Members of the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution calling for Tufts to divest from four companies that it says are involved in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The resolution, which drew an audience of more than 100 students, passed with 17 in favor, six opposed ...
MONDAY"Federalism in the Era of Climate Change"Details: Samantha Medlock, former senior advisor for the White House Office of Management and Budget and deputy director for climate preparedness of the White House Council on Environmental Quality during President Barack Obama's tenure, ...
About 200 students from across the country came to Tufts over the weekend for the nonprofit Class Action’s fifth annual First Generation College Student Summit, according to Class Action Executive Director Anne Phillips and Associate Dean for Student Success and Advising Robert Mack.The annual ...
The Tufts Alumni Association hosted the 2017 Senior Awards Ceremony last Saturday afternoon in the ASEANAuditorium. This year, 12 members of the Class of 2017 were given awards for their achievements in academics, leadership and community service.The awards ceremony was preceded with a dinner reception ...
Tufts purchased two Prysm Visual Workplaces earlier this semester on a trial basis, according to Christine Fitzgerald, service marketing and communications manager at Tufts Technology Services. The Prysm Visual Workplace is a touchscreen system that allows users to edit, create and share documents, according ...
Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) hosted a panel discussion last night about ongoing efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in the Greater Boston area. The event, which was part of the IGL's Inquiry program, featured Jewish Family Service of Metrowest (JFS) CEO Marc Jacobs, JFS Director ...
Crash CourseThe Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report of a motor vehicle accident on campus at 6:14 p.m. on March 30. A bicycle rider had collided with a parked car when someone in the car opened the rear passenger door. Both sides exchanged information to reach an agreement on ...
Content warning: This article discusses sexual violence.Students shared narratives about sexual violence to a full audience in Cohen Auditorium during It Happens Here on Tuesday night. All narratives submitted to the event, which were unedited by the steering committee, were from Tufts students. ...
The Tufts Democrats plans to set up regular phoning tables in the Mayer Campus Center to allow students to contact their senators and representatives. Having hosted a phoning table earlier this semester, the group plans to set up another one in the next few weeks, according to Ben Kaplan, president ...
"Working in the Venture Lab gave me the opportunity to meet many like-minded individuals and gain insight from all of their experiences," he said. "I found that hearing stories, both successes and failures, from others was by far one of the most useful things about the Venture Lab, aside from those that we were connected to through events or simply meeting them in the lab."
Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) will host a symposium on April 11 celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the partnership between Tufts and SEI.Named the Tufts-SEI Nexus Symposium, the public event will bring together Tufts and SEI researchers ...
The Somerville Board of Aldermen unanimously voted to approve a bond issue for the construction of a new high school on March 22. The Board of Aldermen's appropriation totaled $255,982,704, making Somerville High School the most expensive high school building project in Massachusetts history, according to a Nov. 8, 2016 Boston Globe article.
Also, Klos found the suggestion of increased transparency on the basis of meal plan and food item pricing to be an unclear proposal. She said that, per university policies, Tufts Dining will not discuss staff salaries and supplier contracts, but it is willing to discuss student needs.
Cybersecurity policy expert Susan Landau will join Tufts faculty next fall as a Bridge Professor between the School of Engineering and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Landau, currently a professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, was chosen for the bridge professorship ...
The Tufts Muslim Student's Association (MSA) hosted an event titled “The Muslim Ban: Histories of Exclusion, Practices of Resistance,” featuring Yale Clinical Professor of LawMuneer Ahmad in the Crane Room on Thursday evening.Tufts Associate Professor of Political Science Natalie Masuoka ...
Boston-area supporters of the transgender community protested the arrival of a bus spreading an anti-transgender message along the East Coast on Thursday, March 30.The bus, branded the “Free Speech Bus,” began its Boston route at the Boston City Hall, followed by the Massachusetts State House ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss several supplementary funding requests, as well as a resolution calling for Spanish and French minors.Senate initially planned to vote on a resolution calling for the abolition of Greek life at last ...
MONDAY"The Politics of Human Rights"Details:Judith Butler, a philosopher studying feminist theory and a professor at University of California, Berkeley, will give a speech about the nature of human rights throughout history through a postcolonial, critical legal studies and political thought ...
Stolen BeautyA student reported his skateboard stolen at 2 p.m. on March 24. The skateboard, which was decorated with blue paint on the bottom and a white drawing of a geisha on its face, was taken from the front of Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center on March 15. It had been left there for the better part ...
Coordinated recruitment for two Tufts sororities -- Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) and Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) -- began this week, after the suspension of recruitment for all Greek life organizations was lifted. During the week's recruitment events, some students gathered to protest Greek life as an ...
