The Tufts Muslim Student's Association (MSA) hosted an event titled “The Muslim Ban: Histories of Exclusion, Practices of Resistance,” featuring Yale Clinical Professor of LawMuneer Ahmad in the Crane Room on Thursday evening.Tufts Associate Professor of Political Science Natalie Masuoka ...
Boston-area supporters of the transgender community protested the arrival of a bus spreading an anti-transgender message along the East Coast on Thursday, March 30.The bus, branded the “Free Speech Bus,” began its Boston route at the Boston City Hall, followed by the Massachusetts State House ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss several supplementary funding requests, as well as a resolution calling for Spanish and French minors.Senate initially planned to vote on a resolution calling for the abolition of Greek life at last ...
MONDAY"The Politics of Human Rights"Details:Judith Butler, a philosopher studying feminist theory and a professor at University of California, Berkeley, will give a speech about the nature of human rights throughout history through a postcolonial, critical legal studies and political thought ...
Stolen BeautyA student reported his skateboard stolen at 2 p.m. on March 24. The skateboard, which was decorated with blue paint on the bottom and a white drawing of a geisha on its face, was taken from the front of Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center on March 15. It had been left there for the better part ...
Coordinated recruitment for two Tufts sororities -- Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) and Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) -- began this week, after the suspension of recruitment for all Greek life organizations was lifted. During the week's recruitment events, some students gathered to protest Greek life as an ...
UPDATE: A previous version of this article contained an statistic incorrectly reported to the Daily by the Office of Admissions. The article initially reported that 36 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2021 applied for need-based financial aid, but the actual number is 48 percent.Tufts received ...
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts will increase tuition and replace merit scholarships with need-based financial aid for incoming students, according to university officials at both institutions.The shifts will effectively streamline the recently-acquired art school’s financial ...
Colin Crowell, the vice president of global public policy and corporate philanthropy at Twitter, spoke about how Twitter has changed civic discourse in recent years at a talk entitled "Twitter Diplomacy" yesterday afternoon in the ASEAN Auditorium.The event was sponsored by the Jonathan M. ...
Preparations have begun for a mixed-use development at Powder House Community School in Teele Square. The development, which will be built by development company MarKa using the structure of a vacant elementary school, will conclude construction by summer 2018, according to MarKa Director of Development ...
Tufts announced that students on all campuses can change their name in various online Tufts systems, such as Student Information System (SIS) and Trunk, according to a Jumbo Digest email sent out Feb. 26. Students can change their preferred name for most online systems through SIS, which also updates ...
Facing a lack of full-service dining options, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts is currently offering students meal plans at other universities.The Cafe des Arts, which is the SMFA campus' only food service option, is pending renovation and not offering full service, according ...
Tufts will hold an additional day of classes on Tuesday, May 2 for the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering (AS&E) to compensate for two snow days this semester, according to an email announcement sent to the Tufts community on March 28. For all AS&E students, reading period ...
Sororities in good standing with the university will begin "coordinated recruitment" today, according to Meaghan Annett, president of the Panhellenic Council (Panhel). Both Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) and Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) will be recruiting new members. Chi Omega and Alpha Phi (APhi) ...
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Naomi Rosenberg, dean of the Sackler School of Biomedical Graduate Sciences, plans to retire at the end of the academic year, stepping down from her role as dean on June 30, according to Harris Berman, dean of the Tufts School of Medicine. Rosenberg has served as dean of the Sackler School since 2004, ...
MONDAY"A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture"Details:Michelle Joan Wilkinson, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, will speak about the museum for the Margaret Henderson ...
The collective bargaining agreement for part-time adjunct faculty at Tufts is due to expire on June 30, and re-negotiations have begun between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Tufts administrators.Since the adjunct faculty at Tufts formed a union in 2013, their contract with Tufts has ...
Linda Daniels was named senior director of diversity, pluralism and inclusion this semester. In this role, she will work on programs related to intersectionality and pluralism, in partnership with the Group of Six Centers, the Office of Residential Life and Learning, the Office for Campus Life and ...
Somerville, along with four other cities and towns in Massachusetts, was listed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a jurisdiction that limits cooperation with federal law enforcement authorities to detain undocumented immigrants, as part of an ICE report released March 20.This designation ...
