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 ...
All candidates on the ballot of yesterday’s preliminary election for Medford City Council will advance to the general election, with the exception of last-place finisher Andrew P. Castagnetti, who missed the general election ballot by 164 votes, according to the City of Medford’s official results, ...
In the wake of Assistant Professor Ben Hescott controversially leaving the Tufts Department of Computer Science this May after being denied tenure, the department has faced additional faculty changes in the past few months. The Department of Computer Science has hired four new professors and lost three.
The Tufts Disorientation Guide for this year was removed from the official Tufts University Class of 2020 and 2021 Facebook pages on Sunday, Sept. 3 by Communications and the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, according to Mickey Toogood,a communications and multimedia specialist at the dean's ...
Seventeen people died from opioid-related overdoses in Medford in 2016, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s August 2017 report on opioid-related overdose deaths. In the same time, Boston saw 202 fatal overdoses, and Somerville witnessed 22 deaths relating to opioids.It ...
Disclaimer: Nick Pfosi is a former associate editor at the Tufts Daily. He was not involved in the writing of this article.Approximately 15,000 people marched through Boston Common on Saturday, Aug. 19, protesting a right-wing, “free speech” rally, according to PBS Newshour.The protesters began ...
Negotiations between adjunct faculty and the Tufts administration appear to have reached a stalemate. According to Andy Klatt, a part-time professor in the Department of Romance Languages and a member of the faculty's bargaining committee, the bargaining agreement was originally set to expire ...
