The Center for International Law and Governance (CILG) at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy hosted its inaugural event — a two-day conference on the world of cybersecurity — in Breed Memorial Hall over the weekend.
Carolina Olea Lezama, Andrew Kofsky, Rabiya Ismail, Deepen Goradia, Timothy Leong, Iyra Chandra and Melia Harlanwere elected to fill the seven Class of 2022 Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate openings, according to Elections Commission (ECOM) Chair Ethan Mandelbaum. Griffen Saul was elected to fill ...
Content warning: This article discusses suicide.The Tufts chapter of Active Minds, a national organization dedicated to fighting mental health stigma and encouraging young adults to speak openly about mental health, spent Tuesday afternoon tabling at the Mayer Campus Center to advocate for mental health ...
Around 100 people attended a community block party at Nathan Tufts Park on Sunday. The block party, hosted by Tufts Housing League (THL), along with Tufts Progressive Alliance (TPA) and Tufts Student Action (TSA), sought to bring together Tufts students and residents of Medford and Somerville to discuss ...
MONDAY, SEPT. 17"#MeToo and the Constitution"Details: Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, the John H. Watson Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School will give a talk on the #MeToo movement and the U.S Constitution to commemorate Constitution Day.When and Where: 12–2 p.m. Paige HallSponsor: Department ...
Vandals On September 4 at 9:30 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report that a Facilities Services’ van had been broken into. Power tools worth an estimated $1,200 were taken from the van, which was parked behind Bray Lab, the window had been smashed on the driver's side. ...
Author and educator Linda Nathan gave a talk on her latest book, “When Grit Isn't Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-all Promise" in the Olin Center's Laminan Lounge on Thursday night.The Department of Education-sponsored talk ...
A vehicle collided with electrical generators beside Pearson Chemical Laboratory late Wednesday night, according to Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins. Collins added that the driver was not injured. The accident prompted a temporary shutdown of power to the Somerville side of the ...
The first-year Class of 2022 is the most diverse in university history, according to an Aug. 29 Tufts Now article.Of domestic students in the Class of 2022, 37 percent identify as students of color, compared to 32 percent of students in the Class of 2021.Five percent of the students identify as black, ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) hired Angelic Sosa as an assistant director of housing operations over the summer. According to Sosa, she assumed her role in July, and will work directly with Tufts' off-campus and prospective off-campus student population.
The Office for Campus Life (OCL) recently announced the creation of a Student Life Channel, a cable television network that will feature content from student groups. There is no cost to submit content, according to Communications and Multimedia Specialist Mickey Toogood. “The Student Life Channel ...
Content warning: This article discusses sexual misconduct.The Dean of Student Affairs Office announced a series of changes to the student code of conduct in an Aug. 31 email sent to the Tufts community.The updates — which impact drug and alcohol amnesty, campus demonstration procedures and hazing, ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room for the first time in the 2018-2019 academic year to elect the new parliamentarian and new chair for the Services Committee and to vote on the proposed changes on the Treasury Procedures Manual (TPM). The ...
Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley defeated Rep. Michael Capuano in Tuesday's Democratic primary for Massachusetts' Seventh Congressional District, which comprises most of Boston and Cambridge and all of Somerville. The unseating of Capuano, a 10-term incumbent, paves the way for Pressley ...
Despite these well-documented and widely-reported beliefs, Lively received over 27 percent of support at the convention, enough to grant him an appearance on the primary ballot alongside Baker, according to WBUR. In the primary, he received an even larger share of the vote, pulling in 36 percent, over 98,000 votes.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 6"Fall Exhibitions Opening Reception"Details: Tufts will hold an opening reception for the fall art lineup. This semester’s exhibitions include States of Freedom: The Figure in Flux and Expressions Unbound: American Outsider Art from the Andrew and Linda Safran Collection.When ...
Over 1,600 first-years and transfer students gathered on the President's Lawn on Saturday night to participate in Tufts' Illumination Ceremony, according to University Chaplain Reverend Greg McGonigle.The candle lighting ceremony — an undergraduate tradition meant to symbolize university ...
Barnum Hall, currently vacant after the relocation of the Department of Biology to the Science and Engineering Complex in fall 2017, will be filled by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life (Tisch College) and the Department of Film and Media Studies (FMS) in summer 2019, at the conclusion of ...
The university administration is facing rising controversy over a tiered housing system that will increase the price of the more attractive on-campus housing units available to students. The announcement is drawing protests from students who fear that the new system will lead to economic segregation ...
Last year, Tufts saw a continuation of established debates and drama, as well as the emergence of new issues that stand to affect the campus in the coming months. Here is a review of the key issues as they emerged.SeptemberLed by campus group United for Immigrant Justice, more than 60 students protested ...
