The Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory (HRI Lab) is in a far-flung corner of Tufts: 200 Boston Avenue, a location populated primarily by researchers, engineering students and, of course, robots. One of the HRI Lab’s recent experiments, a study called “Sorry, I can’t do that,” cowritten by ...
In 1969, Jimi Hendrix wowed audiences at Woodstock with his poignant and pointed rendition of the national anthem. On the evening of Jan. 28, a student delivered his own take on the song – which boasted “Hodor,” a fictional character in “Game of Thrones,” as its repeated and only lyric – ...
The world of collegiate competitive debate has recently come under scrutiny, as participants report experiencing unfair scoring based on race and gender. According to women in the Tufts Debate Society, judges sometimes deliver biased rulings due to the largely white male-dominated atmosphere of competitive ...
As the the nation’s go-to source for nutrition advice, the U.S. Federal Government released the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Jan. 7. While acting as an outline for a healthy diet, this report includes a series of key recommendations for healthy eating patterns along with five main guidelines.
It may sound like something from a science fiction movie, but recent research from the Tufts Institute of Cosmology confirms the possibility that multiple universes could exist within black holes.Last December, physics and astronomy professor Alexander Vilenkin, also the director of the Institute ...
On March 1, registered voters in Massachusetts will go to the polls to select their party's candidate for the 2016 presidential election. With this date rapidly approaching, Somerville's Bernie Sanders supporters, headed by a group called Somerville for Bernie, kicked off their campaign to help elect the Independent Senator from Vermont on Jan. 19 at The Uniun in Somerville.
As social media becomes an essential part of modern life, college admissions offices have started to use it in the college application process. While prospective students' Twitter and Instagram accounts are not being examined by Tufts admissions officers, the admissions office is actively ...
Duncan Kimmel's fascination with crosswords began during his long commute to high school, when he would pick up a local paper and do a crossword puzzle to pass the time. Soon, he said, he got pretty good at them, so he started working on the New York Times puzzles, and later ...
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"It’s a very efficient process," Chisholm said. "Before...we had a manual system, and we just don’t know how we did it with the manual system."
On Oct. 23, 1989, the Tufts campus and parts of Medford and Somerville lost power for 45 minutes between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. According to an Oct. 24, 1989 Daily article, 8,764 people were affected by the blackout, and several classes at Tufts were forced to cancel midterms. The culprit? A squirrel.The ...
In December 2013, I joined more than 150 students from Boston-area schools to march from Harvard Square to the Charles River, calling for fossil fuel divestment. I remember the excitement I felt upon realizing that the movement was not solely confined to the roughly 30 members of Tufts Divest, now ...
In an exclusive interview with college student reporters on Dec. 1, the Dailysat down with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter as he discussed today’s increasingly tech-savvy society, the Department of Defense's (DoD) modes of modernization through Carter's initiative “Force of the ...
This semester, former Tufts Traveler staff members junior Lindsay Atkeson and sophomore Lorenza Ramirez transformed the student publication into the Compass Magazine, hoping to appeal to a broader audience and to produce issues of higher quality.The Traveler was a student-produced travel magazine ...
This column was only ever, sort of, about hair. But apologies, yet again, if you were expecting a gender theory to explain it all. So here it is: The Last Hairy Woman Column, And It’s Not About Hair (getting away with two headlines).
Dear Anywhere Off Campus,This letter goes out to Demet’s Donuts, the beach out in Revere, the Brown Elementary School, coffee shops downtown and the random locations of cross country meets. I have you to thank for my sanity. Don’t get me wrong, campus is a wonderful place filled with beautiful trees, ...
This past spring, the Tufts Dental Medicine magazine published an article about maxillofacial prosthodontics, or life-changing prosthetics for people who have gone through traumatic disfigurement, external or otherwise. Many of these prosthodontics help patients regain the ability to perform basic ...
"We continue to expect approximately $15 million in annual savings while the cost to implement TEAM is expected to come under budget," Campbell wrote in the update. "While much of the annual savings will be reinvested in programmatic priorities, we expect about $4.5 million of those savings will fall to the university’s bottom line."
At the end of each semester, students are given the opportunity to evaluate courses' strengths and weaknesses using student evaluation forms, provided by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC).According to its website, the EPC aims to "initiate, receive, review, and enact policies or recommend ...
