A Tufts chapter of the nonprofit Petey Greene Program, an organization focused on supplementing education in local correctional institutions with the help of graduate and undergraduate students, will make its debut on campus this fall. Amanda Borquaye, who hopes to open conversation about the ...
The Tufts University School of Medicine will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of its M.D./M.B.A. program later this year.Harris Berman, the dean of the School of Medicine, said the M.D./M.B.A. program began in 1995 as a way to recognize the need for physicians who were going to be managers in ...
The fourth annual Tufts Century Ride brought together approximately 70 students, faculty and alumni from the Tufts community on a bike ride last Friday.This year's ride was organized by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris and his office in collaboration with the Tufts Cycling Team and ...
A new prayer room has opened in Curtis Hall this fall to provide a space for ritual Muslim prayers during weekdays.The space's proximity to other academic buildings makes it easily accessible, allowing support for student practices and rituals, according to Muslim Chaplain Celene Ibrahim.“It ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night to tackle its first set of supplementary funding requests from student groups.Senior Brian Tesser, president of TCU Senate, opened Sunday’s meeting by welcoming the three newly elected trustee representatives and updating the Senate on general ...
Early on the morning of May 31, the university’s emergency alert system notified the community about a stabbing in the fraternity house of Delta Tau Delta (DTD). Since then, the house has been vacant and information about the incident and its investigation has been scant. According to DTD president ...
Hopeful candidates for open TCU Senate seats will turn in their candidacy petitions today in order to become verified as official candidates and begin campaigning for next Wednesday's election.The available positions include seven seats for first-year Senate representatives, five seats on the ...
Members of the Tufts community gathered yesterday afternoon to commemorate the life of James G. Ennis, a longtime Tufts sociology professor, at the Granoff Family Hillel Center.The memorial ceremony was officiated by university RabbiJeffrey Summit.Ennis, who was 62, passed away unexpectedly after ...
The Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) recently changed its Loj group use policy, requiring student groups to sign up with a specified number of bunk beds and pay as a unit instead of as individuals.The Loj, located in Woodstock, N.H., is owned by Tufts and run by TMC, according to the TMC website. It houses 48 ...
The Africana Center is holding the inaugural Africana Festival under the theme "We Are Africana" on the Tisch Library Roof this Saturday afternoon.The festival will be sponsored by the recently created Africana Advisory Alliance, an unofficial group formed to connect black affinity groups ...
Tufts remains one of the top 30 schools in the country this year, according to the annual college rankings lists from U.S. News & World Report and Forbes Magazine.The university maintained its No. 27 position on the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best National Universities” list on Sept. ...
Sixty Tufts undergraduates gathered this past weekend for this year's inaugural Tufts Scramble, a two-day on-campus innovation training and brainstorm session, at 51 Winthrop St.The event, which took place Saturday and Sunday, was co-hosted by the Tufts Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies Program ...
For the first time, Tufts students will have classes on Columbus Day, Oct. 12, due to the late start to the semester and student input.While fall classes are usually not held on Columbus Day, Veterans Day or Thanksgiving, Secretary of the Faculty in the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences Jillian ...
Tufts students living off-campus must provide their local addresses to the university on Student Information Services (SIS) in compliance with a City of Somerville ordinance that went into effect on Sept. 1.The Ordinance Regulating University Accountability, passed by the Somerville Board of Aldermen in ...
Returning members of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) who participated in last semester's sit-in protest in Ballou Hall from April 22 to April 24 were placed on probation over the summer recess.Students were notified individually of the disciplinary action on May 15, a week after final exams ended. ...
TEDxSomerville is hosting its third TED talk event, under the theme "Reinvent," in two weeks in Cohen Auditorium.The event from the independent Somerville TEDx chapter will feature 14 speakers from the Somerville area on Sunday, Sept. 27 from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. According to Devin Bramhall, ...
Biomedical and mechanical engineers from Tufts published research this summer that could make inkjet printing a more effective tool for synthesizing medical technologies, with developments for a platform that allows 3D printing for liquid silk.The study, published on June 16 in Advanced Materials ...
Tufts Student Services made several changes to its infrastructure this past summer, reflecting an ongoing effort by the university to improve the quality of assistance and advising provided by Student Services.According to Dean of Student Services Paul Stanton, Student Services has made changes in ...
A crowd packed into the ASEAN Auditorium for the "Inside the Iran Nuclear Deal: Pros, Cons, and Possible Outcomes" discussion last Thursday evening. The event featured three speakers: former National Security Advisor to Israel's Prime Minister Jacob Amidror, former Undersecretary of ...
Rather than collect tickets inside the building as they did last year, event staff processed attendees outside, which increased efficiency, according to Tello. Event staff also added portable bathrooms outside the venue, as well as more ventilation to keep the temperature down.
