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Tufts Social Impact Network hosts lecture by Wendy Spencer

Wendy Spencer, chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), spoke at the Tufts health sciences campus as part of the Tufts Social Impact Network’s annual kickoff event last night.Spencer discussed the role of national and local community service in U.S. politics ...








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Police Briefs - Oct. 24

The Sign of the ThiefTufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report on Oct. 17 at 11:20 a.m. about a Tufts building sign stolen from the front of the Community Relations Office at 21 Bellevue St. at some point over the weekend. The sign has not yet been recovered.Bumper CarsA minor motor ...


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Events on the Hill

TUESDAY"After the Oath: Policy Questions for a New President with Kelly Sims Gallagher and Michele L. Malvesti"Details: Adam Reilly, host of WGBH’s “The Scrum," will moderate a discussion with Associate Professor Kelly Sims Gallagher and Professor of the Practice Michele L. Malvesti ...



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SMFA, Tufts merge admissions policies, practices

Following the university's acquisition of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) this summer, the upcoming admissions cycle will mark the first that will be overseen by Tufts. To prepare for this process, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has been aligning the SMFA admission standards ...


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TCU Senate meets to review club funding requests

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met yesterday evening in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room to approve funding requests.After completing roll call, Senate began reviewing funding increase requests submitted by 12 campus groups.Senate passed the Allocations Board’s recommendations to ...



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SPLC-named hate group calls students 'terrorists' in campus posters

Posters naming Tufts students and one Tufts professor as terrorists connected to Hamas were put up across the Medford/Somerville campus on Oct. 19. The Horowitz Freedom Center, a self-identified conservative anti-Islamist group, claimed responsibility for the posters in an email received by a number of Tufts students on the same day. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) names the Horowitz Freedom Center as a hate group in its 2015 report, and calls the organization "the premier financier of anti-Muslim voices and radical ideologies, as well as acting as an exporter of misinformation."



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Tufts alum receives Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded President of Colombia and Former Fletcher Fulbright Scholar Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize for 2016 on Oct. 7. Santos was awarded the prize for his efforts to end the country's civil war."The president himself has made it clear that he will continue ...