A new student group, Women in the Social Sciences, formed this semester with the intent of connecting and empowering women studying the social sciences at Tufts.According to group co-founder Eva Kahan, the group will have education, outreach and community committees and will look to provide its ...
This fall, the School of Engineering introduced FAST-TRAC, a new scholarship program created to help underrepresented and economically disadvantaged engineering students get Master's degrees.The program will be funded by a five year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...
A new university-wide task force dedicated to student mental health is being launched this fall, according to an email announcement from University President Anthony Monaco on Sept. 9. The task force will be co-chaired by Monaco and Paul Summergrad, chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Tufts School ...
Damsels is a new student club this fall that aims to create a comfortable, affirmative space for women writers at Tufts and beyond.The club creates a community and platform for women writers to share their stories by providing resources that expose women’s voices to broader communities, according ...
The LGBT Center restarted the Queer Men's Group, now the center's seventh discussion group on campus, last week, according to LGBT Center Director Nino Testa.The open group will meet weekly for sessions facilitated by Nick Whitney (LA '16), graduate coordinator at the LGBT Center. "Hopefully, ...
Tea TimeTufts University Police Department (TUPD) and the Somerville Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at Richardson House on Sept. 28 at 5:22 p.m. The cause of the alarm was an electric teapot with a plastic base that was left on the stove for too long. The base melted and the teapot began ...
The first Senior Night of the year will be held on Oct. 20, according to Tufts University Social Collective (TUSC) Seniors, also known as the Senior Class Council, which is the group responsible for organizing Senior Nights.The event, titled "Senior Oktoberfest," will take place on the President's ...
Monday"From Bush to Obama and Beyond: Learning and Not Learning the Lessons of Iraq and Warfare in the Middle East"Details: Rami Khouri, senior fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government's Middle East Initiative, will be giving a lecture assessing the United States' ...
Tufts is changing its one course, one credit system to the widely-used semester-hour unit system, otherwise known as the credit-hour system, by fall 2018, according to a post made on the Tufts Student Life Website. The new system will make most courses worth three credit-hours, though some may be ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate convened Sunday for the first time this semester as an entire body in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room.After beginning with roll call attendance, Director of the Office of Campus Life Joe Golia, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Chris Rossi, Senior Associate ...
Tabias Wilson(LA '13) returned to campus to speak about his book, "Godless Circumcisions: A Recollecting & Re-membering of Blackness, Queerness & Flows of Survivance," where he was met with a full room inside the Granoff Music Center on the evening of Sept. 29. The event, titled, ...
The Residential Strategies Working Group (RSWG) is now looking to implement its recommendations for student housing, which include offering more on-campus housing options for juniors and seniors, improving existing residential facilities and potentially charging different prices for different on-campus ...
Tufts is launching the Trans Support Task Force to improve university resources available for transgender students and streamline communication within the Tufts community, according to Nino Testa, director of the LGBT Center and task force co-chair.
The first event in a series of post-debate dialogues was held on Sept. 27 by the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President, Tisch College, the University Chaplaincy and the Office of Students Affairs to give students an opportunity to discuss their personal concerns and reactions to the upcoming 2016 ...
Despite efforts to bring an Alpha Gamma Delta (AGD) chapter to campus last fall, the sorority is no longer establishing a Tufts chapter, according to Meaghan Annett, president of Tufts Panhellenic Council.Annett, a senior, said that AGD representatives came to Tufts during the fall of 2015 to ...
The Department of Political Science hosted a Presidential Debate Watch Party on Sept. 26 from 7:45 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in Cohen Auditorium. The screening of the first presidential debate of the 2016 election — between the Democratic presidential nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump — was preceded by a panel discussion. Moderated by Chair of the Political Science Department Deborah Schildkraut, the panel consisted of Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser, Associate Professor of Sociology Sarah Sobieraj, Professor of Political Science Jeff Berry and former "Meet the Press" host David Gregory.
Tufts Visions of Peace hosted "It Won't Stop Until We Talk" in Goddard Chapel on Monday night with representatives from The Parents Circle - Families Forum, an organization advocating for peace in Israel and Palestine that is made up of people who have lost family members to the conflict.The ...
Bryn Gravitt began her tenure as interim director of the Women’s Center on Aug. 22 of this year, following the departure of former director Steph Gauchel in February for a position at the Harvard Divinity School. Gravitt will serve in her capacity until Feb. 2017, or until a long-term candidate ...
If You Can't Take the Heat...A Carmichael Dining Center employee cut his right hand on Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. while preparing food for dinner. Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) and the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to the incident. The wound was bandaged and the employee ...
At the start of the event, students broke into 10 brainstorming groups, according to sophomore Woodrow Nimoityn, who participated in the program as a part of his ELS course.
