RETRACTION: An earlier version of this article consisted largely of quotations and paraphrases that were based on an October 2016 speech Mayor Stephanie Burke gave to the Medford Chamber of Commerce, not the Feb. 8 State of the City address. The article has been updated so that it reflects the content ...
University President Anthony Monaco said in a Jan. 29 email to the Tufts community that the university is committed to helping students impacted by President Donald Trump's executive order that restricts travel to the United States by nationals of seven Muslim-majority nations.
The orientation process for incoming first-year students will undergo changes beginning with the Class of 2021's orientation in August. Orientation Leaders (OLs) will share responsibilities with First-Year Advisors (FYAs), who will perform the role of Resident Assistants (RAs) in first-year housing ...
Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone reaffirmed his city's status as a sanctuary city and promised to protect undocumented immigrants living in Somerville in a Jan. 25 speech.Curtatone's announcement followed an executive order released by President Donald Trump's administration on the same ...
President of the Boston City Council Michelle Wu spoke at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life yesterday afternoon as part of the Civic Life Lunches initiative. During the lunchtime talk, Wu spoke briefly about her family, education and rise in politics before taking questions from the audience.Wu ...
The Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund (TNSF) has awarded $19,046 in grants to 36 nonprofit organizations in the Medford, Somerville, Grafton, Chinatown, Fenway and Mission Hill neighborhoods, according to a Jan. 13 news release.TNSF was created in 1995 by the managing committee of the Tufts Community ...
Less than a month into his presidency, President Donald Trump has already sent shockwaves through the American public. Since taking office, he has signed numerous proclamations, executive orders and presidential memoranda implementing his campaign platform at surprising speed.He has ordered investigations ...
CBS News President David Rhodes spoke at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy last night at an event sponsored by the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World. The primary subject of the discussion was the role of news media in the presidential election and beyond.Dean of the Fletcher School ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) is preparing to consolidate first-year housing at Tufts and restructure the Residential Assistant (RA) program in the coming year, according to ResLife Director Yolanda King.Going forward, ResLife will house most first-year students in first-year ...
Tufts students volunteered at a number of local charities as part of the University Chaplaincy'sannual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event on Jan. 28. The event followed a symposium on Martin Luther King Jr, which was also organized by the Chaplaincy earlier in January.Students volunteered ...
Swipe It Forward, an initiative that allows students to donate extra meal swipes to students in need, was recently launched by Tufts Dining Services, the Office for Student Success and Advising and the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's Culture, Ethnicity, Community Affairs (CECA) Committee.
MONDAY"Media and the 2016 Election"Details: David Rhodes, who has been president of CBS News since 2011, will return to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy for a talk on the media in the 2016 election.Where and When: ASEAN Auditorium, 5:30 p.m.Sponsors:Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met yesterday afternoon in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss supplementary funding requests and general updates.Benya Kraus, diversity and community affairs officer, started the meeting with project updates from the Culture, Ethnicity, Community ...
Over the course of the fall semester, Chi Omega's Chi Alpha chapter at Tufts saw the departure of a number of members, amidst criticism that Greek life is exclusionary.Nine of these sisters -- Gabriela Bonfiglio, Claudia Mihm, Chelsea Hayashi, Meg Weck, Emily Sim, Lily Blumkin, Benya Kraus, Supriya ...
Jonathan Davis, chief of the Newborn Medicine Division at Tufts Medical Center and professor of pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine, is conducting research and clinical trials to make newborn medication safer.According to Davis, the body of research on the safety of neonatal drugs ...
Robin Glover and Ellen Pinderhughes are Tufts’ new interim Chief Diversity Officers (CDOs), following former CDO Mark Brimhall-Vargas's departure from Tufts on Jan. 10.Glover is the associate dean of public health and professional degree programs at the Tufts Medical School, and Pinderhughes ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met for the first time this semester in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room on Sunday night. At the meeting, senators discussed housing updates and various committee projects.Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) Director Yolanda King, Director ...
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will speak at Tufts as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life’sDistinguished Speaker Series this semester. Baker’s speech will be on Feb. 23 in Distler Performance Hall. The event will be free for Tufts students to attend, though it may be ticketed, ...
Hundreds of protesters convened in Logan International Airport on Saturday night to demonstrate against President Donald Trump's recent executive order on immigration.The protest was organized in the wake of an executive order signed by Trump on Friday that suspended the United States' refugee ...
Students gathered for a panel discussion on sanctuary cities and immigration law in Tisch Library Room 316 on Monday night. The event was hosted by Tufts Democrats and featured six panelists who have direct ties to immigration policy and activism in the Boston area.First to speak was Tufts Democrats PresidentBen ...
