According to Karen Richardson, dean of admissions and enrollment management, Tufts Admissions received a record 22,725 applications to the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering for the Class of 2023, an increase of 5.7 percent from the record-setting pool last year. Record numbers of applicants ...
The FIRST Resource Center, which supports first-generation, low-income and undocumented students at Tufts, is currently developing a video project to raise awareness of challenges for first-generation and low-income students in the classroom, according to Rob Mack, Tufts' associate provost and ...
Tufts is pursuing the widespread installation of solar panels across the Medford/Somerville campus that could, if fully implemented, bring Tufts toward its goal of being carbon-neutral by 2050.An array of solar panels was recently installed on the roof of Lewis Hall, Tufts Director of Engineering ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held its final meeting this semester Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss a proposed bylaw amendment, hear addresses on the state of the TCU and vote on funding requests.The proposed bylaw, introduced by TCU Parliamentarian Sharif Hamidi, ...
The Somerville Board of Aldermen approved a resolution on Nov. 20 in support of Massachusetts House Bill 2785, which would expunge the criminal records of people charged with marijuana-related crimes.The bill states that any record of a court appearance or violation of marijuana regulations prior ...
The university reversed course on its requirement that students must register campus demonstrations of over 25 people with the Office for Campus Life (OCL), according to a Nov. 29 email to the Tufts community from Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon, Director of Community Standards Kevin Kraft ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) announced changes to housing lottery system in a Nov. 28 email to students.Three significant changes were made in the housing application process, according to Associate Director of Housing Operations Matt Austin: The application process for special ...
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has been developing two new master's programs: the Master of Arts in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership and the Master of Science in Data Analytics.According to Dean of the GSAS Robert Cook, both degrees emphasize an interdisciplinary approach, ...
The same technology that has introduced innovative methods in the fight against art destruction has also introduced new ethical dilemmas, one of America's preeminent art crime professors told Tufts community members at an event on Wednesday night.Erin Thompson, associate professor of art crime ...
On the morning of Nov. 17, Medford City Solicitor Mark Rumley, acting at the behest of Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke, requested that Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers remove seven Native American artifacts owned by the Medford Public Library (MPL) from a Dec. 1 auction, according to Rumley.The seven ...
Tufts Dining Services is exploring the option of combining the JumboCash and Rhino Bucks campus currency systems into a system that would allow students to manage their campus currency on a single card, according to Patti Klos, director of Dining and Business Services.Klos said that this process would ...
MelroseWakefield Healthcare announced that it will be closing the emergency room at Medford's Lawrence Memorial Hospital (LMH) but extending the hours of the hospital’s urgent care services,according to an email sent to LMH staff by MelroseWakefield CEO Sue Sandberg. While LMH serves students ...
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey spoke to members of the Tufts, Medford and Somerville communities Monday about state and national politics and critical issues facing Massachusetts and the United States at Distler Performance Hall in the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center. Healey spoke ...
JumbosOn Nov. 26 at 6:25 p.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a fire alarm at Tousey House, located at 14 Edison Avenue. The alarm went off due to a graduate student using a microwave that was said to be broken. Medford Fire Department ventilated the area and reset the ...
Content warning: This article discusses mental health.Five-time All-Star and NBA champion Kevin Love discussed his experience coping with mental health issues at a discussion in Cohen Auditorium on Nov. 29. Moderated by The New York Times sports columnist Juliet Macur, the talk was part of a series ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met Sunday in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss the Senate-led project Students Lifting Up the Spirit of the Herd (SLUSH) Fund, hear a resolution calling for divesting from the firearms industry and consider Allocations Board (ALBO) funding appeals ...
Stair downOn Nov. 17 at 12:02 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to an on-campus call at Bush Hall, where a student had fallen down the stairs and struck their head. The student was found to be drinking, evaluated by Tufts Emergency Medical Services and then transported to ...
Around 60 students on Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus welcomed a rainy first night of Hanukkah at the Mayer Campus Center Sunday in a candle-lighting service that was as much about the holiday as about American Jewish identity in the wake of the recent rise in antisemitism.The ceremony, a 15-year-old ...
Roughly 200 students, faculty and area residents attended a walk out and campus march Thursday to protest the university's tiered housing system and to call for the construction of a new high-capacity dorm on campus.Nathan Krinsky, a co-founder of Tufts Housing League (THL), said that THL and Tufts ...
“I haven’t ruled anything out," Kerry said. "Nothing is off the table.”
