Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate has twice passed a resolution to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day on all Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) academic calendars, but the institution of this change remains up to vote by the entire faculty voting body in March.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy hosted various panels and workshops as part of its third annual Innovation Week, which ran from Jan. 29 through Feb. 4.Innovation Week was themed “Think Local, Act Local,” with an emphasis on the importance of local stakeholders in technological, entrepreneurial ...
Two hundred students accepted bids following formal Panhellenic sorority recruitment from Jan. 27 to Jan. 31. During the formal recruitment period, students attended Open Parties, a Philanthropy Night and a Preference Night consecutively before Bid Day, where they received a bid to one of the four ...
The Tufts Maker Network hosted its first Weekend of Making, which involved a series of do-it-yourself (DIY) workshops, on Jan. 30 and 31. According to the Maker Network website, the two-day program, which emphasized student-driven crafting as a learning mechanism, was held at the Maker Studio on ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate discussed project updates and supplementary funding requests from multiple student groups at its meeting this Sunday evening.TCU Senate President Brian Tesser began the proceedings by discussing a meeting last Friday where students spoke to university trustees ...
MONDAY “Master Class and Q&A with Tufts Alum Joel Perez”Details: Broadway actor Joel Perez (LA '08) will lead a Question & Answer session with students, along with teaching a Master Class. Perez currently stars in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of “Fun Home.”When ...
According to CIVICCo-leader Ben Hoffman, he and Co-leader Austin Kane planned the trip to engage college students in what they consider to be the most important political process.
According to Deputy Director of TII Dr. Lauren Linton, she and TII Project Administrator Christina Fogarasi, who works in student engagement and community outreach, organized the event.
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) visited Tisch College on Feb. 5 to reveal his insights on foreign policy, discuss his experiences in various governmental offices and share his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election. The discussion, which had about 40 undergraduate and graduate students in attendance, ...
Tufts Culinary Society hosted Dr. Carla Martin who offered a presentation titled “Chocolate, Culture and the Politics of Food” and chocolate samples in Pearson Hall last night. Martin is the founder and executive director of the Fine Cacao and Chocolate Institute and a lecturer in the department ...
Several protestors from the Tufts Armenian Club participated in a national "Stain of Denial" protest in the Mayer Campus Center yesterday afternoon to urge recognition of the Armenian Genocide.During the two-hour long protest, students displayed posters with expressions such as "Stop ...
UPDATE: Since the publication of this article, the administration has sent an email out to the student body announcing that these two minor programs have been paused until further notice. The story has been updated accordingly.The lingustics and cognitive brain sciences (CBS) minors have been suspended ...
The Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and a coalition of on-campus political organizations launched Jumbo Vote 2016 this semester, a new initiative to increase voting among Tufts students.Leaders of several on-campus organizations and Tisch College faculty members met on Jan. 27 to ...
Tufts has banned the usage, storage and charging of hoverboards on all three university campuses following a Jan. 12 email announcement to the Tufts community.
Melted PlasticThe fire alarm went off at the Science and Technology Center on Jan. 4 at 2:30 p.m. A staff member was in the machine shop cutting a plastic piece, which began melting and appears to have created some smoke, triggering the smoke detector. The Medford Fire Department looked at the ...
As the fall semester concluded, the Tufts Muslim Student Association (MSA), the University Chaplaincy and Tufts Hillel collected approximately 40 boxes of donations through an Interfaith Clothing Drive for Syrian Refugees. These collected items were sent to NuDay Syria, a non-government organization ...
Last night, Sister Mary Scullion of Philadelphia discussed her experiences advocating for the homeless through Project HOME, an organization she co-founded in 1989. The lecture was held in the Cohen Auditorium as a part of Tufts Hillel's annualMerrin Moral Voices Lecture Series.The lecture began ...
WEDNESDAY"Thrills, Spills and Chills of Post-Disaster Planning in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward"Details: Ken Reardon, director of the graduate program in Urban Planning and Community Development at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, will be speaking about post-disaster planning ...
The International Center welcomed Neriliz Soto González as its third International Student and Scholar Advisor on Jan. 21. In this role, González focuses on programming events and immigration advising.González explained that her goals as a new advisor include running different cultural programs, ...
The Tisch Scholars Program at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service will alter its curriculum by extending its current required course to a full-year foundational class and by offering academic credit for community work in a diversified group of community placements beginning ...
