Last weekend, our group went on a short excursion to Normandy, home of cider and World War II history. We stayed in a town called Caen, which was much quieter than Paris and splendidly picturesque. With two or three Gothic churches and a huge medieval castle on a hill, we had plenty to explore.Saturday ...
Dismissing Washington D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles, the United States Olympic Committee announced earlier this month that it had selected Boston as its official candidate for host of the 2024 summer games. In assembling their bid package, members of the Boston 2024 executive committee ...
Just as antisemitic feeling has seen somewhat of a recent resurgence in Europe and elsewhere, its marks have also begun to emerge on Tufts’ campus over the past year. According to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on Bello and Spicer Fields in 2013 and ...
Leading a group of current Tufts Mountain Club members, John "Whitey" White is ice climbing at Flume Gorge, at the southern end of Franconia Ridge.The ice is fairly wet today on account of the warmer weather. The group climbs all day, Whitey always there to give someone a belay or show ...
Many of my high school history teachers taught watered-down versions of political theories and concepts. In particular, I remember one history teacher who was fond of “fill-in-the-blank” note sheets. When he taught our class about capitalism, we completed the following phrase in a handout: “Adam ...
Michael Glennon is a professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His most recent book, National Security and Double Government (2014),explores the true relationship between America's "visible" institutions, and the ones that really manage national security ...
Jumbo is finally on his way. The new bronze statue of Tufts' unique mascot, a 2012 donation by Tufts alumnus Richard Reynolds (LA ’67), was supposed to join the Tufts community last fall. After a long wait and extensive preparations by sculptor Steven Whyte, Jumbo is scheduled to arrive this ...
While many students flocked to Tisch Library last reading period, about 20 members of the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) left their books behind to hold a 33-hour sit-in in Ballou Hall, demanding a stop to impending job cuts for janitors. A group of other students, both TLC members and nonmembers, along ...
A Tufts research team, working with more than eight community partners, has found a relationship between air pollutants emanating from highways and cardiovascular health in surrounding communities, and has also explored ways to mitigate exposure at the levels of policy and practice.
The Tufts Debate Society, the only official student-run competitive debate team at Tufts, is coming off a strong semester in which it hosted a tournament and competed at the World Universities Debating Championship. According to senior Noah Kirsch, the team's president, the team's membership ...
This spring, students from various health and environmental fields will take part in a new course, brought to Tufts as part of a global initiative known as One Health, that hopes to compel them to think along interdisciplinary lines.“One Health is the idea that human, animal and environmental ...
Late on the night of Monday, Nov. 24, junior A.J. Enchill was watching the news following the Missouri grand jury’s non-indictment of white police officer Darren Wilson, who shot unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson on Aug. 9. Hundreds of people in Ferguson, Mo. were pouring into the streets ...
The Tufts Board of Trustees approved an initiative to establish the Tufts Sustainability Investment Fund at its Nov. 8 meeting, which will allow donors to designate monetary gifts to be earmarked for investments that meet environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, a series of general criteria ...
For a week in early December, Tisch Library was more than just a place where students congregated to pour over books and study for exams. Instead, it became a place to which the Tufts community excitedly flocked, hoping to acquire maps that were being given away. According to an email sent to Tufts ...
Professor David Kaplan, the chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts, has dedicated over two decades to his research in naturally produced silks, namely spider silk and silkworm silk. The Daily sat down with Kaplan to discuss his research and its applications.The Tufts Daily: Why did ...
This is part two of a two-part series on gentrification in Boston's Chinatown. Part one focused on the history of the power struggle over the land and can be accessed here. Part two will focus on the situation as it stands today.
This is part one of a two-part series on gentrification in Boston's Chinatown. Part one will focus on the history of the power struggle over the land. Part two will focus on the situation today.
Over the last three years, Tufts’ Counseling and Mental Health Service (CMHS) has been slowly implementing the Interactive Screening Program (ISP), an initiative lead by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, (AFSP).While the AFSP is a private, national organization geared at reducing suicide ...
Morgan Babbs is lighting up Nicaragua, one solar-powered lamp at a time. With her social enterprise, SolarRoute, Babbs is answering the need for affordable solar technology in developing countries.Babbs,a senior majoring in international relationsand economics, was inspired to start SolarRoute after ...
The United States has one, Great Britain has one, and soon, Somerville will have one, too. Local writers Doug Holder and Harris Gardner, working with the Executive Director of Somerville's Art Council, Greg Jenkins, have created a poet laureate position for the city. Applications were accepted ...
