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 ...
Economist Dr. Raj Chetty spoke at this year's Wellington Burham Lecture about equality of opportunity in America at 51 Winthrop St. on Oct. 15. The lecture, titled "Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: New Evidence and Policy Lessons," was sponsored by the Tufts Department ...
There have been more instances of reported bicycle theft so far this year, compared to total thefts in previous years.According to statistics provided by Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), there have have been 23 reported bicycle thefts since January, an increase from the 20 reported thefts ...
Balance Your Life (BYL) hosted Caitlin Boyle, founder of the Operation Beautiful movement, as the keynote speaker for a body positivity presentation in Goddard Chapel on the evening of Oct. 15.Boyle's Operation Beautiful is a movement that strives "to end negative self-talk" by leaving ...
Dr. James Munro, an assistant professor of molecular biology at the Tufts Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, was recently granted the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award of $1.5 million to study the transmission of Ebola.According to Dr. Ravi Basavappa, a ...
Tufts Ornithological Society (TOS), which held its inaugural meeting on Oct. 15, is a newly founded group for students interested in ornithology. According to TOS founder and President Henry Stevens, the group has already generated student interest, with 18 interested people contacting Stevens within ...
Medford mayoral candidates Stephanie Muccini Burke and Robert Penta faced off in the city’s first debate of its kind in 28 years at the Chevalier Theater on Oct. 15.
Tufts Black Alumni Association (TBAA) held a launch event on the evening of Oct. 10 to mark the second year of the group’s mentorship program, which aims to prepare students for the professional world through connections with alumni.The event took place in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room and ...
The Office of Student Life will hold an Off-Campus Housing (OCH) Fair this Saturday afternoon to provide information to students about living off-campus, following a related information session held by the Sophomore Class Council last week.A number of different officials, including city inspectors, ...
The university has withdrawn an honorary degree and children's media award from former stand-up comedian Bill Cosby, following revelations this summer that Cosby admitted in 2005 court documents that he gave drugs to women with whom he wanted to have sex.In an email to the Tufts community yesterday, ...
Members of the Tufts Debate Society won the Yale Inter-Varsity (IV) Debate Tournament, held at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. on Oct. 4. Two other members also reached the final round of the Harvard American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) Tournamentlast weekend.First-years John Goulandris ...
Lewis Hall is undergoing inspection by Tufts Facilities for cracks in the dormitory’s roof, which will be replaced during the summer as a part of larger on-campus construction and renovation projects.This week’s inspection, which started Tuesday and ends today, follows a previous inspection conducted ...
Debating International Relations and Exploring Current Trends (DIRECT), a new student group devoted to international relations (IR), was formed this fall in order to explore global current events and facilitate discussion using international relations theories.The group, started by sophomores Jacob ...
The annual Asian Health Symposium, this year entitled "Together: Strengthening the Health of Chinatown," will be held at the university's School of Medicine this Friday.The symposium is hosted by the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Addressing Disparities ...
Tufts Students for National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), a university-based chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, was formed at Tufts this fall to focus on political organization and on-campus activism for women's reproductive rights.According to junior Samantha Berg, president ...
TUESDAY"Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution"Details: Award-winning Egyptian-American feminist writer and commentator Mona Eltahawy will be speaking about Egypt, the Islamic world and women's rights.When and Where: 6 p.m., Room 104, Barnum HallSponsors: Center ...
Members of the Somerville community gathered for the annual Domestic Violence Vigil outside the Somerville Public Safety Building in Union Square last Wednesday evening.The vigil, held to remember those who lost their lives to domestic violence, included a candlelit parade through the streets of Union ...
Tufts was one of five colleges and universities that received this year’s national New York Life Higher Education Civic Engagement Award, along with $20,000 worth of scholarships in an internship program. University President Anthony Monaco and Alan Solomont (A'70), the dean of Tisch College ...
History Professor Daniel Mulholland has returned to Tufts as an adjunct professor this semester to teach a history course on Marxism, following his retirement in spring 2014, in order to fill what he perceives as a missing niche in the Department of History.Mulholland, who began teaching at Tufts ...
Dr. Helen Boucher, director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the Tufts Medical Center, was named to President Barack Obama’s newly established Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.According to Boucher, who is also an associate professor at Tufts, ...
