This academic year has ushered in a host of changes within the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife). According to Christopher Rossi, the associate dean of student affairs,ResLife has put a number of reforms in place that provide co-curricular resources and support for students.Former ResLife ...
TUESDAY“Civics Fest”Details: In celebration of national voter registration day, the Tisch College of Civic Life is holding Civics Fest, where attendees can register to vote, eat ice cream and learn about different political organizations on campus.When and Where: 12–3 p.m., Upper Campus Center ...
Tufts and Greentown Labs announced the adoption of an agreement on Sept. 7, signifying their commitment to collaboration, according to Director of Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE) Linda Abriola. Greentown Labs, located in Somerville, a group of entrepreneurs that supports clean tech startups ...
James Forman Jr., a professor at Yale Law School, spoke about his recent book “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” at Alumnae Lounge last night. Approximately 60 people attended the talk, which was followed by a question and answer session and book signing.The talk was the first ...
Content warning: This article discusses policy surrounding sexual misconduct.Secretary of Education Betsy DeVosannounced an overhaul of the federal approach toward addressing sexual misconduct accusations on college campuses earlier this month. While the policy implications have yet to be determined, ...
Current Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone and challenger Payton Corbett will head into the city’s mayoral election after a preliminary election held on Tuesday, Sept. 19. Meanwhile, the third candidate, Kenneth Van Buskirk III, will end his candidacy after taking the smallest share of votes.Curtatone, ...
In the wake of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Tufts students have launched a series of hurricane education and fundraising campaigns to help support victims in impacted areas.Jumbo Hurricane Harvey Relief Effort is one such initiative. Houston natives Joseph Caplan and John Peavy launched the effort ...
The final report draft of the Master Plan for Medford Square’s revitalization project is now public and was presented to a Community Open House on Sept. 13 by Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC)Senior Regional Planner Josh Fiala along with Mayor Stephanie Burke, according to a Sept. 14 Wicked ...
Grant Gebetsberger, Izzy Ma, Mateo Gomez, Janey Litvin, Sharif Hamidi, Rebeca Becdach and Sarah Wiener were elected to fill the seven Class of 2021 Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate openings, according to Tufts Community Union Elections Commission (ECOM) Chair Klavs Takhtani.Issac Kim will be the ...
The Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences namedDaniel Jay as its new dean.Jay has been a professor at Tufts for nearly 20 years in three departments: Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology; Cellular and Molecular Physiology; and Neuroscience. He also runs a lab that does metastasis research ...
Musical ChairsOn Sept. 6 at 3:39 p.m., a staff member reported that someone had stolen four brand-new chairs from Eaton Hall. They have yet to be found. Smoked OutA Tufts University Police Department officer was doing a check at Alex’s Place on the Tisch Library Roof on Sept. 9 at 11:28 p.m. when ...
The Office of the Provost launched the Bridging Differences Initiative this fall to encourage people with "profoundly different" points of view to openly discuss their thoughts and opinions.The initiative, led by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris and Chief Diversity Officer ...
Students running to be Tufts Community Union (TCU) Class of 2021 Senators, First-Generation Community Senator and TCU Judiciary members detailed their platforms at last night’s TCU Candidates’ Forum, held in Barnum 008 by TCU Elections Commission (ECOM).The forum was held before today’s TCU elections, ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate elected three new trustee representatives in its meeting last night: sophomores Angela Sun and Kristen Moran and senior Nathan Foster.The three representatives will serve on the academic affairs, administration and finance, and university advancement committees ...
Tufts hired Julián Cancino in August 2017 as the new director of the Latino Center at Tufts University. The decision drew controversy, with outgoing Latino Center Director Rubén Stern criticizing the hiring process in a letter to the Daily.The hiring concluded a nationwide search to replace Stern, ...
This past summer, 248 first-year and new students signed up to participate in Tufts' Mentor Collective, according to Associate Dean for Student Success and Advising Robert Mack.The Mentor Collective is a program run by the university that connects students who, for the most part, do not participate ...
MONDAY“CIERP Research Seminar: Vehicle Electrification in China: Preferences, Policy and Technology Trajectories."Details: John Paul Helveston, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Boston University, will be speaking on what influences the transition to environmentally ...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro spoke to a crowded ASEAN Auditorium at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy yesterday. Shapiro served as ambassador under the Obama administration from July 2011 to January 2017 and, among other positions, served as the senior director for the Middle ...
The Student Life Review Committee released its exhaustive final report today, following months of study on the Greek life system and undergraduate student life.The Committee report finds that Tufts has not adequately planned the undergraduate co-curricular experience, creating a social activity “‘vacuum’” ...
More than 60 Tufts students protested yesterday against the current presidential administration's cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, gathering at the lower patio of the Mayer Campus Center. The program, according to a White House press release, will be ...
