TUESDAY"After the Oath: Policy Questions for a New President with Kelly Sims Gallagher and Michele L. Malvesti"Details: Adam Reilly, host of WGBH’s “The Scrum," will moderate a discussion with Associate Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher and Professor of the Practice Michele L. Malvesti ...
About 175 people gathered outside Ballou Hall on a rainy Oct. 22 for a rally organized by Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC). The rally was in support of Tufts janitors’ demands for their contracts with Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) Services as the Oct. 31 contract negotiatation deadline approaches, ...
Following the university's acquisition of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) this summer, the upcoming admissions cycle will mark the first that will be overseen by Tufts. To prepare for this process, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has been aligning the SMFA admission standards ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met yesterday evening in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room to approve funding requests.After completing roll call, Senate began reviewing funding increase requests submitted by 12 campus groups.Senate passed the Allocations Board’s recommendations to ...
It has been a little over six weeks since five facilities workers were switched to a Tuesday-Saturday schedule from the Monday-Friday schedule they were hired to work, and workers say that dissatisfaction is still high as they grapple with the effects of the change.“I think overall morale is definitely ...
Posters naming Tufts students and one Tufts professor as terrorists connected to Hamas were put up across the Medford/Somerville campus on Oct. 19. The Horowitz Freedom Center, a self-identified conservative anti-Islamist group, claimed responsibility for the posters in an email received by a number of Tufts students on the same day. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) names the Horowitz Freedom Center as a hate group in its 2015 report, and calls the organization "the premier financier of anti-Muslim voices and radical ideologies, as well as acting as an exporter of misinformation."
During the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting on Oct. 10, an Allocations Board (ALBO) recommendation concerning the expansion of TCU-provided stipends was introduced for discussion. The ALBO recommendation proposed stipends for the Diversity and Community Affairs Officer, the Parliamentarian ...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded President of Colombia and Former Fletcher Fulbright Scholar Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize for 2016 on Oct. 7. Santos was awarded the prize for his efforts to end the country's civil war."The president himself has made it clear that he will continue ...
Tufts community members gathered in spaces across campus last night to view the third and final presidential debate featuring Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.Before the debate, the Office of the Provost, Tisch College of Civic Life and ...
The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy's Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC) Speaker Series hosted CEO of Gap Inc. Art Peck in ASEAN Auditorium on Oct. 19 for an event titled “Minding the Gap: The Art of Sustainable Leadership.” The discussion, attended by about 50 people, ...
As Massachusetts undergoes its most serious drought in decades, Tufts and many of the surrounding areas remain largely unrestricted in terms of water usage.In its most recent weekly report released last Thursday, the United States Drought Monitor classified 98.03 percent of the state as being under ...
This semester, Computer Science Professors Mark Sheldon and Bruce Molay have implemented a new system by which Data Structures (COMP 15) teaching assistants (TAs) and students can interact.
Approximately 160 alumni, students, faculty and community members gathered at the Breed Memorial Hall yesterday evening to attend the Lyon & Bendheim Alumni Lecture Series event, featuring theSkimmco-founders Danielle Weisberg (LA '08) and Carly Zakin. Weisberg and Zakin discussed media ...
Tisch College Professor of the Practice David Gregory moderated a panel entitled "A Year Like No Other: Politics & the Press in 2016," featuring New York Times Political Correspondent Patrick Healy (LA '93), NPR Political Reporter Asma Khalid and Mic! Co-founder Jake Horowitz.The ...
The Great DividerTufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from a university staff member about a stolen room partition on Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. The staff member had brought the room partition to Cabot Intercultural Center but found it missing when he later returned. It has not yet been ...
Massachusetts State Senator Pat Jehlen met with a group of about 25 students in Paige Hall Terrace Room yesterday at 6 p.m. for a discussion about the long term-effects of charter schools and why she believes voters should vote against the Massachusetts Authorization of Additional Charter Schools ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate assembled on Oct. 16 in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room to discuss project proposals and decide upon supplementary funding requests.After beginning the meeting with roll call, Executive Director of the Career Center Gregory Victory introduced himself ...
JumboCode was recognized by Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary on Oct. 2 as one of the official new student groups on campus, according to TCU Judiciary Chair Anna Weissman. The group, which began last fall, provides students interested in computer science with an opportunity to help non-profit ...
Approximately 50 students and faculty gathered with scholars and indigenous nation members to discuss native art, colonialism and indigeneity as part of the third annual workshop held by the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora (RCD) last Friday in Sophia Gordon Hall.The event, ...
MONDAYA Year Like No Other: Politics & the Press in 2016Details: Journalist David Gregory will be hosting a panel discussion on this year's presidential election. Guests include NPR's Asma Khalid, Mic! founder Jake Horowitz and New York Times reporter Patrick Healy (LA '93). Registration ...
