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The Tide: Colin Allred
By Matt Rice | September 19Colin Allred is one of those exciting candidates.
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Alumnus Nathan Foster launches trustee campaign rooted in advocacy, accessibility
By Kenia French | September 19Nathan Foster (LA ’18) recently launched a campaign to become an alumni trustee. If elected, Foster would be the most recent Tufts graduate to sit on the Board of Trustees — among the current alumni trustee representatives, the most recent graduate did so in 2001.Foster’s campaign platform draws ...
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The Weekly Chirp: Staging season
By Henry Stevens | September 18How refreshing it is to arrive back on campus and watch all the starry-eyed first-years gallivanting from class to class, excited and eager to “discover themselves” and figure out “what life is all about.” Good luck with that. Many of my observations of these new college students are derived ...
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Tufts alumni promote science literacy through 'Breaking Science' lectures
By Michael Shames | September 17The world of science may often feel inscrutable for people who are not practicing scientists or engineers, or who have access to few scientific resources. Tufts alumnus Jim Sampson (LA '09, SK '15) launched the "Breaking Science" public lecture series in 2016 with the goal of breaking down those very barriers to understanding science, research and technology for the masses.
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Tufts Dining introduces new dishes in dining halls, retail locations
By Justin Yu | September 14This year, students will be able to enjoy several exciting changes to the offerings of Tufts Dining Services. Over the summer, the Dining Services team worked hard to implement several new food items and layout changes in both the dining halls and retail locations in order to improve students’ dining ...
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Tufts alum co-founds public service initiative Lead for America
By Colin Kennedy | September 10Content Warning: This article mentions domestic violence. Lead for America (LFA) is a new fellowship program aimed at bringing recent college graduates back to their local communities and implanting them into that local government. Benya Kraus (LA '18) is one of the founding members of LFA.They ...
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Picante Taqueria opens on Boston Avenue
By Jessie Newman | August 29Picante Taqueria, a Mexican restaurant located at 352 Boston Ave., next to Tamper Cafe and the Campus Mini Mart, is a new restaurant owned by Edgardo and Jessica Morales. The restaurant opened in July. Edgardo has over 26 years of experience in the restaurant business, starting as a dishwasher and ...
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Tufts enhances advising structure for first-generation, low-income, undocumented students
By Sarah Crawford | August 29Tufts is set to launch several new programs this semester that seek to improve the experiences of historically underserved student communities.The FIRST Resource Center, an initiative of the Office for Student Success and Advising (OSSA), aims to provide a resource network for the university's ...
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IGL facilitates student discussion and involvement in global issues
By Sidharth Anand | August 29The Institute of Global Leadership (IGL) traces its roots to 1985, when the entire program was a one-day symposium led by Tufts political science lecturer Sherman Teichman, and has fostered discussion of complex global issues ever since. IGL Associate Director Heather Barry said that Teichman ...
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History on the Hill: Crane Theological School
By Constantinos Angelakis | August 29When Charles Tufts donated his land in Medford in 1852, promising to “put a light” on Walnut Hill, he was helping to create “the first higher educational institution founded under Universalist auspices in American history,” according to Peter Theusen’s “Universalism in the History of Tufts.”While ...
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Student activism creates a new Start for Asian American Center
By Sean Ong | May 20The labor and energies of student activists have been central to the Asian American Center, from its founding in 1983after racist slurs were used against residents of the Asian American House, to its expansion into the entirety of the Start House that will take effect in the fall. Yet the work to make ...
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Senior Profile: Jason Mejia displays passion for music, people
By Ilana P. Goldberg | May 20In his four years at Tufts, graduating senior Jason Mejia has become beloved by so much of the Tufts community, simply by making it a priority to get to know as many people as possible.“I expected to know some people, but I didn’t expect to become the notable campus icon that I’ve come to be, ...
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Senior Profile: Lorenza Ramirez pursues career in political organizing
By Fina Short | May 20In fall 2014, graduating senior Lorenza Ramirez arrived at Tufts as the first in her family to attend college. She has not slowed down ever since. While at Tufts, Ramirez has taken classes in three separate languages, interned at the Pentagon, worked multiple part-time jobs simultaneously and graduated ...
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Senior Profile: Max Farber weaves together interests in art, sex health
By Ameenah Rashid | May 20Graduating fifth-year student Max Farber has technically attended three different institutions. He’s come a long way since his first year at Skidmore College, where he studied fine arts and social work on a premedical track. “I was at Skidmore for a year, but at its core, it just wasn’t for me. ...
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24 Medford, Somerville students receive Class of 2022 acceptances
By Jenna Fleischer | May 20This year, Tufts accepted 13 Somerville students and 11 Medford students into the Class of 2022, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Enrollment Management Karen Richardson. Tufts works with schools in Medford and Somerville to support and attract high-achieving students.“We work very ...
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Senior Profile: Megan Tse immerses in research, supports fellow women engineers
By Michael Shames | May 20Graduating senior Megan Tse refers to the factors that helped her decide on Tufts as “a series of random events.” She came to Jumbo Days as a prospective student and felt that she could see herself among the students walking around on campus. She was also very intrigued by the research going on at the school — something she hadn’t done before college. But what really sold her on the school was when she came to a Women in Engineering open house.
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Senior Profile: Jordan Kemp shoots baskets, researches nanophysics
By Sidharth Anand | May 20Graduating senior Jordan Kemp is a physics major from Kutztown, Pa. who plans to use his fruitful and multifaceted career at Tufts to fuel his pursuit of graduate study in physics. He said that the varied opportunities that Tufts provided him with have contributed to his accomplishments on campus, even ...
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Senior Profile: Amanda Borquaye, Margo Bender advocate for prison reform
By Sarah Crawford | May 20Graduating seniors and close friends Amanda Borquaye and Margo Bender have had some of their most meaningful experiences at Tufts through their involvement with the Tufts University Prison Initiative at the Tisch College of Civic Life (TUPIT).Borquaye, who majored in international relations and sociology, had ...
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Jumbo Exchange: A reflection on study abroad
By Hayato Miyajima | May 20Time flies. It really does. As of now, I have completed my exchange program in the United States.To be perfectly honest, the past nine months were not all filled with fun and happy memories. Things didn't always turn out the way I expected. It was not that everything went swimmingly back home, ...
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R.E.A.L. Talk: Second chances are not a guarantee
By Derek Castle | May 20As summer starts, students are leaving campus to plan their futures. Many will find summer jobs and internships, and they will return to their studies here at Tufts in September. Some will travel and take advantage of the time away from school. Many, like myself, will be graduating and starting a new ...
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