cultures to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, with works by John Singer Sargent, Albrecht Dürer, Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso.该校拥有 2,000 件作品的永久艺术收藏，从古代地中海与西班牙征服前文化一直延伸到近现代绘画、雕塑与摄影，其中有约翰·辛格·萨金特、阿尔布雷希特·丢勒、奥古斯特·罗丹、安迪·沃霍尔与巴勃罗·毕加索的作品。

• Tufts runs the Perseus Project, a digital library that assembles collections of humanities resources, and students have access to the libraries of institutions in the Boston Consortium and the SHARES network.塔夫茨运营珀尔修斯计划，这是一个汇编人文学科资源的数字图书馆；学生还可使用波士顿联盟成员院校以及 SHARES 网络各成员馆的藏书。

• For the class of 2029 Tufts admitted 10.5 per cent of 33,400 applicants, setting the places in the freshman class at about 1,600, and the middle half of the class of 2024 scored between 1420 and 1550 on the SAT.对于 2029 届，塔夫茨在 33,400 名申请者中录取了 10.5%，新生名额约为 1,600 人，而 2024 届中间半数学生的 SAT 成绩介于 1420 至 1550 之间。

• In the 2026 U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges ranking Tufts is placed 31st in the nation, and Forbes ranked its undergraduate school 36th among private colleges in the 2024-25 America's Top Colleges list.在 2026 年《美国新闻与世界报道》最佳大学排名中，塔夫茨位列全美第 31；在《福布斯》2024 至 2025 年度美国顶尖大学榜单中，其本科教育在私立院校中排名第 36。

• The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education and joined the Association of American Universities, by which it is recognised as a leading research institution.该校经新英格兰高等教育委员会认证，并加入美国大学协会，由此被认定为领先的研究型学府。

• According to the university its official maturation has produced three Nobel Prize laureates and twelve Pulitzer Prize winners among alumni, faculty and affiliates.据校方统计，在其校友、教师与附属人员中已走出三位诺贝尔奖得主与十二位普利策奖得主。

Campus

• The main campus sits on Walnut Hill in Medford and Somerville about five miles from Boston, on the site of the original farm of Charles Tufts, and houses the undergraduate programmes in arts and sciences and engineering as well as the Fletcher School.主校区坐落于梅德福德与萨默维尔的胡桃山，距波士顿约五英里，地处查尔斯·塔夫茨原有农场之上，容纳文理与工程本科项目以及弗莱彻学院。

• The Somerville boundary crosses the campus, giving rise to the terms Uphill and Downhill, and the Uphill quad is enclosed by a wrought-iron fence on which classes that contributed to its building are commemorated.萨默维尔的边界横穿校园，由此产生“山上”与“山下”之分；山上的方庭为一圈锻铁围栏环绕，围栏上纪念着出资修建它的各届班级。

• One of the earliest buildings, Ballou Hall, was built from 1852 to 1854 in the Italianate style by the Boston architect Gridley James Fox Bryant and was restored by McKim, Mead and White in 1955 and 1956, and it now houses the offices of the president and the provost.最早的建筑之一巴卢楼由波士顿建筑师格利德利·詹姆斯·福克斯·布赖恩特以意大利风格于 1852 年至 1854 年建造，并由麦金、米德与怀特事务所于 1955 至 1956 年修复，如今是校长与教务长办公室所在地。

• Other named buildings on the hill include Packard Hall of 1856, East Hall of 1860, West Hall of 1871, Goddard Chapel of 1882, Goddard Hall of 1883, Barnum Hall of 1884, Eaton Hall of 1908 and Carmichael Hall of 1954.山上其他具名建筑包括 1856 年的帕卡德楼、1860 年的东楼、1871 年的西楼、1882 年的戈达德礼拜堂、1883 年的戈达德楼、1884 年的巴纳姆楼、1908 年的伊顿楼以及 1954 年的卡迈克尔楼。

• The memorial stairs, designed by the Olmsted Brothers in the 1920s, form one of the main entrances to the university and give direct access from the academic quad to the engineering school downhill.纪念台阶由奥姆斯特德兄弟事务所于 20 世纪 20 年代设计，是大学的主要入口之一，从学术方庭可直通山下的工学院。

• The Boston Health Science campus stands in the Chinatown neighbourhood beside Tufts Medical Center, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts occupies a campus in the Fenway neighbourhood next to the Museum of Fine Arts.波士顿健康科学校区位于唐人街街区，紧邻塔夫茨医学中心；美术博物馆学院则坐落于芬威街区，与美术博物馆相邻。

• The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine occupies a 634-acre campus in Grafton west of Boston, and Tufts also keeps the Ambulatory Farm Clinic in Connecticut and a laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole.卡明斯兽医学院位于波士顿以西的格拉夫顿，占地 634 英亩；塔夫茨另在康涅狄格州设有门诊农场诊所，并在伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室设有一间实验室。

• Tufts maintains a satellite campus in Talloires, France at the Tufts European Center, a former Benedictine priory built in the eleventh century that was purchased in 1958 by Donald MacJannet and his wife and given to Tufts in 1978.塔夫茨在法国塔卢瓦尔设有卫星校区，即塔夫茨欧洲中心，其前身是建于十一世纪的本笃会修道院，1958 年由唐纳德·麦克贾内特夫妇购得，并于 1978 年捐予塔夫茨。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Tufts University is placed 338th, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands at joint 209th.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，塔夫茨大学位列第 338；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，它并列第 209。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking the university is placed 275th, and it falls in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 275；在上海软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 201 至 300 区间。

• In its 2026 edition of America's Best Colleges U.S. News and World Report ranks Tufts 31st among national universities, and Forbes placed its undergraduate school 36th among private colleges in 2024-25.在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 年版美国最佳大学排行中，塔夫茨在全美综合性大学中位列第 31；《福布斯》则将其本科教育列为 2024 至 2025 年度私立院校第 36 名。

• Tufts was named by Newsweek as one of the 25 New Ivies in 2006, and is often grouped with the small Ivy institutions of the American northeast.《新闻周刊》于 2006 年将塔夫茨列入“25 所新常春藤”之一，它常被视为美国东北部小型常春藤院校的一员。

• According to the October 2010 rankings of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tufts ranked 12th in the country, tied with Harvard and Johns Hopkins, for the number of Fulbright scholars it produced.据《高等教育纪事报》2010 年 10 月的排名，塔夫茨产生的富布赖特学者数量在全美并列第 12，与哈佛、约翰斯·霍普金斯并列。

• In The Princeton Review's 2010-2011 Best 363 Colleges, Tufts ranked 14th for the happiest students and its study-abroad programme was ranked third in the country.在《普林斯顿评论》2010 至 2011 年度“最佳 363 所大学”中，塔夫茨在“最快乐的学生”一项排名第 14，其海外学习项目则位列全美第三。

• Among its honours, the university counts 3 Nobel Prize laureates, 12 Pulitzer Prize winners, 5 state governors, 2 U.S. Senators, 4 Emmy Award winners, 1 Grammy Award winner and 3 Academy Award winners.在其荣誉名录中，该校计有 3 位诺贝尔奖得主、12 位普利策奖得主、5 位州长、2 位美国参议员、4 位艾美奖得主、1 位格莱美奖得主与 3 位奥斯卡奖得主。

• Tufts has graduated 4 Rhodes Scholars, 5 Marshall Scholars, 5 Truman Scholars and 5 Goldwater Scholars, and ranks fourth among medium-sized schools for the number of Teach for America volunteers it produces.塔夫茨培养出 4 位罗德学者、5 位马歇尔学者、5 位杜鲁门学者与 5 位戈德华特学者，在培养“为美国而教”志愿者的人数上于中等规模院校中位列第四。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 121,184 research works attracting 14,518,238 citations, placing it among the leading private research universities of its size.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 121,184 项研究成果，累计被引用 14,518,238 次，在同等规模的私立研究型大学中位居前列。

Student life

• Tufts has three forms of student government, the Tufts Community Union Senate, the Tufts Community Union Judiciary and the Committee on Student Life, the Senate being chaired by the student body president.塔夫茨设有三种形式的学生自治机构，即塔夫茨社群联盟参议院、塔夫茨社群联盟司法委员会与学生生活委员会，参议院由学生会主席主持。

• The Tufts Daily is the daily student newspaper, the Tufts Observer, established in 1895, is the oldest publication on campus, and the university also publishes the alumni magazine Tufts Magazine.《塔夫茨日报》是学生日报，创刊于 1895 年的《塔夫茨观察家》则是校内历史最久的刊物，学校另出版校友杂志《塔夫茨杂志》。

• Tufts operates the television station TUTV, which went on air in April 1977 from Curtis Hall with 40 student volunteers, and the radio station WMFO, which first aired in 1970 and streams on 91.5 FM.塔夫茨运营电视台 TUTV，它于 1977 年 4 月在柯蒂斯楼开播，由 40 名学生志愿者运作；另运营广播电台 WMFO，该台于 1970 年首次播出，以 91.5 FM 提供流媒体广播。

• The Zamboni is a student-run humour publication founded in 1989 and released twice a semester, supported by the student activities fee and describing itself as the campus's only intentionally funny magazine.《赞博尼》是一份由学生创办的幽默刊物，始创于 1989 年，每学期出版两期，由学生活动费资助，自称是校园里唯一有意逗人发笑的杂志。

• About eighteen per cent of the student body takes part in Greek life, and the campus has four fraternities, four sororities, one co-ed independent fraternity and four multicultural organisations.约百分之十八的学生参与希腊式社团生活，校园内设有四个兄弟会、四个姐妹会、一个男女同校的独立兄弟会以及四个多元文化组织。

• Tufts competes in the New England Small College Athletic Conference within NCAA Division III, and its mascot is Jumbo, one of only two college mascots to appear in Webster's Dictionary.塔夫茨参加 NCAA 三级联赛的新英格兰小型学院体育联盟，其吉祥物是金博（Jumbo），它是仅有的两个被收入韦氏词典的大学吉祥物之一。

• In 2022 Tufts won the Learfield Directors' Cup, its women's softball team won three consecutive NCAA Division III national championships in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and its men's soccer team took the title in 2014 and again in 2016.2022 年塔夫茨夺得利菲尔德董事杯，其女子垒球队于 2013 年、2014 年与 2015 年连续三次赢得 NCAA 三级联赛全国冠军，男子足球队则于 2014 年与 2016 年两度夺冠。

• Tuftonia's Day, the university fight song, was written in 1912 by Elliot W. Hayes and is performed at football games, and the a cappella group the Beelzebubs has appeared on NBC's The Sing-Off and on Glee.校歌《塔夫茨尼亚节》由埃利奥特·W·海斯于 1912 年创作，在橄榄球赛上演唱；无伴奏合唱团“别西卜”曾登上有线电视网 NBC 的《清唱团》节目，并参与电视剧《欢乐合唱团》的演出。

Notable people

• Founding-era figures include Charles Tufts, who donated the hilltop land that became the campus, and Hosea Ballou II, the religious leader and educator who became the first president in 1853.创校时期的人物包括捐出后来成为校园的山顶土地的查尔斯·塔夫茨，以及在 1853 年出任首任校长的宗教领袖与教育家霍齐亚·巴卢二世。

• Alonzo Ames Miner, the second president, guided the college through the Civil War era, and the showman P. T. Barnum was among its earliest and most conspicuous benefactors.第二任校长阿隆佐·艾姆斯·迈纳带领学院度过内战时期，而演艺经纪人巴纳姆则是其最早也最引人注目的捐助人之一。

• Early academics include Amos Dolbear, who installed one of the first working telephones, Stephen M. Babcock, who developed the standard test for butterfat in milk, Arthur Michael, an early American organic chemist, and John Sterling Kingsley, a pioneer of comparative anatomy.早期学者包括装设首批可用电话之一的阿莫斯·多尔贝尔、发明牛乳含脂率标准检测法的斯蒂芬·M·巴布科克、美国早期有机化学家阿瑟·迈克尔，以及比较解剖学先驱约翰·斯特林·金斯利。

• Business leaders among its graduates include eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon, former chief executive of Pfizer Jeff Kindler, chief executive of DuPont Ellen J. Kullman and chief executive of Loews Hotels Jonathan Tisch.其毕业生中的商界领袖包括易趣创始人皮埃尔·奥米迪亚、摩根大通首席执行官杰米·戴蒙、辉瑞前首席执行官杰夫·金德勒、杜邦首席执行官艾伦·J·库尔曼以及洛伊斯酒店集团首席执行官乔纳森·蒂施。

• In public service, alumni include Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Mulatu Teshome, president of Ethiopia from 2013 to 2018, and Kostas Karamanlis, former prime minister of Greece.在公共事务领域，其校友包括北约前最高盟军指挥官、海军上将詹姆斯·斯塔夫里迪斯，2013 年至 2018 年任埃塞俄比亚总统的穆拉图·特肖梅，以及希腊前总理科斯塔斯·卡拉曼利斯。

• Other alumni in government include Shashi Tharoor, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Indian member of parliament, Peter DeFazio, a Democratic U.S. Representative from Oregon, and Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL and U.S. Representative from Texas.其他从政校友包括曾任联合国副秘书长的印度国会议员沙希·塔鲁尔、来自俄勒冈州的民主党联邦众议员彼得·德法齐奥，以及前海军海豹突击队员、得克萨斯州联邦众议员丹·克伦肖。

• Among alumni in media are David Faber of CNBC, Meredith Vieira, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, and Peter Roth, former chief executive of Warner Bros. Television.媒体领域的校友包括有线电视网 CNBC 的大卫·费伯、梅雷迪思·维埃拉、《纽约时报》发行人小阿瑟·奥克斯·苏兹贝格，以及华纳兄弟电视公司前首席执行官彼得·罗思。

• Alumni in the arts include the singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, the Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt, the actor and voice artist Hank Azaria, and the novelist Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked.艺术领域的校友包括创作歌手特蕾西·查普曼、奥斯卡获奖演员威廉·赫特、演员兼配音艺术家汉克·阿扎里亚，以及小说《女巫前传》的作者格雷戈里·马圭尔。

• Nobel laureates associated with the university as faculty include Allan M. Cormack, Paul Samuelson, Wassily Leontief, Mohamed ElBaradei and Rainer Weiss, alongside the philosophers Daniel Dennett and Robert Sternberg.以教师身份与该校相关的诺贝尔奖得主包括阿伦·M·科马克、保罗·萨缪尔森、瓦西里·列昂惕夫、穆罕默德·巴拉迪与雷纳·韦斯，此外还有哲学家丹尼尔·丹尼特与罗伯特·斯滕伯格。

• The writers and scholars Haruki Murakami and Martin J. Sherwin have taught at Tufts, while Chinese-connected figures among its alumni and affiliates include the diplomats Geng Shuang, who studied at the Fletcher School in 2005 and 2006, and Liu Xiaoming.作家与学者村上春树和马丁·J·舍温都曾在塔夫茨任教；与中国相关的校友与关联人物则包括外交官耿爽与刘晓明，前者于 2005 年至 2006 年在弗莱彻学院学习。