The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine has announced a new degree program in Infectious Disease and Global Health.The program, led by Saul Tzipori, Chair of the Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, and Abhineet Sheoran, the program's new director, was created due to a need to ...
As record amounts of snowfall continue to fall in the Boston area, Tufts' Facilities Services department and Office of Emergency Management (OEM) have been working together to keep the Medford/Somerville campus accessible by preparing for storms and managing snow removal.According to Geoffrey ...
JuniorDanielle Feerst and senior Robert Wallace were recently awarded the 2014 Paul and Elizabeth Montle Prize for Entrepreneurial Achievement for their businesses, AutismSees LLC and Suisey Fanwear, respectively.The prize awards Feerst and Wallace a total sum equivalent to the cost of Tufts tuition, ...
The Dean of Student Affairs Office is collaborating with the University Chaplaincy to host a training on Feb. 13 that will teach participants how to effectively engage in difficult social justice discussions.Forty students and numerous faculty members are expected to participate in the Facilitating ...
Several Tufts students have partnered with the Office of Residential Life and Learning, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center and the Facilities Services Department to increase the number of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.Allison Aaronson, the Women’s Center Representative for ...
Tonight the Tufts Experimental College (ExCollege), the Humanist Chaplaincy at Tufts, the Tufts Freethought Society and the Boston Area Coalition of Reason will host a conference on humanism in the Tufts Interfaith Center.The organizations developed the idea to teach community members about humanism ...
The Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) partnered with the Vertical Ice Climbing Enthusiasts (VICE) to organize and host the sixth annual Vertical Ice Climbing Enthusiasts' Fest (VICEfest) at the TMC Loj in Woodstock, N.H. this past weekend.According to Jeffrey Longcor (LA ’07), VICEfest's primary ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held a special election yesterday in order to fill several positions which were left open at the end of the fall semester.Junior Kathryn Mueller won the only contested position, the Tufts Community Union judiciary (TCU-J) open seat, with 47 percent of the ...
On Jan. 23, USA TODAY published an article ranking Tufts as the second best college offering a degree in fine or studio arts. The list, compiled by College Factual, also includes institutions such as the Pratt Institute, The New School and Yale University.Tufts offers a studio art minor and a five-year ...
The state of Massachusetts received a second-tier rating of “solidifying equality” in the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) first annual State Equality Index (SEI), a state-by-state critique of legislation affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.States in the “solidifying ...
TuftsLife, a student-run website that centralizes information about campus events, classified advertisements and other pertinent information for students, is offline again after recently returning to full function.Senior Tony Cannistra explained that in order to reestablish TuftsLife as an important ...
Tufts has suspended its efforts to purchase an apartment building located at 119 College Ave after learning that the City of Somerville would oppose the university’s proposaldue to its direct conflict with the city’s comprehensive plan, according to Ward 7 Alderman Katjana Ballantyne.The university ...
Mark Brimhall-Vargas, deputy chief diversity officer at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been appointed to the position of chief diversity officer (CDO) and associate provost at Tufts.
International Orientation (IO), one of the five pre-orientation programs Tufts offers for incoming first years, recently changed its name to Global Orientation (GO) as part of a strategy to encourage wider participation in the program.Lauren Kulwicki, the International Center Intern and a graduate ...
A meeting of queer student groups was held on Jan. 25 in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center to brainstorm ways to better serve the queer community at Tufts University, LGBT Center Director Nino Testa said.The discussion focused on three themes, according to sophomore Emily Lansky, ...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will deliver the Class of 2015's Commencement address on May 17. Albright, who served as the first female U.S. Secretary of State under former U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1997 - 2001, will also be awarded with an honorary doctorate of laws ...
Students participating in Tufts’ STEM Ambassadors will begin visiting high school classrooms next Friday to encourage students to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields and study math and science in college.STEM Ambassadors is a joint program between the Center for STEM ...
Programming Board organized Winter Week, a series of winter-themed and seasonal events during the first week of February, for the Tufts student body. The week officially started on Friday, Jan. 30 with the unveiling of a banner to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Mayer Campus Center, and will ...
Tufts Idea Exchange (TEX), a completely student-run organization established at Tufts by a group of synaptic scholars from the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), is transitioning to become a TEDx organization at Tufts this year, according to Stephanie Cleland, a TEDx organizer at Tufts.Cleland, ...
The Tufts Community Union Judiciary's (TCU-J)Judicial Advocacy Program has been newly renovated in order to connect students facing disciplinary action with trained advocates to navigate Tufts' judicial process and offer confidential and objective advice.The program, which was revived last ...
