Alumni gifts sustain planned dental school expansion, which will tack on five floors

Despite the ailing economy, alumni have made significant donations to fund Tufts’ School of Dental Medicine’s five-floor vertical expansion. The $66.5-million project will lead to more office space, an alumni education center and a clinical simulation area.

School of Engineering looks to supplement its focus on ethics

New lecture series made possible by anonymous donor

The School of Engineering’s Gordon Institute next semester will inaugurate a new engineering lecture series focusing on engineering ethics, thanks to a $40,000 gift from an anonymous alumnus. The lecture series will cover micro-ethics topics and examine concepts, such as intellectual property and privacy, that relate to the ethics of the individual.

Cameras still fair game, despite last year’s NQR uproar

Students looking to shed their clothes for the hallowed Naked Quad Run (NQR) tonight may want to be wary of who is watching them. Earlier: Video sparks student outrage.

Visiting the Hill this week

MONDAY “Economics Department and Fletcher School Seminar Series” Details: Daniel Mejia, an assistant professor of economics at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia will talk about the production and trafficking of narcotics. The presentation is part of the 2008-2009 Seminar Series sponsored by the economics department and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.