Tufts Alumni Club Athens April 8, 2005

The first Greek student at Tufts, Vasilios Papavasiliou, received an MD in From 1915 to the 1930s Greek students at Tufts came primarily for professional study in medicine and dentistry or undergraduate degrees in engineering. HISTORY

The university did not graduate more than about a dozen Greek students per year until 1975, after which the numbers were greater. All Greek students were male until 1965, after which there were increasing numbers of women, though never fully half. Starting in the 1940s and 1950s, Greek students also received BAs and MAs, although they were still overly represented in engineering. HISTORY

PRESENT GREEK STUDENTS AT TUFTS  Usually Tufts receives between undergraduate applications from Greece. The average from the last 3 years is 25. In , Tufts received 34 applications.  Students from Greece are attracted to the strong reputation Tufts has for its international population and attractive cosmopolitan setting in Boston.

 About 3 new Greek students attend Tufts Undergraduate Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering each year.  Students mainly apply from private schools in Athens (Athens College, Moraitis, American Community, Campion).  Currently there are 31 students from Greece studying at Tufts at both undergraduate and graduate levels and at professional schools.

The Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies in Fletcher School was founded with a $1.5 million gift from Constantine Karamanlis Foundation This visiting professorship brings distinguished faculty members in campus.

The Jaharis Center was completed in 2003 and houses both lab and office space for the Tufts School of Medicine and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

The Hellenic Association of Tufts Alumni was founded in 1994 There are over 300 Tufts alumni in Greece Alumni Associations: - Dental Alumni - Fletcher Alumni

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SPECIAL THANKS Sylvia Augusteijn, Archives Assistant, Archives Department Leon Braswell, Director of International Recruitment and Transfer Admissions Gretchen Dobson, Assistant Director, Regional Programs, Office of Alumni Relations Jane Etish-Andrews, Director, International Center Eric Johnson, Dir Principal & Leadrship Gifts Marilena Koutsoukou, President, Tufts Hellinic Society Professor George Marcopoulos, History Department Dawn Terkla, Research

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