This summer, after the Office of Undergraduate Admissions released its college supplement questions for the class of 2018, one prompt in particular ignited a frenzy in the media, among publications including the Huffington Post, Good Morning America, The Atlantic and TIME Newsfeed.
Students celebrated Tufts first annual National Dialogue on Race Day with a panel presentation in Cabot Auditorium last night at 7 p.m.
After a stable first year following its inception last fall, the Africana studies program has returned to the Hill for its second year with a new advisor, a planned introductory course and increased support.
Glamour Magazine, the New England Wildlife Center, Google, J.P. Morgan Chase, NASA, the AARP these are only a handful of the prestigious companies and nonprofits where Tufts students have held internships, both paid and unpaid.
Despite initial resistance to changes surrounding the first school-sponsored event of the year, organizers and attendees alike generally considered last Friday evenings Fall Gala a success.
A revised university policy designed to limit judicial consequences for students under the influence of drugs or alcohol who require medical assistance for themselves or others took effect at the beginning of this year.
Kelly Sims Gallagher, associate professor of energy and environmental policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, took over the position of Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) this summer from Professor of International Environmental Policy William Moomaw after he stepped down in June.
Ray Jackendoff, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and Seth Merrin professor of philosophy, was named the 2014 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize on Aug. 2. Jackendoff is the first theoretical linguist to win the prize awarded by the Cognitive Science Society.
Just a stones throw from the Tufts campus, Stop & Shop opened a new store location at 105 Alewife Brook Parkway, its second in Somerville, on June 21.
Tufts announced on Aug. 1 that Rave Alert has replaced Send Word Now as the new Tufts Emergency Alert System due to the formers more reliable and user-friendly features, according to Director of Emergency Management Geoffrey Bartlett.
WMFO News Director and DJ Dean Wallace passed away last month at age 70 after more than a decade of broadcasting to the Tufts and wider WMFO community.
