Not every Tufts professor remembers a time when Jackson College was listed on female students' diplomas or when the Hill lacked Tufts Dance Collective performances. Associate Professor and Director of Dance Alice Trexler has seen it all. After 34 years at Tufts, she plans to retire in May.
We all want to be one in a million. How about one in a billion? You could be a forensic ornithologist! What? Well, in this age of CSI, anything with "forensic" in the title is irresistibly sexy.
Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University Steven Pinker on Friday will deliver this year's Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award keynote address at the 26th annual Norris and Margery Bendetson Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) symposium.
A new university-wide Sexual Violence Working Group, spearheaded by the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO), will meet throughout the semester to address sexual assault prevention and awareness among students and to make current university policies regarding sexual assault readily available and visible.
The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine earlier this month unveiled a partnership with Worcester Technical High School (WTHS) in Worcester, Mass., to open a low-cost primary care clinic for animals on the high school's campus this spring.
Tufts Friends of Israel held fundraisers around campus this week to raise money for the Save A Child's Heart (SACH) campaign, working in conjunction with Zeta Psi fraternity, Tufts Hillel and the Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS).
In a striking rise over 2010 figures, crime rates spiked by 92 percent at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Davis Square station in 2011.
Tufts' Lecture and Entertainment Board has booked Lewis Black for its Spring Comedy Show, Entertainment Board co−Chair Charlotte Karrlsson−Willis told the Daily.
Members of the Tufts community participated in a panel discussion last night hosted by the Peace and Justice Studies program focusing on nonviolent campaigns through the changing lens of media. The discussion was held in light of recent events such as the Occupy Boston Movement and the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline controversy.
India native and Simmons College Professor of Sociology JyotiPuri last night discussed the social justice implications of the recent decriminalization of sodomy in Delhi, India.
A random sample of 4,000 Tufts students received an email this week as part of the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), an annual survey that examines mental health issues among college students across the nation.
Tufts' School of Dental Medicine this month received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification for the Level 2 Renovation project on its building in Boston's Chinatown.
The Environmental Studies Program is proposing revisions to its curriculum that would allow majors to gain background in an interdisciplinary core of courses while focusing more on their chosen track.
NBC News anchor Brian Williams will address the Tufts community at the seventh annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism, Julie Dobrow, director of the Communications and Media Studies (CMS) Program at Tufts, told the Daily.
Approximately 22 percent of the Tufts undergraduate student body responded to the fall 2011 Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate survey, which the Senate will use to understand how to best improve student outreach and knowledge about initiatives on campus, according to TCU President Tomas Garcia, a senior.
The Experimental College (Ex College)−sponsored "A Taste of Tufts: A Sampling of Faculty Research" lecture series continued last Friday, with Associate Professor of Music David Locke at bat. At the lecture, Locke presented his multimedia research on the drumming of the Dagomba, an ethnic group in Ghana.
The Race and Ethnicity Working Group has been meeting regularly this semester to discuss the creation of a new interdisciplinary program on the study of race, ethnicity, diversity, disparity and identity.
Following up on President Barack Obama's call in his State of the Union address for improvement in American higher education, the White House last week unveiled a draft "College Scorecard" to provide potential college students with vital statistics about prospective colleges.
