The Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) two weeks ago announced the appointment of Michael Peznola as its executive director, a new position. As the first executive director of the IGL, Peznola will focus on handling administrative tasks associated with the institute and the more than 20 programs under ...
Mattress raised above their heads, four female Tufts students hoisted uphill the bed that one had slept in the night before."Well, that was my exercise for the month," senior Ruby Vail quipped as she set the mattress down inside Tisch Library.A #CarryThatWeight poster tacked on its side, the ...
Megan Andelloux, or Oh Megan, spoke to Tufts students in Cohen Auditorium on Monday. The event, sponsored by Tufts VOX, focused on sexual consent, communication and cultural norms. Oh Megan discussed the pros and cons of hormonal birth control, as well as hookup culture and the need for sex positivity ...
Venture for America (VFA), a two-year program that places graduates into entrepreneurial settings, recently selected senior John Docal and second-year master's candidate Michael Weinstein as fellows. Docal said that he and Weinstein are the first Tufts students so far who will participate in ...
Tufts' second fall hackathon, PolyHack, brought over 200 participants to 196 Boston Ave. on Friday evening. The 24-hour event was organized by seniorsSam Purcell, James Downer and Brendan Conron and sophomoreTom Wang.One of the primary goals of the hackathon is the building of applications, ...
Several Somerville polling locations have changed for six of the 21 voting precincts for the upcoming Election Day on Nov. 4. According to Elections Department Chairman Nicholas Salerno in a Sept. 30 Somerville Journal article, locations were changed to adapt to the increase in the number of registered ...
Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius spoke about her role in implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Cabot Auditorium last night as part of the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series.Sebelius answered questions predominantly about the ACA from Alan ...
Car RaidAt 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 16, a student alerted the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) of the theft of some items from his car. On Oct. 12, the student parked the car behind 134 Professor's Row. When the student returned to his car on Oct. 16, he noticed that a faceplate and a subwoofer ...
Tufts fraternity Theta Chi hosted its first-ever Zombie Run, a 4 km fundraising run starting from Fletcher Field, winding through campus and ending at the Res Quad, to raise money and awareness for the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute this past Sunday.The event attracted over 100 ...
Tufts’ Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) hosted its 19th annual semi-formal Las Vegas-themed fundraiser LCS Vegas at the Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel on Friday night.This year, funds raised from the LCS Vegas event will benefit RESPOND, a local domestic violence agency, and the Community Action ...
Sorority Kappa Alpha Theta hosted its first annual Thetathon, a four-hour dance marathon, on Saturday night at the Cousens Gymnasium’s Carzo Cage. The event raised money for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), an organization that designates volunteers to protect children as they go through ...
Tufts Culinary Society hosted its third annual Culture Crawl, an event featuring foods from a variety of cultural organizations on campus, on Saturday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room. Thirteen different culture clubs and houses provided dishes to over 400 students, according to Tufts Culinary ...
Tufts Medical Center (MC) has recently implemented a number of preventative measures and protocols in response to the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has also received much attention in the United States following a few reported cases, the most recent of which was diagnosed on Thursday ...
Two students, Christopher Kuhner and Yimin Zhang, recently launched a Tufts chapter of United Against Inequities in Disease (UAID), a nationwide organization that seeks to empower "students and communities to eliminate health inequities," according to its website.Sophomores Kuhner and Zhang spearheaded ...
When and Where: 5 - 6:30 p.m., Cabot ASEAN Auditorium
In an exceptionally short meeting this week, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate listened to reports by its various committees and reviewed the allocation of funds to a number of student organizations.The meeting kicked off with a call to order and a rundown of updates from each of Senate’s ...
The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded a $1 million grant to The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in order to help bridge the disparity between the work done in academia and the work done in policy over the course of two years.The Carnegie Corporation initially noticed that people in the ...
GlobeMed at Tuftswill partner with other Boston community organizations for the Rally for the Right to Health on the Boston Common on Sunday. The rally supports a single-payer health care system in Massachusetts and better access to primary care across the world. The rally will also help raise ...
Somerville Food Day Weekend began yesterday with a Mobile Market Party at 268 Powderhouse Blvd. and will continue through the weekend with music, activities and food education as part of today's fourth annual Food Day nationwide celebration.The weekend’s events are organized by Shape Up Somerville, ...
Tufts community members gathered yesterday evening for a public lecture and interdisciplinary discussion of the Ebola virus and its recent outbreak in West Africa. The event, titled “Ebola Outbreak: Causes and Consequences at a Global Scale,” was part of the Tufts’ One Health Series on Ebola ...
