A unique take on classical music filled Distler Performance Hall in the Granoff Music Center on Friday with the premiere of “New at Noon: Living Patterns,” an interdisciplinary performance of six musical compositions inspired by repetitive protein sequences.The concert, a collaboration between ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU)Senate met Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear supplementary funding requests and committee updates and discuss the student code of conduct's updated protest policy.TCU Treasurer Izzy Ma, a sophomore, started the meeting by introducing a series ...
The United Nations' Oct. 8 report on global warming has promoted student activist groups and faculty to consider if Tufts could do more to address the climate crisis.Written by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the report details widespread climate-related risks projected ...
Tufts ranks near the bottom of gender parity among Massachusetts colleges, according to a new study released by the nonprofit Eos Foundation on Sept. 27.
Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, a transgender rights advocate whose outspoken views on gender identity prompted his ouster from an Orthodox congregation in Harlem, N.Y., spoke Monday at the Granoff Family Hillel Center about his advocacy, Question 3 on this year's Massachusetts ballot and interpreting ...
University students and administrators are responding to a Financial Times story released earlier this month about the Trump administration's previous consideration of a ban on student visas for Chinese nationals. The proposal came from White House immigration hawks, including Senior Advisor ...
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life released a series of findings recently that suggest that young people are more engaged in the upcoming midterm elections than perhaps ever before. The results, three sets ...
The growing popularity of COMP 40, a core requirement for the computer science major and the new data science major, has forced the Department of Computer Science (CS) to introduce an online application system to limit the number of students who can enroll for the course on SIS this fall, according ...
Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) Marion Smith and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér, now a research fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's Center for Strategic Studies (CSS), discussed the history and modern-day implications of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution Tuesday night. The event, titled "The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Legacy of Soviet Communism," was cosponsored by the CSS, the Fletcher School's International Security Studies Program, and its Russia and Eurasia Program.
Stay in your laneOn Oct. 15 at 11:12 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a report from a student who had woken up in considerable pain. The student said they had been riding their bike on Boston Avenue around 1 a.m. when the bike's pedal became detached. While attempting ...
More than 65 students gathered in front of Ballou Hall to protest changes to the Tufts student code of conduct yesterday at noon. The new policy requires protest groups expecting more than 25 people to register their protest in advance with the Office of Campus Life (OCL) and receive approval.The student ...
Frances Arnold, 2018 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was presented the Tufts' Department of Chemistry's Max Tishler Award in the Pearson Chemical Laboratory on Thursday. Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California ...
TUESDAY"A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins"Details: Cultural critic and author Morgan Jerkins will speak about contemporary issues that she faces as a black woman in America.When and Where: 5:30–7 p.m., ASEAN AuditoriumSponsor: Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, ...
Graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) unanimously voted to ratify their first contract with the administration Thursday, making Tufts the third private university in the United States to have a recognized graduate student union under contract. Voting took place from 9 a.m. ...
The Tufts University Chaplaincy and the Boston Islamic Seminary co-hosted “Female Voices in the Quran,” a workshop that examined female voices throughout the religious text, in the Tufts Interfaith Center on Oct. 6.The event, attended by about 25 people, explored "the values and virtues that ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear supplementary funding requests, an appeal of an Allocations Board (ALBO) decision by the Tufts Ballroom Dance Team, as well as vote on two resolutions that would affirm the Senate’s support for a “yes” ...
Graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) unanimously voted to ratify their first contract with the administration Thursday, making Tufts the third private university in the United States to have a recognized graduate student union under contract.Voting took place from 9 a.m. to ...
Boston City Councilor and candidate for Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives Ayanna Pressley held a college media roundtable at the More Than Wordsbookstore in Boston last night. At the roundtable, Pressley took questions from student journalists from ...
An ordinance to ban plastic bags from retail establishments is currently being considered by the Medford City Council and is expected to be passed into law by the end of the year, according to City Councillor John C. Falco Jr.The drafted ordinance, which is noted on the Sept. 25 meeting agenda of the Medford ...
No love lost and foundOn Oct. 9 at 10:22 p.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a call on the Academic Quad. The reporting party told TUPD that an individual was inquiring about a student, in an attempt to locate the student. TUPD was able to locate the reported individual, who ...
