Kurt Pennell, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, said that the team's interdisciplinary approach led to consistent and significant results in the field of cholera prevention and mitigations.
Bill Browder, the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, and Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA) discussed the future of U.S. foreign relations through the lens of the 2009 trial of Sergei Magnitsky in an event sponsored by the Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC). The event was ...
MONDAY"Liberal Arts Distribution Requirements: Your Thoughts!"Details: This is the first in a series of meetings to evaluate the liberal arts curriculum and make suggestions to change or improve it. Pizza will be served.When and Where: 12 p.m.-1 p.m., Alumnae LoungeSponsor: Tufts Community ...
Tufts students studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, organized a rally entitled “Love Trumps Hate Madrid” yesterday afternoon in Plaza Puerta Del Sol.
Meal SwipeA student alerted the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) at 10 a.m. on Nov. 16 that her laptop had been stolen. The student had left her backpack in the Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center the previous night. When she went to retrieve the backpack the next day, she found her laptop missing, ...
David Axelrod, chief strategist for both of President Barack Obama’s election campaigns and former senior advisor to the president, discussed the recent election of Donald Trump, progressive youth engagement going forward and ways to overcome divides throughout the country.The talk, sponsored by the ...
A Tufts Community Union Senate resolution that pledged support for the release of American-Iranian citizen Siamak Namazi (LA ’93) and his father, Bagher Namazi, from an Iranian prison passed on Sunday night's meeting by a vote of 24-1-1.The two each received a 10-year prison sentence in ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) released a statement on Oct. 7 announcing that they would explore changing flight paths out of Boston Logan International Airport due to noise complaints from residents in Somerville, Medford, Arlington, Belmont, ...
Students hosted a donation drive to collect materials for the Standing Rock Native American Reservation on Nov. 4, according to the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate LGBTQ+ Community Representative Parker Breza. Breza said the drive was part of a series of teach-ins, rallies and donation drives ...
A resolution by Students Advocating for Students (SAS) that called for changes to Tufts University's Sexual Misconduct Policy, along with other policies, failed to pass last night at the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's weekly meeting.The resolution alleged that the university's Sexual ...
Several questions were raised by the senators and members of the audience attending the meeting during the question-and-answer period during which senators asked the resolution's writers to provide more details on changes they wanted to see in Tufts' policies. After this period, there was a motion to vote on the resolution, which was objected to, leading to a pro-con debate period and an eventual passing of a motion to vote.
French philosopher Alain Badiou spoke about President-elect Donald Trump's election and theorized about what that means for the state of democracy and capitalism during a lecture last night in the ASEAN Auditorium.Over 120 people attended the event, which was co-sponsored by the Department ...
A group of students is launching a startup app called "Buddy" in an effort to connect Tufts students seeking community through cuddling, among other things, according to project founder Olive Baerde.The startup's team of developers includes Baerde, co-founder Stephan Green and programmers ...
Hundreds of students walked out of their classes and gathered in front of Olin Center yesterday at 2:30 p.m. as part of a nationwide walkout on college campuses in an effort to push the university to designate its campuses as “sanctuary campuses,” which would protect and support undocumented ...
After acquiring the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) this past summer, Tufts will expand its relationship with the City ofBoston, but will not be increasing its Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) to the city, according to Tufts Co-Director of Community Relations Rocco DiRico.DiRico explained ...
Diana Chigas (F '88) has been appointed to the newly-created position of senior international officer as of Sept. 1 in an effort to continue increasing Tufts’ global presence and ensure that Tufts alumni and faculty can work successfully abroad.“There was a sense that Tufts does a lot internationally, ...
Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman of Canadian podcast “Witch, Please” were joined by Experimental College Professor Lydia Brownon Nov. 15 for a panel discussion about queerness and disability representation in the “Harry Potter” series. The event was hosted by the Tufts Podcast Network.Brown, ...
Yesterday the Tufts community was alerted to an increase in reported cases of mumps on the Tufts Medford/Somerville campus through an email from Medical Director of Health Service Margaret Higham and Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon.
Tufts and the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) officially opened a co-funded Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences (CABCS) in mid-October on the Medford/Somerville campus after more than a year of planning and research on the project.Caroline ...
Collision CourseTufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a motor vehicle accident on Winthrop Street at 5 p.m. on Nov. 9. One vehicle was a Tufts-affiliated vehicle while the other was a non-Tufts vehicle. The cars collided, resulting in no injuries but minor damage to the cars. A report ...
