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Tisch Summer Fellows provides opportunities for students in public, non-profit sectors

By Michael Shames | September 3

The positive experiences of Fleming and Weinstein highlight the void that TSF has filled for students who struggle to find summer opportunities that provide both relevant experience and funds to cover the cost of living. As the program continues to grow and evolve, it seems that more students of different backgrounds and interests will be able to reap their benefits.

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History on the Hill: the Women's Center

By Amelia Becker | August 28

The Women’s Center first received funding from the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate in December 1972, with the goal of creating an intentional atmosphere addressing matters of specific concern to women, according to the Center's website. The student group was given a space in the basement of ...

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Tufts students, professors remember Sam Lobley '19

By Fina Short | August 28

In Sam Lobley’s creative writing senior honors thesis proposal, he wrote of plans to portray characters whose lives were not defined by illness. Containing one story with autobiographical elements, his short story collection “Not in the Image of Gods” explores the role of illness in family and ...

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Democratic campaigns for 2020 presidential election hit Tufts campus

By Jessie Newman | August 28

Disclaimer: Hannah Kahn is a podcast editor for the Tufts Daily. Conor Friedmann is an assistant news editor for the Tufts Daily. Neither Kahn nor Friedmann was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.The 2020 race for president of the United States will not be easily ignored. Campaigns ...

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Lisztomania: Nostalgia

By Megan Szostak | May 19

In wracking my brain for ideas on what to write for this column for commencement, memories of my high school graduation flooded into my mind, and I started to become nostalgic. Even after a year, it is still hard for me to fully grasp the fact that those four years of my life are over, and I can never ...

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Senior Profile: Emily Ki Wan Sim

By Fina Short | May 19

Ever since computer science major Emily Ki Wan Sim arrived at Tufts as the first in her family to go to college, she has worked to ensure it will be easier for others to follow in her footsteps. In four years, Sim has served as the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate Treasurer, worked as a STEM Ambassador ...

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Senior Profile: Eva Kahan

By Fina Short | May 19

Few students have been more involved in the Tufts international relations (IR) community than history and IR double major Eva Kahan. As co-director of Alliance Linking in Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), a member of the IR Student Advisory Board and founding member of Tufts Women in International ...

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Making my (Den)mark: The Final Countdown

By Allison Morgenstern | May 19

I really can’t believe how quickly this semester has gone by. So, I’ve decided to write about the top 5 things I will miss the most about Copenhagen and studying abroad.Classes. I know, I know … Why would anyone actually miss the school part of study abroad? Well, my classes with DIS have revitalized ...

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Somerville with Townie Tim: Summertime

By Nate Rubright | May 19

As the great poets of the band Sublime once said, “Summertime and the livin’s easy.” If you think otherwise, just ask all the people "in the dance"; they will gladly acknowledge that Sublime is "qualified to represent the [Long Beach Community] LBC." Hopefully, after a semester ...

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As humanities majors continue to drop, students, faculty, administrators grapple with the value of a liberal arts degree

By Mark Choi | May 19

Tufts University has long been recognized for its robust liberal arts curriculum and nationally ranked international relations program, while also providing research opportunities and facilities for its undergraduates. Historically, Tufts began as a small liberal arts college chartered by the Commonwealth ...

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Senior Profile: Parker Breza

By Michael Shames | May 19

Since his early days growing up just outside of Minneapolis, Minn., senior Parker Breza has had a passion for student activism. “I had been pretty active in high school around issues of social justice, and I knew that it was something I wanted to do in college as well,” Breza said.Breza saw that ...

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History on the Hill: Identity-based resource centers

By Sean Ong | May 19

With several vacant or soon-to-be vacant director positions in the identity-based resource centers at Tufts, students have been asking administrators to act quickly to fill those vacancies and commit to staffing these centers in the interim.Searches for new directors of the Asian American, Latino and ...

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Senior Profile: Shaan Merchant

By Mark Choi | May 19

During his four years at Tufts, Shaan Merchant has kept busy. He created his own interdisciplinary studies major in political media, served on the executive board of the Tisch Council for Philanthropic Leadership and worked as a barista at The Rez. Merchant is also a food tour guide for Boston's ...

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Ripple Effect: How many languages are there?

By Douglas Berger | April 25

Nobody knows exactly how many languages there are, and we probably never will. The best we can do is estimate. Most counts put the number somewhere between 6,500 and 7,000.It’s a bit like trying to measure a coastline — another task which seems simple at first but is in fact quite complicated. Coasts ...

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Women in International Relations discuss experience, share advice

By Amelia Becker | April 25

In recent years, women have gained a more prominent role in international relations (IR). While gender disparities have been known to exist within the field, the extent of such disparities varies within different IR concentrations. Meg Guliford, a doctoral candidate at The Fletcher School of Law and ...

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Alumni Q&A: Laurie Gabriel

By Anita Ramaswamy | April 24

The Alumni Series aims to create a diverse collection of experiences at Tufts through highlighting notable alumni.Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Laurie Gabriel (J '76) graduated from Tufts in 1976 with a bachelor of arts in economics. After her time at Tufts, ...

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Somerville with Townie Tim: Apartment Hunting

By Nate Rubright | April 24

It’s that time of the year again to look around your living room and decide if you want to give it another year with these clowns. I know the schedule for hunting for apartments can undulate depending on where you live, and I have heard of students searching as much as a year in advance. But for everyone ...

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Making my (Den)mark: April Break

By Allison Morgenstern | April 23

I just spent the past several days exploring Greece, both Athens and Santorini. Luckily, my program gives us an additional mini-break in April for the Easter holiday, so I was able to squeeze one more trip into my abroad time without feeling like I missed too much of Copenhagen’s spring weather. And ...

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Lisztomania: Globalization

By Megan Szostak | April 22

 As an aggressively Eurocentric American, I am aware that I have neglected a great part of the world in my musical analyses over these past several weeks. Of course, I do try to focus on classical music, which has historically been produced by the Western world, but there has recently been an increasing ...

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Ethics Bowl provides setting for students to consider implications of philosophy

By Sarah Crawford | April 18

Ethics Bowl is a class housed within the Department of Philosophy that is available to students during the fall semester. The course is unique in that it includes an ethics competition between students. According to Susan Russinoff, a senior lecturer in the department which has hosted the Ethics Bowl ...

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