This is the first part of a two-part story about Tufts students who take a leave of absence from school. This part focuses on taking a personal leave of absence from Tufts. On the administrative side, taking a personal leave of absence from Tufts is as simple as two clicks on SIS. However, the ...
Disclaimer: Ambassador Roberta Jacobson's son is a news and copy editor at The Tufts Daily. He was not involved in the production of this article in any way.Roberta Jacobson is the current U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and the former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. A graduate ...
Dr. Simin Meydani, Ph.D., is Tufts University’s new Vice Provost for Research (VPR). Through this position, Meydani will work with faculty and university leadership to promote and oversee research at Tufts across all its campuses.A scientist by training with a background in veterinary medicine, Meydani ...
Although junior Avery Spratt started off her summer interning with the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), she ended it selling cacti on the upper patio of the Mayer Campus Center over Labor Day weekend. This sale was the first for Campus Cactus, an event company Spratt developed after ...
With the 2016 presidential election on the horizon, Tufts political student organizations have been pursuing different goals and agendas this summer that they will continue this fall. These organizations have their sights set on a variety of political objectives. Here is a look at what the largest political ...
Welcome to Tufts! You're now part of a community with enough terms, traditions and inside jokes to warrant a small dictionary. Below is the SparkNotes version, a primer for new Jumbos.
When looking for events and activities, Tufts students cast a wide net over a range of online sources, including the school's official events page, students' and organizations' Twitter posts and club or class pages on Facebook. Upperclassmen may recall an older online source: Tuftslife.com, a student-runwebsite ...
Ever since Kenny Weitzman was a high school student in rural New Hampshire, he knew he wanted to work on Capitol Hill. The Tufts junior saved money for the past four years, working during the summers and the school years to be able to accept an unpaid internship at Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-NH) office.Weitzman, ...
Graduating senior Xander Landen knew he wanted to pursue journalist at age 17 when, as a writer for his hometown newspaper in Weston, Mass., he was given the agency to cover the events that captivated him.“That kind of got me going; it just felt right," he said. “I loved journalism ...
A common theme throughout graduating senior Janna Karatas's four years at Tufts time on the Hill is her strong interest and commitment towards community and culture. As a FOCUS pre-orientation leader, former Tufts Community Union (TCU) senator, resident of the Spanish House and a member of the ...
Watch out, Tina and Amy — there is new talent on the scene. Jehan Madhani (LA '16), a Tufts/SMFA Dual Degree student, co-founded the all-female comedy group, Tufts Funny Ladies. Madhani has certainly made her mark on the Tufts comedy scene and plans to further her comedic and artistic talents ...
Phillip David Ellison is not your average graduating senior. A transfer student, Ellison found his passion creating education opportunities for others through his time at Tufts. Now graduating with a double major in Africana Studies and History and a minor in entrepreneurial leadership studies, his ...
We live in an era when more and more people are choosing to live in urbanized areas. These people are also morelikely than their predecessors to eschew car ownership in favor of transit pass ownership. As such, cities around the country have been investing in a wave of transit infrastructure projects. ...
For most Tufts students, time on the Hill lasts only four years, and their memory of Tufts only includes the people they met and the experiences they had within that time. However, some students and faculty — both current and late — have devoted their time to looking back decades, even centuries, ...
Senior Henry Hooper Gleason was looking through old scrapbooks that his aunt found under hats and books in the back of a closet when he came across an article written about his grandmother, Elizabeth Gertrude Gleason. This article dubbed her the longest legacy student at Tufts, with 17 diplomas in her ...
Readers, it’s been a great semester exploring stories with you all. In this final issue, I’d like to turn your attention to a more terrifyingly ephemeral topic: your memory. As we graduate and move onto this so called “real life,” what kind of narrative do we write for ourselves in order to ...
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to paint for you the picture of where we have been and where we are going, so that your education does not pass by you like a warm summer’s day. And by education, I mean all of the extensive (i.e. potentially interesting but mostly superfluous) information about ...
This academic year saw the adoption and subsequent signing of what a Dec. 16, 2015 Atlantic article called “one of the most important piece of international diplomacy in years.” At the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris in Dec. 2015, 195 nations finally hammered out a deal on international cooperation on greenhouse gas mitigation; last month, on Earth Day, 175 nations signed it. If it remains intact, it could put the world on a path to getting serious about limiting emissions, and while many scientists say the agreement doesn’t go nearly far enough, most still see it as climate policy’s most important moment to date.
Comedian and actor Hank Azaria, the Commencement speaker for the Class of 2016, graduated from Tufts in 1987 with majors in drama and psychology. He went on to have a successful acting and voice acting career, notably voicing a number of characters on "The Simpsons," including Moe Szyslak, ...
Arianna Huffington (AH): It’s constantly evolving, and the universe of platforms where people engage with news is expanding exponentially ... Whatever our goals are as media organizations, [there is a universal] need to stay nimble, to adapt, to iterate and to evolve in this ever-changing environment — to disrupt ourselves so that we are not disrupted.
