Progressive political organizations and activist groups at Tufts have mobilized around resisting President Donald Trump's agenda and have used his surprise electoral victory as a rallying cry, according to interviews with students in multiple groups.Meanwhile, campus conservative groups are also ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate will have a first-generation community senator for the first time in the upcoming fall semester. The process was spearheaded by Charlie Zhen, a rising junior senator, who will be the Asian American Community Senator and chair of the Student Outreach Committeenext ...
Tufts has hired K. Martinez, former Associate Director of the Diversity and First-Gen Office at Stanford University, to direct the Tufts Women's Center. Martinez began their new role at Tufts on May 8.The hiring concludes a semester-long, nationwide search to replace former Women's Center ...
Tufts graduate students employed by the School of Arts & Sciences voted to unionize and join Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local #509, according to Elizabeth Gemperline, assistant to the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Region 1, which includes Boston. ...
A group calling itself TuftsLeaks published documents online earlier this month that contain sensitive financial information from Tufts. The leak included department budgets, the salaries of thousands of staff and faculty and the ID numbers of student employees with salaries listed. Only student salaries ...
Vice President of Operations Linda Snyder will retire from Tufts at the end of this semester, after about four and a half years at the university. Since beginning her term in 2012, Snyder has overseen facilities services, dining, public safety and campus planning, among other departments.Current Director ...
Graduate student employees of Tufts' School of Arts and Sciences and School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) will begin the process of voting to unionize with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 509 today.
Oath Craft Pizza in Davis Square is the newest off-campus venue to join the JumboCash program. The pizza restaurant approached the university about joining the program a little over a month ago, Oath's general manager Christopher Ryder recalled.“We definitely heard that there were a couple of ...
Ming Chow, a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, has won this year’s Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Advising. The award is given annually to a professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering, according to an announcement by the School ...
For the first time, Tufts will be offering two study abroad programs for students during the summer 2017 session. "Rome in Focus: Philosophy & Photography in the Eternal City" is a new course offered by the Department of Philosophy, while "Bridging Venice" is a course that was ...
Due DatesA student sent in a report to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) at 12:41 p.m. on April 20 after finding that a book he had bought online from the bookstore was marked as active property of Tufts. Earlier on, the student thought he had misplaced some of his history textbooks from ...
Abi Williams has been named the new director of the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), beginning on July 1. He was also appointed as Professor of the Practice of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Williams' term will follow Founding Director Sherman Teichman's three ...
Junior Benya Kraus was elected Tufts Community Union (TCU) President for the next academic year, following online elections yesterday. Kraus, currently the Diversity and Community Affairs Officer in TCU Senate, ran unopposed in the election.Krauswon 70.96 percent of the 699 votes cast, with 19.31 percent for ...
A group of researchers, including Associate Professor of Psychology Ariel Goldberg and former Tufts graduate student Naomi Caselli, were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) visualization award for ASL-LEX, an interactive and searchable lexical database for American Sign Language (ASL).Karen ...
The annual $100k New Ventures Competition -- a contest organized by the Gordon Institute's Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies (ELS) Program that awards funding to several startup teams -- selected the winners for this year's competition two weeks ago.The three winning teams will all receive ...
Brown and Brew Coffee House will close at the end of the business day on Aug. 11 after more than 20 years of operation, according to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos. The decision to close Brown and Brew was made when it became apparent that a new cafe will be included in the ...
Latino Center Director Rubén Salinas Stern will retire this August after working at Tufts for 24 years, according to an email sent to the Latinx community on April 6. Stern explained that he made the decision to retire for several personal reasons and after realizing that it was hard to remain ...
After student support and lobbying by Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, Tufts will offer Hindi-Urdu classes next semester as part of the Experimental College. Both Hindi-Urdu 1 and 3 will be offered, and the 15-person Hindi-Urdu 1 section is currently full, according to the Student Information ...
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé, the former foreign minister of Spain, spoke about the complicated nature of the Middle East peace process and criticized past pitfalls and missed opportunities at an event in a mostly-full Alumnae Lounge last night.The event was sponsored by the Education for Public ...
Editor's Note: Khuyen Bui, a columnist at the Daily, is cited in this article. He was not involved in the production of the article.Voices of the Hill student group will host "The Gap," its first monologue event, this evening at 8 p.m. in Breed Memorial Hall. At the event, Tufts students will ...
