The Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (DIWG), chaired by Chief Diversity Officer Mark Brimhall-Vargas, has been working this semester toward greater faculty and staff diversity, more public data related to diversity and new affinity groups for minority and women students, faculty and staff.According ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) is considering new strategies to address problems with the housing lottery system in light of cases of housing lottery fraud this past spring.According to Director of ResLife Yolanda King, last semester, some students last spring applied for ...
Tufts Recycles! will launch a new initiative to bring composting to all on-campus apartments at a composting education event this Friday at the Mayer Campus Center.The event, which will be held in collaboration with the Tufts Sustainability Collective, will take place from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room ...
Three faculty members at the School of Medicine were awarded Dean’s Medals -- given to individuals who have made extraordinary accomplishments in the medical field -- on Nov. 5.The recipients of the awards were Te-Wen Chang, a former associate professor of public health and community medicine; Sherwood ...
Former National Security Council (NSC) Advisor Stephen Hadley gave a talk Monday evening in the ASEAN auditorium titled “A Challenge of the Middle East in Flames” as part of the Dr. Maurice S. Segal Lecture series.
Tufts students and community members gathered to hear Dr. Temple Grandin, a lecturer on autism and animal handling, give a talk titled "My Life with Animals" in Cohen Auditorium Monday evening. Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and a consultant for ...
Tufts Relay for Life (RFL) has raised over $6,000 for the American Cancer Society (ACS) in preparation for its main relay event in April following the group's November kick-off event.The fundraising effort will culminate with the spring RFL event, which will take place from April 8 to 9 at ...
A research team with the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development has been providing feedback to Healthy Families Massachusetts (HFM), a publicly funded program run by the Children's Trust Massachusetts to support young, first-time mothers.The researchers are part of the Tufts ...
Members of Tufts' janitorial staff and Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) have reported that janitors are being overworked and that the cleanliness of campus buildings has declined as a result of the university's custodial reorganization and janitorial layoffs, which occurred between June and ...
The Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora (RCD) held their second annual workshop, a symposium on “Social Movements and the Black Intellectual Tradition,” at Breed Memorial Hall at 51 Winthrop St. on the afternoon of Nov. 20.
The Tufts Ethics Bowl team beat out 26 teams to claim the winning title at the Northeast Regional Ethics Bowl competition in Patchogue, New York on Nov. 14.The competition, hosted by St. Joseph’s College, included teams from schools such as the U.S. Naval Academy, Salisbury University, Dartmouth ...
Congressman Seth Moulton(D-Mass.), who represents the 6th district of Massachusetts, spoke at a roundtable discussion about the state of American politics in the Rabb Room last Monday afternoon.The discussion was hosted by Tufts Cooperation and Innovation in Citizenship (CIVIC), Tufts Alliance ...
MONDAY"An Evening with Temple Grandin: My Life with Animals"Details: Dr. Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science and lecturer on autism and humane animal handling, will be giving a talk about the role that animals have had on her life and work. Grandin is also an author, activist ...
Students from Tufts Amnesty International joined hundreds of Amnesty International members and activists who attended the 39th annual Northeast Regional Conference at Boston University on Nov. 7.According to President of Tufts Amnesty Stina Stannik, Amnesty International is the largest grassroots human ...
Discussions are currently underway to implement a Mindfulness House, a potential on-campus special interest house based around the Buddhist concept of mindfulness. The project, spearheaded by junior Khuyen Bui, would allow for a maximum of 10 people.Bui explained that he wanted to create a Mindfulness ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate agreed to provide funding to continue the Late Night Dining program after discussing changes to campus shuttle routes and supplementary funding requests at its Sunday night meeting.TCU President Brian Tesser opened the meeting with updates on the ad-hoc residential ...
Almost 100 members of the Tufts community, mainly undergraduate students, participated in a hand-washing study over a 28-day period in October and November for research in ebola outbreak prevention.According to first-year Ph.D. student Marlene Wolfe, who is working on the study, the purpose ...
Leaders of Wednesday’s march to Porter Square, organized under the name of #thethreepercent, released a more detailed version of their demands of the Tufts administration yesterday. The demands, which were first announced in the Mayer Campus Center during the demonstration, include increasing the ...
Faculty in the Department of Romance Languages approved a new Portuguese minor on Wednesday amid declining student interest in the department as a whole.The Portuguese minor, which will become available for students next semester, may help maintain enrollment in Portuguese courses, according to Portuguese ...
Professor Fatima El-Tayeb of University of California at San Diego gave a lecture on the intersectionality of race, religion and sexuality, as well as the persistence of racism in Europe, at the Interfaith Center Tuesday evening.The Nov. 17 lecture, titled “Queer Life of Diaspora,” was hosted ...
