The environmental studies department has announced its plans to unveil a new Food Systems and Nutrition minor that will be released in the fall of 2016.
Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone was invited to campus to lead a guest lecture in a sophomore political science seminar on Monday morning, as well as a lunch with students.
Tufts’ chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is currently planning a new five-year project in Tanzania, with the goal of improving rural water access.According to Thomas DePalma, a sophomore and project leader, two EWB members will travel to Tanzania in January 2016 for an assessment trip. The ...
Approximately 50 people gathered outside of Gifford House on Halloween evening to call for fair labor practices on Tufts' campuses.The group -- organized by the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) -- included students, custodial workers and their children and a few construction workers from non-Tufts ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) finished its process of hiring two more Area Residence Directors (ARDs) earlier this month.According to Director of ResLife Yolanda King, the two new ARDs are Donisha Thaxton for Area Four (Lewis Hall and South Hall) and Mohamed Barakat for Area ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution allowing students to select their own gender identity and pronouns in all Tufts systems, such as the Student Information System (SIS), during its meeting last night.Before discussing the resolution, Senate first spent some time in passing ...
MONDAY"Fall 2015 Lyon & Bendheim Alumni Lecture Series"Details: As a part of Tufts alumni-established Lyon & Bendheim Alumni Lecture Series, Emanuel Stern (LA '85) will be giving a lecture. Stern is the Managing Principal at the New York City-based real estate investment firm Tall ...
Members of Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) disrupted "Taste of Israel," an annual event hosted by Friends of Israel (FOI) that is intended to introduce students to Israeli culture and food, in the Carmichael Hall lounge last Thursday.Foods such as falafel, hummus, fresh ...
Nearly 300 students participated in the annual PolyHack hackathon at the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC) last Friday night and Saturday morning.The event, hosted by the Tufts Computer Science Exchange (CSX), provided an opportunity for Tufts students from all disciplines to ...
Human Connections, a non-profit organization founded by Tufts alumni, is currently recruiting students for a trip to the Sierra region of Ecuador during spring break this upcoming March.According to faculty trip leader Adam Grenier, the upcoming trip, which is organized by both Human Connections and ...
Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University professor and president emeritus of Harvard University, spoke as a part of the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series to a full crowd at Alumnae Lounge yesterday evening. It was co-sponsored by the Department of Economics and the International ...
Disciplinary action against two Tufts Climate Action (TCA) members for their involvement in the sit-in protest in University President Anthony Monaco’s office last April was reduced following an appeal hearing last Friday.
Tufts University School of Medicine's student-run health education program the Sharewood Project completed a two-week-long online silent auction yesterday.The Sharewood Project also provides free healthcare to underserved clients, according to Sharewood General Project Director Ariel Lefland.“It ...
Dr. Craig Best will assume his new role as president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center’s 500-doctor Physicians Organization (PO) in January, a year and a half after Tufts Medical Center started its search to fill the position.Best, who is currently the medical director, business development lead ...
The Tufts administration’s hiring of non-union workers and companies for university construction projects has been challenged by protest efforts since this summer in the form of flyers, signs and, in the past two weeks, mobile billboard trucks on campus.These actions have been organized by the ...
TUESDAY"Larry Summers: Tisch Distinguished Speaker Series"Details: Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University and the President Emeritus of Harvard, will speak as part of the Tisch College distinguished speaker series. Summers, who was also the ...
Students from Tufts Students for National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), a chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, joined a total of approximately 20 people to protest at a rally for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Tyngsborough, Mass. on Oct. 16.According to Tufts Students for ...
Enrollment in the center has indeed decreased dramatically over the past year. According to a document circulated in a meeting with Tufts School Arts and Sciences Dean James Glaser last August, enrollment dropped from its full capacity of 82 under TEDCC to 68 total children immediately after the transition. Currently, Bright Horizons Teele Square enrolls only 54 children—28 slots under the center’s average capacity.
An audience of about 60 gathered to hear Mark Feeney, a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Boston Globe, speak at the second installment of the second annual Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s “Free Thinkers” series in Barnum Hall last night.
A panel of union organizers addressed students and community members Tuesday night about union organization at Tufts. The talk covered the university's decision to renegotiate custodial staff contracts that garnered widespread attention last spring.The panel was hosted by Rubén Stern, director ...
