Tufts 4 the Cure

11/23/2012

This month, people around the world are participating in No-Shave November to raise cancer awareness. Since so many of our participants love fighting cancer, you're all probably doing no-shave, right...? ;)

Drop the razor & donate your monthly trimming costs to fight cancer.

04/22/2012

It's Earth Day! Want to recycle your computer's power for a good cause? Download Tufts 4 the Cure, and get your friends to, too!

If you have a computer, then you can help cure cancer, AIDS, and muscular dystrophy. You can even expand humanity's understanding of the human genome and research new ways of attaining clean energy and clean water. Together, we can solve some of the biggest problems in the world.

03/24/2012

Home for Spring Break? Download the Cure on your home computer(s) before heading back to campus! Jumbo families can join for the cure!

03/22/2012

Want to keep improving Public Health? Vote for Tufts' "Village Zero Project" online by tomorrow! And if you've already voted, be sure you're helping out in every way you can - including with the T4TC screensaver!

While there will be tremendous attention paid to athletic accomplishment at the NCAA "Final Four" men`s and women`s basketball championships, the Clinton Global Initiative University will celebrate ideas and Commitments to Action by introducing our inaugural "CGI U Commitments Challenge."

03/08/2012

It's International Women's Day! We're celebrating Rosângela Silqueira Hickson Rios, the principal bioinformatics investigator for "Say No to Schistosoma," responsible for the latest Tufts 4 the Cure project! Who are you celebrating?

03/07/2012

Anthony Monaco studies Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy ... and so does Tufts 4 the Cure!

University President Anthony Monaco was at bat last Friday at the Experimental College’s ongoing lecture series, “A Taste of Tufts: A Sampling of Faculty Research.” His lecture, entitled “Genes for Walking, Genes for Talking: 25 years of Human Molecular Genetics,” focused mainly on his studies invol...

03/07/2012

Roughly 3% of the Tufts undergraduate population is working toward the cure. If each participant invites a few friends, perhaps we can break into the double digits...

03/05/2012

New Research Project Added: "Say No to Schistosoma." Help stop parasitic worms with your screensaver! (Project should be added automatically for current users!)

World Community Grid

02/05/2012

Yesterday was world cancer day - and Tufts contributed 42 hours of collective research during that time! But that number can be even bigger - help grow our 155-member team by inviting a friend to join the Cure!

01/08/2012

Harnessing the power of the internet to digitize books or translate foreign languages - an awesome application of the power we've already discovered; working together online to help the world!

TED Talks After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while tra...

01/02/2012

On average, the Tufts 4 the Cure collective processes 40 hours of research every 24-hour day. So in this new year, we should be able to do 600+ days of good! Perhaps the world won't end in 2012 after all...