Professor of Practice in the Department of Drama and Dance Jennifer Burton and the students of her Advanced Production Seminar are working to bring under-told stories of American women to light through a multimedia project called "Half the History." The goal of the production, which combines ...
Boris Muñoz, Venezuelan journalist and 2010 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, spoke yesterday about the freedom of the press in Venezuela. The event, titled "Freedom of the Press in Latin America: A Conversation with Boris Muñoz," was hosted by Tufts ...
A group of around 20 Tufts students, almost all dressed in black and wearing keffiyehs, came together to protest a lecture by Israeli Defense Forces Lieutenant Colonel Eran Shamir-Borer during his visit to campus on Monday morning for a lecture sponsored by the International Security Studies Program ...
Independent of the university-wide Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force, Tufts Inter-Greek Council (IGC) held its first Greek Life Anti-Sexual Assault Initiative Task Force meeting on Oct. 31, with a second meeting planned for Friday. Members from seven of the 17 Greek organizations at Tufts ...
The Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center (MC) will soon launch a full follow-up study to examine the effects of a new therapeutic treatment for bipolar disorder -- Bipolar IN Order -- after completing a pilot study last year.The Bipolar IN Order treatment begins with an eight-week online ...
Curtis Hall, located at 474 Boston Avenue, has undergone a number of changes over the past semester, including a shortening of hours for the Brown and Brew Coffee House and a series of structural renovations still in progress.
In a joint effort between Tufts and Medford High School (MHS) on Oct. 16,10 Tufts graduate research students in the Departments of Chemistry, Biology and Biomedical Engineering presented their doctoral research projects to MHS students in the first-ever Reverse Science Fair.The Tufts graduate students ...
Tufts Mock Trial (TMT)placed fourth out of 24 teams competing at the Great American Mock Trial Invitational (GAMTI), which was hosted by the University of Virginia in Washington, D.C. over the weekend of Nov. 1. The Tufts team finished with a score of 8.5 out of 12 and received the most individual ...
The Tufts Intersections Project, a new initiative sponsored by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Students, has been launched to facilitate conversations in safe spaces for students with meetings throughout ...
MONDAYQueer Bystander Intervention Workshop: Reducing Sexual Misconduct in the LGBTQ CommunityDetails: Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center Graduate Assistant Rachael Pozerski, Sexual Misconduct Prevention Specialist Alexandra Donovan and Shannon Regan from Lesley University will present ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate spent a large part of its weekly meeting on Sunday night hotly debating an appeal from the recently approved Tufts Thai Student Association for funding that the TCU Allocations Board had previously denied.The Thai Student Association, which had asked the Allocations ...
Rebecca Irwin, associate professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth College, spoke about the impacts invasive species have on native populations during a lecture yesterday for the Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn Program. During the event, which was sponsored by both the Environmental ...
National Political Columnist for Yahoo News and former Chief Political Correspondent for The New York Times Magazine Matt Bai (LA ’90) hosted a lecture for Tufts community members yesterday evening in Alumnae Lounge. The dinner discussion was centered around his latest book,“All the Truth Is Out: ...
Diane Souvaine, vice provost for research and professor of computer science, was appointed to a second term this fall on the National Science Board (NSB), which will last until 2020. She was appointed to her first term in 2008. According to Souvaine, the NSB’s principal roles include formulating ...
Amid an ongoing reformation of Tufts’ sexual misconduct adjudication process and a nationwide spotlight on colleges' handling of sexual assault, last night's Take Back the Night event aimed to provide a safe space for survivors of sexual assault at Tufts.Six months ago,U.S. Department of ...
Fog FiascoAt 7:48 p.m. on Oct. 25, the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a fire alarm in Curtis Hall. Upon arriving, officers discovered that a student had been filming a movie in the rear stairwell, and the fog machine he had been using for special effects had set off the ...
Sharad Sagar, CEO and founder of the non-profit Dexterity Global, was nominated for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list this fall.Sagar, a junior, founded Dexterity Global in 2008 with the goal of democratizing education and making it accessible for all children in South Asia.The mission of Dexterity Global ...
Tufts Medical Center (MC) and Lowell General Hospital have finalized an agreement to create a new health care system, Wellforce, to provide more integrated and coordinated care to patients at both hospitals, according to an announcement last month.In an Oct. 22 press release, CEO of Lowell General Normand ...
Two researchers from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences began a collaboration in October to investigate the environmental causes of breast cancer.Funded by a three-year, $5 million grant from the Art beCAUSE Breast Cancer Foundation, the research is intended to find out how so many ...
Starting next fall, community health will be offered as a primary major at Tufts, rather than a secondary double major as it is now, according to an Oct. 24 announcement by the Community Health Program.The change has been in the works for years due to student and faculty demand, according to Community ...
