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Q&A: Julie Ross, CMHS director, says self-care is more important now than ever
By Madeleine Aitken | September 10Editor’s note: This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
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With musicology livestream, Pennington raises more than $10,000 for The Bail Project
By Sam Russo | September 8As he began to stream at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 4, Stephan Pennington cautiously set a $500 fundraising goal for himself. When he signed off his computer in the wee hours of Friday, June 5, he had raised over $10,000 to support bail funds through The Bail Project, a nonprofit that works to end the bail system by paying bail for low-income Americans and advocating against pretrial incarceration. Over the coming days, Pennington’s fundraising total increased to $12,600.
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You Gotta Know: Amanda Stone, pre-health advisor
By Kayla Butera | September 8In this day and age of endless Zoom and Webex conferences, phone calls are rare. Personal ones are even rarer. A warm, welcoming voice greeted me on the other end: “Hi there, I’m honored to talk to you!”
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Students from coast to coast protest police brutality, seek justice for George Floyd
By Madeleine Aitken, Ethan M. Steinberg and Ryan Shaffer | June 10Manhattan, New York City
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First year to Senior year: Roommates face hard goodbyes after 4 years living together
By Jillian Collins | May 18This graduation season brings varied emotions to all seniors as they look back on their four years spent at Tufts. However, some seniors also have to say goodbye to the only roommate they have ever known. For these seniors, their first year roommate was integral to their college experience and supported them all four years.
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Senior Profile: Thorne finds community through music, memes
By Sidharth Anand | May 18If you have frequented the “Tufts Memes for Quirky Queens” Facebook group, you have most likely come across Kirt Thorne.
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'Community will always matter': Group of Six continues to support students remotely
By Amelia Becker | May 18Following the announcement that Tufts would be transitioning to remote learning and students would have to leave campus, the Group of Six identity-based resource centers worked to support students in this new environment.
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Senior Profile: Lee promotes sex positivity on campus, addresses health care inequalities
By Kayla Butera | May 18Senior year of high school, Aram Lee was in a predicament: Wellesley College or Tufts?
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Senior Profile: Meehan enters biotechnology field despite initial discouragement
By Sam Russo | May 18Graduating senior Emma Meehan doesn’t like being told that what she wants to do, particularly as an engineer, isn’t possible.
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From engineering masks to caring for patients, Tufts students fight COVID-19
By Fina Short | May 17COVID-19 scattered Tufts students across the country after campus' closure forced classes online and students indefinitely indoors. From emergency rooms to engineering labs and Zoom calls, a select group of students worked tirelessly to mitigate the impact of the novel coronavirus. Below are nine of their stories.
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Senior Profile: Islam gives back through education
By Madeleine Aitken | May 17Senior Prince Islam is the son of two Bangladeshi immigrants, neither of whom were able to pursue formal education. Therefore, getting a good education was a priority in Islam’s house growing up.
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Medford Mom: The best of both of us
By Lexi Serino | May 10When my father was 17 years old, his heart stopped for a full five minutes. He was in a horrible drowning accident at the Breakheart Reservation when he was a junior at Medford High School. He was resuscitated, and he might not often admit it, but his survival was nothing short of a miracle.
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Jen O'Malley Dillon keeps the Biden campaign human during COVID-19
By Sam Russo | April 27Last month, Jen O’Malley Dillon (LA'98) was given the daunting task of leading a team of people she barely had the chance to meet. As the Biden campaign’s newly selected campaign manager, she was given just one day to meet her new co-workers before COVID-19 forced the campaign into remote working.
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From New York to California, COVID-19 disrupts Tufts students, their lifestyles
By Ethan M. Steinberg | April 27Over the past several weeks, COVID-19 has affected the entire university. Campus closed abruptly, classes went virtual and the Tufts community now lies scattered across the world. As the virus has spread, some locations have been hit harder than others.
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From seniors to citizens: Normal-ish
By Ross Sonnenblick | April 27Senior spring to social security. On the hill to over the hill. Graduation to … grandchildren? Here's what seniors have to say before all is said and done.
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From seniors to citizens: Out the window
By Ross Sonnenblick | April 27Senior spring to social security. On the hill to over the hill. Graduation to … grandchildren? Here's what seniors have to say before all is said and done.
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Students, DCA documenting moment in time during COVID-19
By Katie Furey | April 24The COVID-19 pandemic will without a doubt make the history books, and as members of a generation living through this crisis while in college, every Tufts student will have a story to share with the people of the future.
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From seniors to citizens: 2 paths
By Ross Sonnenblick | April 21Senior spring to social security. On the hill to over the hill. Graduation to ... grandchildren? Here's what seniors have to say before all is said and done.
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Wiener running for TCU President with goal of increasing communication between students, administration
By Olivia King | April 17Sarah Wiener, class of 2021, recently announced her candidacy for 2020–21 TCU President. She’s running on a platform that aims to increase communication lines between students and the Tufts administration.
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Gebetsberger running for TCU President with goal of amplifying other students’ voices
By Olivia King | April 17“I'm running for president because I really believe that this community should be a place where no matter where you're coming from, no matter what your walk of life is, you are treated in an equitable and just way, and you have everything you need to do well at this university, to feel welcome and enjoy your experience to the fullest,” Grant Gebetsberger said.
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