Tufts Arts, Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) faculty voted 50–0–4 yesterday to urge the Board of Trustees and Tufts administration to divest the school’s endowment from companies that produce, distribute or sell military-style assault weapons to the public. This vote comes in response to ...
Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) urged Tufts to disassociate with the Confucius Institute, an educational collaboration between the university and Beijing Normal University (BNU), in a letter sent to 40 institutions in Greater Boston earlier this month.
Outgoing Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards discussed the state of reproductive rights in America in a packed Cohen Auditorium yesterday.The event was hosted by Merrin Moral Voices, a Hillel initiative, with support from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. Richards was introduced ...
To address rising rents, Somerville aldermen have proposed guaranteeing many tenants citywide an opportunity to purchase their homes if their landlord puts the unit up for sale. This “tenant’s right of first refusal” policy needs approval from the Massachusetts Legislature, and the city could ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senateannounced on its Facebook page yesterday that it will hear a resolution "calling on Tufts to Compensate Student Leaders," most likely on April 8.TCU Treasurer Emily Sim, a junior, is the lead author of the resolution. Other authors include First Generation ...
“How is this code going to be broken? How can someone hack this system?" he said. "My challenge to you as engineering and policy folks is to think through, as you're creating systems, as you're creating stuff, how is somebody going to break in? How could somebody abuse this? I think we need more of that.”
A new primary major for Environmental Studies (ENVS) may be available to students beginning in the fall 2018 semester, pending a vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in May, Dr. Colin Orians, Director of the Environmental Studies program and professor of biology, said. According to Orians, this ...
Former DuPont CEOand Tufts alumnaEllen J. Kullman (E ‘78) will return to her alma mater to deliver the commencement address to the Tufts University Class of 2018 on May 20. Kullman served as the CEO and chair of the board for DuPont, the world’s largest chemical company, for seven years. She was ...
Someone's playing with fire, but not getting burnedOn March 13 around 1 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report that someone had stolen all the fire extinguishers from the lower campus garage. TUPD searched the area for the missing fire extinguishers and the fire marshal ...
The Latino Center will submit pieces of its history to the Tufts Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) in the coming weeks in celebration of its 25th anniversary.It has been 25 years since the Latino Center was founded in 1993, meaning that when Latino Center intern Khalil Payton walked into work ...
MONDAY“Civic Life Lunch — Against Invisibility: Chinese America, History, and the Family Album”Details: Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University Robert Lee will discuss Against Invisibility, a digital project that explores Chinese Americans’ use of photography to investigate ...
Anna Del Castillo, Tufts Community Union (TCU) vice president, is the winner of the Wendell Phillips Award and will be the senior baccalaureate speaker.The Wendell Phillips Award, established in 1896, is given annually to a senior who demonstrates skill in public speaking and a sense of civic responsibility.The ...
Disclaimer: Abigail Feldman is a former Managing Editor and Executive News Editor at the Daily. She was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.Eleven Tufts alumni were awarded grants through the Fulbright Program, an international exchange program for college graduates and alumni ...
Chemistry ProfessorElena Rybak-Akimova passed away from cancer March 11 at the age of 56. Rybak-Akimova’s research interests were small-molecule binding and activation. Above the molecular level, she shared her passion for chemistry with students, colleagues, friends and family.Rybak-Akimova demonstrated ...
Members of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team discussed their experiences in investigative journalism last night in a panel event hosted by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life in Barnum Hall.Panelists Patricia Wen, Adrian Walker and Todd Wallack, all of whom reported for the Globe’s December ...
At an event hosted by TAMID at Tufts yesterday evening, Michael Granoff (LA '91), founder of Maniv Mobility, presented a vision of the future that featured autonomous vehicles and clean energy with Israel playing a key role. According to the TAMID at Tufts website, TAMID is a student-led consulting ...
In light of the recent tragedy at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., as well as the recent discovery of a gun magazine clip at the McGlynn Middle School in Medford, Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) has put sufficient safety measures in place to protect community members ...
Tufts University Social Collective (TUSC) Concert Board announced that the headliner for this year's Spring Fling will be Ty Dolla $ign, with opening acts by Quinn XCII, Princess Nokia and Dutch ReBelle. Concert Board made the announcement at noon today in Hotung Café through a video featuring ...
Kingsley Moghalu (F ’92), senior fellow in The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's Council on Emerging Market Enterprises, announced his campaign for the 2019 presidential election in Nigeria on Feb. 28.
Construction on a new academic building to be built on College Avenue is being postponed until further notice, according to Barbara Stein, vice president of operations at Tufts.The newly approved Cummings building, so named because it is being funded through a grant from the Cummings Foundation, was ...
