Tufts Tales
This circus toured with the original Jumbo the elephant until he was tragically killed in a train accident.
What is P.T. Barnum's Circus?
This feature allows you to pass data to a React component when rendering it.
What are "props"? (Short for "properties".)
This 2015 technique, often described as "genetic scissors," allows for precise editing of DNA sequences and has revolutionary potential in medicine and agriculture.
What is CRISPR (or CRISPR-Cas9)?
This technology allows web pages to be styled and formatted.
What is CSS?
This 1773 gathering involved dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This sitcom actor attended Tufts in the 1980s, before transferring.
Rainn Wilson
useRef and useEffect are examples of this React concept.
What is a hook?
This 2022 space telescope, successor to Hubble, can observe some of the most distant and oldest galaxies ever detected.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This type of storage on a user's computer allows websites to remember information between visits.
What are cookies?
This Massachusetts-based ice cream chain has 17 locations, and takes its names from Jamaica Plains.
What is J.P. Licks?
In 2019, Tufts University removed the name of this controversial family from their medical school facilities and programs.
What is Sackler?
This React principle dictates that state should be stored at the closest common ancestor of components that need it.
What is "lifting state up"?
This 1953 discovery was supposedly made by Watson and Crick.
What is the double helix structure of DNA?
This architectural style for APIs uses HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.
What is REST?
The Boston Symphony Orchestra performs at this famous concert hall during the winter season.
What is Symphony Hall?
This hill in Medford, Massachusetts is the home of Tufts University's undergraduate campus.
What is Walnut Hill?
This technique allows you to render components on the server before sending them to the client.
What is Server-Side Rendering (SSR)?
This law dictates that, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd law?
This JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine allows server-side execution of JavaScript.
What is Node.js?
This famous Boston politician served as President from 1961 to 1963.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
In the late 1960s, the Tufts radio station used this object to illegally extend their radio signal's range from West Hall all the way to Philadelphia and Montreal.
What are train tracks?
This technique, built in to React, provides a way to pass data through the component tree without having to pass props down manually at every level.
What is the Context API?
Launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union, this first artificial satellite to orbit Earth kicked off the Space Race.
What is Sputnik 1?
This feature of modern browsers allows web applications to work offline.
What are Service Workers?
This Boston Public Garden sculpture featuring a line of ducks and ducklings was based on this book by Robert McCloskey.
What is Make Way for Ducklings?