An photo assignment for the Boston Globe.

A collection of graphics reporting on a bomb threat made at Tufts University in 2016.

"Approximately 15 students from Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) conducted a silent protest of Tufts labor practices Friday morning at Cousens Gym during annual Jumbo Days programming for prospective students. Following the morning demonstration, TLC members marched with janitors across campus to deliver a letter to University President Anthony Monaco, requesting a sit-down meeting to discuss the impact of last year’s custodial reorganization.”

The New England fishing industry has been struggling for many years. Environmentalists and regulators have restricted fishermen’s ability to work as fish populations such as cod reach dangerously low levels. Gloucester, Massachusetts, a 400 hundred year-old seaport is struggling. Fishermen are backing out of the industry and a once impressive fleet has been reduced to no more than a handful of boats. Will the Gloucester of tomorrow resemble its blue-collar fishing heritage?

The company from which Tufts contracts its custodial services, DTZ, formerly UGL Unicco, has had a business relationship with the university since 2011. While custodians, union representatives and students demanded that the university make no cuts to the janitorial staff, members of the administration defended the decision to reallocate custodial labor and said that the terms of the reorganization were to be determined by DTZ alone.

Throughout the last year, Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) has been organizing in support of DTZ custodial employees who work on Tufts’ campuses. Students, faculty, staff and members of the custodians’ union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ, held demonstrations in opposition to a reorganization of the staff, which was originally estimated to result in 35 layoffs and was projected to save the university $900,000 annually. After the restructuring was implemented earlier this year — ultimately displacing 18 custodians, seven of whom are no longer working with DTZ — efforts have turned to fundraising in support of those workers who were affected.

Amy, who grew up in Los Angeles, says she never foresaw owning goats. Her city-bound parents did pay for horseback-riding lessons for her though and unwittingly fostered her love for the countryside. At the age of 17, Amy moved across the country to Kentucky, exiting her southern California life forever. “I like not having my neighbor two feet from me," she says. "Once I moved out of L.A., there was no going back."

More Than Pain is a series of narratives from patients, caregivers and activists in Kenya on the theme of access to morphine and palliative care in West Africa. The product of an international group of students and journalists in collaboration with grassroots activists and NGOs in Nairobi, Kenya, this work puts forth narratives intended to impact international drug policy and social stigma concerning end of life medicines. While also a participant in the workshop, I was a principle designer of the resulting website.

The story of a palliative care nurse in Nairobi, Kenya treating a terminally ill man, Samwell.

Despite strong pushback from student and union activists, Tufts laid off four janitors from its custodial staff before the start of this academic year and several others have left the company.

The third annual Fall Gala, held in Gantcher Center last Friday, sold out tickets but also saw an increase in students who had to be evaluated by Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS).

In 2000 Sheila Kadende moved from Zimbabwe to Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2006 her landlord suddenly evicted her and every other resident of their building in Johannesburg's Central Business District to make way for new construction: a mall. Kadende is a victim of the city government's efforts to rejuvenate low-income areas with shopping centers and small businesses - an effort commonly known as gentrification. Since her eviction, Kadende, 42, her eight year old daughter Madeleine and her twenty year old nephew Washington have lived in a desperate housing situation, provided by the government that theoretically treats accommodation as a human right but practically is overwhelmed by systemic poverty.

Since as early as 7 AM, for the past week, representatives from the Boston Building Trades Council of the Metropolitan District (or Metro BCTC) have been gathering near Tufts University campus coffee shop, Brown and Brew, and Powder House Square in order to protest the school’s lack of commitment to using unionized labor on their construction projects.