Vernon Miller has been named the first director of the university’s new Indigenous Center and will assume his role on March 8.

Vernon Miller has been named the first director of Tufts University’s new Indigenous Center.

Growing up in a one-bedroom flat in a triple-decker with his parents and three sisters in Somerville’s Teele Square, Peter Delli Colli, A69, D73, never could have imagined he would have a lifelong relationship with the university down the street.

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