Donna Brazile, the former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), came to Tufts last night for a public forum as the first event of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Distinguished Speaker Series this semester.Jen McAndrew, the director of Communications, Strategy and Planning ...
Hope Freeman will continue her work as the interim director for the Women’s Center after stepping in during November 2018 to fill the opening left by former director K. Martinez.A committee to search for a new candidate is not currently active as the Office of Student Affairs considers a reorganization ...
Get Well(esley) soonOn Feb. 9 at 12:54 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a medical call from Hill Hall regarding an intoxicated Wellesley College student. Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) administered care for the student, and they were transported to the hospital for ...
The Tufts administration purchased the property at 123 Packard Avenue on Jan. 7 for two million dollars. The house, which was previously owned by the Theta Delta Chi Corporation, will be used to expand on-campus housing options for students, according to Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick ...
TUESDAY“Distinguished Speaker Series: Donna Brazile”Details: As their first Distinguished Speaker of the semester, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life will invite Donna Brazile, political strategist and former chair of the Democratic National Committee, to speak on the state of politics and ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met on Monday evening in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear a resolution outlining several ways for Tufts Dining to improve accessibility and inclusion for the student body, in addition to several supplementary funding requests and an announcement by representatives ...
The Fletcher Henry J. Leir Institute and the Fletcher Global Women group hosted a “Performances in Solidarity Against Sexual Violence” event last night in the ASEAN auditorium. The evening was held in conjunction with the annual One Billion Rising movement.The event consisted of seven performances ...
Amid a nationwide rise in immigration enforcement, Massachusetts lawmakers and advocates have renewed a push to limit police cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Legislators introduced a new "Safe Communities Act" bill in January, and it has already accrued dozens of sponsors ...
On Thursday afternoon, members of the Tufts community walked out to end gun violence and mourn the lives lost to the Parkland school shooting, assembling at the Tufts Cannon.Around two dozen students and faculty members attended the walkout, which commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Marjory ...
Tufts School of Engineering will recognize National Engineers Week (E-Week), a national event that celebrates engineering, next week. Events start on Feb. 15 and end on Feb. 22.Chris Swan, the dean of undergraduate education for the School of Engineering, outlined the goal of the week-long initiative.“The ...
The start of the spring semester brought new developments in the Community Housing (CoHo) project amid controversyover on-campus housing shortages and off-campus renting difficulties.Upperclassmen recently moved into new housing developments this semester as part of the second phase of the CoHo housing ...
Tufts Gordon Institute lecturer Kaiser Fung was arrested on Feb. 5 at Harvard University’s Blodgett Pool and charged with secretly photographing a nude person. Tufts terminated Fung's employment after being informed of the arrest on Feb. 8, according to Patrick Collins, Tufts' executive ...
Silvia Federici, a scholar, activist and professor emerita at Hofstra University, gave a talk in ASEAN Auditorium covering topics featured in her book, "Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and Politics of the Commons" (2018). The event was sponsored by several departments, including the Department ...
Flyers depicting militarized pigs, including at least one with a caption calling for the destruction of “ISRAELI APARTHEID FORCES AND AMERIKKKAN [sic] PIGS WHICH FUND IT,” were discovered yesterday morning on the exterior of Granoff Family Hillel Center.
Ming Chow, a senior lecturer in the computer science department, will lead a workshop at the Day of Shecurity, a conference that seeks to support women in the cybersecurity field, on Friday, Feb. 22.According to the Day of Shecurity website, only one in five organizations are very committed to hiring ...
Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Dean Alan Solomont began hosting monthly office hours yesterday. Upcoming office hours, which were announced in a Jumbo Digest email sent to students on Feb. 3, will take place in Solomont's office on March 11 and April 22 from 12 to 1:15 p.m.In an email to ...
Technology under troubled watersOn Feb. 2 at 1:55 p.m.,Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) was dispatched to Tufts Technology Services at 126 Curtis Ave. due to a fire alarm. Upon arrival, TUPD witnessed water coming out of a light fixture on the second floor. Facilities was notified that ...
TUESDAY“Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons”Details: Silvia Federici, a professor emerita at Hofstra University who co-founded the International Feminist Collective, the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the Wages for Housework campaign, will discuss her ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room on Sunday night to hear a resolution supporting an easier method of voter registration in addition to several supplementary funding requests.The resolution, titled “19-2 A Resolution Calling on Tufts University to Integrate ...
Around a dozen protesters, including a Tufts professor, several Tufts students and activists not affiliated with the university, assembled for more than an hour on Friday in front of the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center to protest the presence of a Raytheon Company booth at the Tufts Spring Career ...
