Joi Ito, entrepreneur and director of the MIT Media Lab, presented a lecture to the Tufts community titled "How the Internet Has Changed the World: Civic Engagement, Innovation, Learning and Technology Today (and How We Got Here)" as part of the Hitachi Center for Technology and International ...
Tufts Dining Services opened the newly-renovated Commons Marketplace on Jan. 14, the first day of the spring semester, according to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos.“People like the design, colors and layout,” Klos said. She added, however, that since the space could not be made ...
Seeking to engage alumni and students with similar interests, the Career Center implemented the Professional-in-Residence (PIR) program last fall. The program brings alumni from different fields onto campus to talk to students about their career paths.“We added the [PIR] program to provide students ...
The Tufts chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) has voted to disaffiliate from its national organization due to a difference of opinion, the brothers wrote in a statement.“Our long-term goals do not align with those of our national organization,” the brothers wrote in an open letter emailed to the ...
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) is seeking accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), according to SMFADean and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Sarah McKinnon.The SMFA began to approach the process of becoming independently accredited in 2010, ...
The Rohr Chabad House at Tufts set a record for the number of people in attendance at its Friday night Shabbat dinner last week, with over 120 attendees.Chabad Co-president Scott Halperin explained that the high turnout was a result of “easy advertising,” noting the event's enticing sushi ...
The Tufts endowment has grown from $1.47 billion at the end of fiscal year (FY) 2013 to $1.6 billion at the end of FY 2014, according to the university's Annual Financial Report. This increase seems to be part of a larger trend.
The City of Somerville is being rezoned for the first time in 24 years, according to George Proakis, the city's director of planning. Proakis will be leading the rezoning project, which was submitted to the city's Board of Aldermen for approval on Jan. 20.Proakis explained that there is ...
During the recent blizzard that prompted the university to cancel classes and close buildings for two days, Tufts students discovered that both dining halls would stay open despite the closures of other university buildings. According to Director of Dining and Business Services,Patti Klos, many Dining ...
Sorority recruitment is experiencing an upward trend, with 310 potential new members going through recruitment this semester, according to Panhellenic Director of Recruitment Victoria Sengstack. But although recruitment is up, the total number of new members is down, with about 48 new members per sorority, ...
Tufts University's three campuses closed Tuesday and Wednesday due to Winter Storm Juno, a blizzard that the National Weather Service reports brought as much as two feet of snow to the region.A second email alerting the community to Wednesday's closing went out at 6:33 p.m. tonight, noting ...
Through the Tisch Fund for Civic Engagement, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service is beginning to offer mini-grants to Tufts students engaging in student activism and raising awareness of issues involving race and discrimination.According to Alan D. Solomont, the Pierre ...
The Palo Alto-based food delivery startup DoorDash brought its services to Somerville residents and Tufts students this week. The website and accompanying app, founded in Jan. 2013 by three students at Stanford University, acts as a medium between customers and small restaurants without sufficient ...
The sixth annual Trek to Talloires exercise program began on Jan. 1 and will continue until April 10.
The new statue of Tufts' mascot, Jumbo the elephant, is not expected to arrive on campus until April. While the statue was originally scheduled to be installed and unveiled in October of last year, it has been delayed due to construction difficulties, according to Director of Public Relations ...
Tufts community members came together on Tuesday for a panel discussion, entitled "One Goal, Many Paths: Addressing the Challenge of Educational Inequity," which featured three panelists from different educational backgrounds. The event, which took place in the Lincoln Filene Center Rabb ...
The Tufts Dental Facilities Serving Individuals with Disabilities (TDF), the network of dental clinics associated with Tufts University, recently won an award for Outstanding Achievement as part of the 2015William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation and Achievement.The award will be presented ...
President Barack Obama delivered the White House’s annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, laying out a series of proposals and goals for the remaining two years of his term.Speaking to members of both houses of Congress and their guests in the House of Representatives chamber, Obama began ...
Students and colleagues have spent much of the past week mourning and celebrating the life of William Martel, an associate professor of international security studies at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, who passed away Jan. 12 after battling leukemia.Described by Dean of the Fletcher ...
The Office of Sustainability (OOS) recently revamped its Green Office Certification Program and held an awards ceremony on Jan. 8 for offices that took part in the OOS' Green Office Certification Challenge, which ran from August to November 2014.Betsy Byrum, the OOS education and outreach coordinator, ...
