Over 250 people participated for the first-ever two-day Conference on Gender and International Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy this past Friday and Saturday.
Tufts Climate Action (TCA) held its first Reality Week, a series of events focusing on the climate crisis and climate justice, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 amid United Nations (UN) climate negotiations between world leaders in Paris.Reality Week included a panel discussion, a screening of a climate documentary ...
Several uphill dorms temporarily lost heat and hot water on Dec. 1, following a failure in the main power plant on the Medford/Somerville campus.The affected buildings included Wren Hall, West Hall, Hill Hall, Houston Hall, Miller Hall and Carmichael Hall, and students living in those halls were notified ...
Over 40 students attended Sunday night's TCU Senate meeting to hear senators discuss two major resolutions on Indigenous People’s Day and solidarity with #TheThreePercent. Some of the students held signs with messages such as "#TuftsWithTheThree."The first resolution called for the ...
Tufts juniors Lydia Collins and Bahar Ostadan founded Facial Unwanted Hair Removal (FUHR), Tufts’ first ever student-run hair removal company, in early October. The business operates out of a study room in the Tisch Library and has served over 30 customers to date.
The Interfraternity Council (IFC) voted not to bring the fraternity Pi Kappa Phi into the Tufts Greek community at this time after an hour-long deliberation last Wednesday.“Until we make progress in [inclusivity] and continue to grow in terms of safety and responsibility, the IFC executive board ...
MONDAY"Synaptic Scholars Fireside Chat Series: Pedagogy in the Natural Sciences"Details: Joshua Kritzer, professor in the Department of Chemistry, and David Hammer, professor in the Department of Education, will speak about effective and innovative teaching methods in the natural sciences ...
Padraig O’Malley, professor at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in Boston, will receive the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award and give a lecture tomorrow evening in ASEAN Auditorium.O'Malley, professor of peace and reconciliation at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy ...
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 ...
