Chem fataleOn Feb. 28 at 9:53 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a chemical spill and minor injury at Pearson Chemistry Laboratory. A student accidentally splashed methylene chloride on their face and immediately afterwards washed the chemical compound off using the eye wash ...
Editor's note: Read an updated version of this article here.In a dramatic development in their seven-month contract negotiations with the University, Tufts Dining workers will hold a vote on whether to strike on March 14, UNITE HERE Local 26 President Brian Lang announced this afternoon.Lang made ...
TUESDAY“Picket for a Fair Dining Contract”Details: Tufts Dining workers and Tufts Dining Action Coalition will picket outside of Carmichael Dining Hall to support dining workers in their contract negotiations with the university.Where and when: Carmichael Dining Hall; 4:30–6:30 p.m.WEDNESDAY“Religious ...
Incoming first-year students in the School of Arts and Sciences will be able to spend their first semester in Urubamba, Peru or Kunming, China while earning academic credit and completing service work through the Tufts Civic Semester, a new program jointly offered by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of ...
Robin DiAngelo and Jack Hill held a session yesterday with the Tufts community centered around DiAngelo’s recently released book, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism" (2018). The talk focused on the discomfort white people exhibit when their views ...
Tufts responded to allegations submitted by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey in court documents filed against the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma on Jan. 31. This follows reports that Tufts' relationship with Purdue Pharma influenced its schools, research and degree programs, according ...
The Somerville City Council and the mayors of both Somerville and Medford publicly backed Tufts Dining workers’ campaign for a favorable contract with the university over the past week, in a striking signal of public support.A video of Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone endorsing the dining workers’ ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met to discuss supplementary funding requests and hear announcements from officers, committee chairs and members last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room.TCU Parliamentarian Sharif Hamidi, a sophomore, announced two upcoming resolutions that the TCU Senate ...
Tufts Office of the Provost hosted a discussion titled "Intentional Diversity and Inclusion," with Wade Davis, former NFL player and public speaker on gender, orientation and racial equality, yesterday in the ASEAN Auditorium. The program was co-sponsored by the dean of Arts and Sciences, ...
German Marshall Fund President Karen Donfried believes the United States’ relationship with Europe is as crucial as ever, even though America is retreating from the international order it helped build.Donfried called for a recommitment to transatlantic alliances by reforming them into a “new West” ...
The Tufts Financial Group (TFG) hosted a question and answer session with alumna Sue Decker (LA '84), the founder and CEO of the social networking startup Raftr, on Tuesday night as part of their speaker series.Decker, who received her undergraduate degree in computer science and economics at Tufts, ...
The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) hosted Wall Street Journal war correspondent Jessica Donati for a lecture last night on her experience reporting in the world's most dangerous war zones. The talk covered a range of topics from Donati’s career to wartime reporting ...
In January of this year, the American College Health Association (ACHA) released new guidelines for the use of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in college health centers. ACHA PrEP in College Health Task Force, the task force that put together these guidelines, included ...
The Tufts University Alumni Association sent ballots for two open Alumni Trustee seats on the Tufts University Board of Trustees as well as nine open seats on the Tufts University Alumni Council to Tufts alumni by email last Thursday.The voting period will end March 31 and results of the election ...
"Posters with incendiary images, anti-Israel messages deface Tufts Hillel" (Feb. 13).By: Daniel Nelson, investigative editorSummary: Flyers depicting militarized pigs, including at least one with a caption calling for the destruction of “ISRAELI APARTHEID FORCES AND AMERIKKKAN [sic] PIGS ...
The Tufts Admissions Office has been working with students in recent months to create new outreach programs to appeal to different groups of prospective students. All of these programs aim to reach specifically targeted groups of students, and encourage them to apply to and eventually attend Tufts ...
Ellise LaMotte is the new director of STEM diversity as of this semester, and she has plans to enrich community outreach at the Center for STEM Diversity as well as improve visibility of minority students in STEM at Tufts.LaMotte holds a Ph.D. in education from University of Massachusetts Boston ...
HIIT and runOn Feb. 18 at 11:33 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from a temporary employee that their vehicle had been damaged in Cousens Parking Lot. The temporary employee noticed the damage to their vehicle after leaving the gym. Upon further investigation, it was ...
The Tufts Entrepreneurship Center (TEC) hosted its Founder’s Workshop at 574 Boston Avenue on Feb. 22 to facilitate networking with speeches about the art of the pitch and lengthy question and answer sessions about fundraising strategies. The theme, “Finding the Best People & Money to Start ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate convened in a packed Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room on Sunday night, passing a resolution calling for “an open and just renewal process” for American Studies Professor Thomas Abowd’s contract as well as academic freedom and an intimidation-free workplace. ...
