Junior Benya Kraus was elected Tufts Community Union (TCU) President for the next academic year, following online elections yesterday. Kraus, currently the Diversity and Community Affairs Officer in TCU Senate, ran unopposed in the election.Krauswon 70.96 percent of the 699 votes cast, with 19.31 percent for ...
A group of researchers, including Associate Professor of Psychology Ariel Goldberg and former Tufts graduate student Naomi Caselli, were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) visualization award for ASL-LEX, an interactive and searchable lexical database for American Sign Language (ASL).Karen ...
The annual $100k New Ventures Competition -- a contest organized by the Gordon Institute's Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies (ELS) Program that awards funding to several startup teams -- selected the winners for this year's competition two weeks ago.The three winning teams will all receive ...
Brown and Brew Coffee House will close at the end of the business day on Aug. 11 after more than 20 years of operation, according to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos. The decision to close Brown and Brew was made when it became apparent that a new cafe will be included in the ...
Latino Center Director Rubén Salinas Stern will retire this August after working at Tufts for 24 years, according to an email sent to the Latinx community on April 6. Stern explained that he made the decision to retire for several personal reasons and after realizing that it was hard to remain ...
After student support and lobbying by Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, Tufts will offer Hindi-Urdu classes next semester as part of the Experimental College. Both Hindi-Urdu 1 and 3 will be offered, and the 15-person Hindi-Urdu 1 section is currently full, according to the Student Information ...
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé, the former foreign minister of Spain, spoke about the complicated nature of the Middle East peace process and criticized past pitfalls and missed opportunities at an event in a mostly-full Alumnae Lounge last night.The event was sponsored by the Education for Public ...
Editor's Note: Khuyen Bui, a columnist at the Daily, is cited in this article. He was not involved in the production of the article.Voices of the Hill student group will host "The Gap," its first monologue event, this evening at 8 p.m. in Breed Memorial Hall. At the event, Tufts students will ...
Tufts Climate Action (TCA) hosted the 'Rally for Climate Justice' on Mayer Campus Center Lower Patio on Saturday, in part to urge the university to divest its direct holding in the fossil fuel industry. The rally took place on the same day as the March for Science in Boston, which was part ...
MONDAY"Peace in the Middle East? One hundred years after the Balfour Declaration"Details: Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé, Spain's former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the European Union's former Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process for seven years, is speaking ...
Disclaimer: Linda Furgala's daughter is an assistant news editor at the Daily. She was not involved in the production of this article.Linda Furgala, an employee at Carmichael Dining Center who was fired during the middle of her shift last Wednesday night, told the Daily on Friday afternoon that ...
UPDATE: An earlier version of this article stated that the election for TCU President is on Tuesday, but it has been moved to Wednesday.Benya Kraus, the diversity & community affairs officer for Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, is the only candidate for Wednesday's election for TCU President. ...
In the past, students have had to wait several weeks after picking their regular classes to register for ExCollege classes. But this semester, the ExCollege debuted a new registration date for its fall 2017 classes. For the first time, ExCollege classes are available for registration on SIS at the ...
T-Pain will no longer be performing at this year's Spring Fling concert due to a "personal obligation that cannot be avoided."
Tufts’ Mental Health Task Force, formed by University President Anthony Monaco last semester, has begun to conduct listening sessions with student organizations to collect input on student mental health.The task force is charged with reviewing the state of mental health for students on all Tufts ...
Students from Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) gathered outside the Activity Fair tent on the Academic Quad during Jumbo Days yesterday afternoon to call on the university to meet the demands of part-time faculty, who are currently in the midst of re-negotiations over their contract expiring June 30.
No Exit StrategyA Residential Assistant (RA) reported on April 9 at 1:10 a.m. that an exit sign on the third floor of Harleston Hall was ripped from the ceiling. The drop ceiling was also damaged. Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers responded to the vandalism report and Facilities Services ...
The Career Center recently hired Malakia Silcott as the new assistant director and career advisor to fill the vacancy left by Nicole Anderson, who is now associate director of alumni career services. Previously, Silcott worked at several different colleges including Brandeis University, Massachusetts ...
Gina McCarthy (G '81), former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Barack Obama's presidential administration, discussed the future of the environment in a talk attended by a full crowd of over 100 people last night in the Alumnae Lounge.The talk, titled “The Future of Environmental ...
A group of students is working to create a permanent on-campus food truck that will be fully student-operated.The truck will provide another on-campus dining option, give students tangible business experience and promote a conversation about sustainability on-campus, according to seniorJulie Sanduski. ...
