The Women's Center hosted staff, professors and students on Friday for its 2018 Symposium on Gender and Culture.The symposium’s theme, “Metaphors of the Body,” explored the body’s role as an analogy for larger, universal forces.“I was thinking about … how our bodies carry historic ...
A gun magazine clip found in an auditorium at the McGlynn Elementary and Middle School in Medford went unreported to the police by Medford Superintendent of Schools Roy Belson for close to seven weeks, according to a story in the Medford Transcript. A cleaning company discovered the clip, containing ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear a presentation by JumboVote, table a supplementary funding appeal, approve supplementary funding requests and hear committee updates.After brief introductions from the newly elected Class of 2020 Senators Danny ...
MONDAY“Aesthetics, Academics, & Activism at Standing Rock”Details: Osage, Creek and Cherokee artist Yatika Fields and American Studies scholar Nick Estes of the Lower Brulé Sioux tribe will be having a conversation about indigenous activism, specifically scholars’ and artists’ efforts at ...
Rabbi Naftali Brawer, a published writer and the chief executive of a London-based think tank, will succeed Rabbi Jeffrey Summit as the Jewish chaplain and Neubauer Executive Director of Tufts Hillel, according to Patrick Collins, Tufts' executive director of public relations. Brawer has taught ...
Yesterday, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of DEKA Research and Development Corporation Dean Kamen gave a talk on developing inventions and the potential of future engineers as a part of the School of Engineering Dean’s Lecture series.Kamen is known for pioneering inventions such as the wearable ...
At the Criminal Justice Reform Phone Bank yesterday, students made more than 200 calls to state and federal officials regarding criminal justice reform bills up for consideration in the U.S. Senate and the Massachusetts Legislature, according to Max Hornung, a senior and co-organizer of the event. Hornung is ...
This week, the Tufts University School of Engineering celebrated Engineers Week (E-Week). Engineering students, in conjunction with faculty, the Career Center and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), organized and hosted a series of celebratory events and activities, according ...
Starting next year, incoming first-years participating in the First-Year Orientation CommUnity Service (FOCUS) pre-orientation program will sleep in Tufts’ residence halls, rather than in churches, as participants have done in past years, according to student coordinators Billy Lynn, Zoe Leaf and ...
The Program for Public Humanities at Jonathan M. Tisch College for Civic Life sponsored a panel on “Public Amnesias” yesterday afternoon to discuss dynamic omissions in the narratives of experiences.The event, moderated by Diana O'Donoghue, director of the Program for Public Humanities, featured ...
Alexa Weinstein and Daniel Cashman were elected to fill the two Class of 2020 Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate openings, according to Tufts Community Union Elections Commission (ECOM) Treasurer Woody Nimoityn, a junior.Alejandro Baez, a first-year, will be the new First-Generation (first-gen) community ...
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Me) spoke to students and members of the Tufts community about the state of the U.S. government and the future of bipartisanship on Wednesday in the ASEAN Auditorium. Collins' presentation, which was moderated by Associate Professor of political science Eitan Hersh, ...
JCC* and UIJ members said they hope attendees of the event take away a solidarity between different groups and see that although World War II occurred 80 years ago, similar problems are still present today.
Jay Gonzalez, a former Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance running for governor as a Democrat, shared his vision for state leadership and criticized Governor Charlie Baker’s record at a Tufts Democrats-sponsored event last night.Addressing about 25 students and community members, ...
The Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) hosted a candidates' forum last night in Braker 001 to provide a space for open discussion for the four candidates running for positions on the Committee on Student Life (CSL), Class of 2020 Senator seats and one First-Generation (First Gen) Community Representative ...
Tufts University Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris announced today that he will be leaving Tufts to become the president of Union College in July 2018.The announcement came Tuesday afternoon via the Union College and Tufts University Twitter accounts, a Union College press conference live ...
Un oeuf of these fire alarms On Feb. 12 at 9:45 p.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and the Somerville Fire Department (FD) responded to a fire alarm in the Hodgdon Hall kitchen. The alarm had been set off by someone trying to make hard-boiled eggs in a pan, but TUPD was unable to find the ...
The music department will offer a new major next fall, according to Chairman of the Music Department David Locke. Locke said the creation of the major, “Music, Sound, and Culture,” is part of an effort to adapt the department’s programs to changing student needs. The new major comes as a revision ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to provide committee updates and hear several funding requests.TCU President Benya Kraus opened the meeting, sharing an update on the ongoing special election cycle. Kraus said the candidates' forum will ...
TUESDAY“Tufts University Phone Bank for Transgender Equality”Details: As part of a partnership with Freedom for All Massachusetts, students are calling Massachusetts state officials to defend transgender equality.Where and when: Tufts University LGBT Center, 226 College Ave; 6–9 p.m.“A Conversation ...
