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With an eventful academic year winding down and five years as University President under his belt, Anthony Monaco sat down with the Daily to discuss some of the major issues and events on campus.Tufts Daily: What did you think about this academic year as a whole, and what are your thoughts moving forward?Anthony ...
The scheduling of today's final exams was disrupted following a fire in a vehicle outside of Tufts Health Service around 4:30 a.m. this morning, and the discovery at the building entrance of a note with bomb threats to four different campus locations. As law enforcement secured, evacuated and cleared the four targeted buildings — Cabot Intercultural Center, Braker Hall, Cohen Auditorium and Tisch Library — exams of three math courses and classes taught in the G and E blocks in the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) were postponed and rescheduled to Friday.
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At approximately 4:30 a.m. a vehicle outside of Health Service near 124 Professors Row caught fire and a note indicating bomb threats to Cabot Hall, Braker Hall, Cohen Auditorium and Tisch Library was discovered. All affected buildings have since been cleared by law enforcement, and there is an ongoing criminal investigation.
Faculty for Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) passed a three-part resolution related to climate change during an all-faculty meeting in Ballou Hall during the afternoon of May 6. The resolution called for action on climate change — the first two proposals concerning divestment ...
Following the signing of a merger agreement between Tufts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) in March, details on the union between the institutions will be settled and implemented by the end of July to provide students from both schools a more diverse set of course offerings. Administrators ...
Tufts will rename South Hall as Bernard Harleston Hall next fall in honor of Harleston, former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the first African American tenure-track professor at Tufts.University President Anthony Monaco recommended to the Board of Trustees that a residence hall be dedicated ...
Claudia Megan "Meg" Urry (A '77), director of the Yale Center for Physics and Astrophysics, presented parts of her personal research and discussed her experience as a woman in the field of physics last night for the sixth Kathryn A. McCarthy Lecture in Physics at the Collaborative ...
Following a die-in protest outside the Tufts School of Medicine’s Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) on Friday, April 1, protestors continue to demand disclosure from the CSDD on the pharmaceutical companies that fund researcher Joseph DiMasi’s work. At press time, the CSDD has ...
Students from Tufts For Ecuador have been working to mobilize the Tufts community to assist relief efforts in Ecuador in the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 16, which has caused upwards of 650 deaths. The group's first fundraising event, which raised $2,000, served as the ...
Because most of the attendees are based internationally, Glaser is scheduled to update the attendees on the current state of the Medford/Somerville campus and will discuss the university's continuing international efforts.
Life's No PicnicThe Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report of a stolen picnic table behind the Eliot-Pearson Children's School at 9:30 a.m. on April 20. The table went missing at some point during the previous week. This case is currently under investigation.Foul PlayTUPD ...
A new six-course Environmental Studies (ENVS) minor on food and nutrition systems was approved last month for launch in the fall 2016 semester as part of the ENVS program, which currently includes the five-track ENVS major and the environmental science and policy minor offered to engineering ...
The Tufts Black Alumni Association (TBAA) launched a demo of its new website at a Boston regional alumni event held in the Remis Sculpture Court last Friday. TBAA President Biodun Kajopaiye (LA ’07) said the new website, developed by Tufts alumna Kristen Ransom (LA '13), was created to make space ...
"Since her arrival to Tufts, Dr. Daniels has extended her time and expertise to the Africana community in a variety of settings," Moore said. "We are looking forward to building a strong relationship with Dr. Daniels as we work collectively to identify workshops and trainings that will address the concerns and needs of not only students of color but faculty and staff as well."
Approximately 30 current members of Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) and 10 to 15 TEMS alumni celebrated the program's 30th anniversary on Sunday afternoon at the Breed Memorial Hall. The event, which celebrated the program's history and accomplishments since its start in the 1980s, commemorated the roots of the program with photos and memories.
James Glaser, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and Jianmin Qu, dean of the School of Engineering, sent out an email update to Tufts undergraduate students on April 12, detailing the projected increased tuition and fees for the 2016-17 academic year in an effort to help family financial planning.Undergraduate ...
Edward Dugger Jr. (E ‘41), a record-setting track athlete and mechanical engineer, was honored by a crowd of 50 people last Friday evening in a ceremony co-hosted by the Africana Center and Athletes of Color. The ceremony was held as a re-dedication of the the plaque placed in the alumnus' ...
MONDAY“The Locket: Film Screening & Lecture by Prof. David Bordwell”Details:David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will give a lecture, "The Switcheroo Tradition: Narrative Innovations in 1940s Hollywood,” following ...
