The Great DividerTufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from a university staff member about a stolen room partition on Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. The staff member had brought the room partition to Cabot Intercultural Center but found it missing when he later returned. It has not yet been ...
Massachusetts State Senator Pat Jehlen met with a group of about 25 students in Paige Hall Terrace Room yesterday at 6 p.m. for a discussion about the long term-effects of charter schools and why she believes voters should vote against the Massachusetts Authorization of Additional Charter Schools ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate assembled on Oct. 16 in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room to discuss project proposals and decide upon supplementary funding requests.After beginning the meeting with roll call, Executive Director of the Career Center Gregory Victory introduced himself ...
JumboCode was recognized by Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary on Oct. 2 as one of the official new student groups on campus, according to TCU Judiciary Chair Anna Weissman. The group, which began last fall, provides students interested in computer science with an opportunity to help non-profit ...
Approximately 50 students and faculty gathered with scholars and indigenous nation members to discuss native art, colonialism and indigeneity as part of the third annual workshop held by the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora (RCD) last Friday in Sophia Gordon Hall.The event, ...
MONDAYA Year Like No Other: Politics & the Press in 2016Details: Journalist David Gregory will be hosting a panel discussion on this year's presidential election. Guests include NPR's Asma Khalid, Mic! founder Jake Horowitz and New York Times reporter Patrick Healy (LA '93). Registration ...
The Inter-Greek Council (IGC) is working with the LGBT Center, the Chief Diversity Officer and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life to create a Greek Life Anti-Racism task force, according to Christin Mujica, IGC vice president of community engagement.Each Greek organization at Tufts is required ...
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) hosted the second installment of its “Free Thinkers” lecture series Thursday night in Barnum Hall featuring author and journalist Amy Wilentz.Wilentz's lecture, entitled “Dependence and Liberty: What’s at Stake for Haiti” was centered around ...
Tufts Technology Services (TTS) is aiming to raise awareness among students to help them stay safe online and inform them of services available to keep cyber accounts secure as a part of National Cyber-Security Awareness Month this October, TTS Manager of Service Marketing and Communications Christine ...
Fletcher students are gathering this weekend for a conference with foreign leaders, historians and CEOs to discuss the economic, political and social issues affecting Greece, as well as Greece's role in the Eurozone. Attendees are gathering at Breed Memorial Hall for the conference, titled ...
Starting with the upcoming admissions cycle for the Class of 2021, Tufts will be accepting the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success application, in addition to the QuestBridge application and traditional Common Application.Susan Ardizzoni, director of undergraduate admissions, explained ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met on Oct. 10 in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room to consider several resolutions and supplementary funding requests.Parliamentarian Adam Rapfogel, a sophomore, led the discussion of two resolutions.Senators first considered a resolution affirming ...
Mickey Toogood left his position as judicial affairs administrator in September after two years in that capacity, according to an email announcement to faculty from Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon on July 12.Toogood has continued to work remotely from his new home of Seattle, while Senior ...
The City of Somerville has been making progress on several of its initiatives to achieve its goal of becoming carbon-neutral by the year 2050 and has assessed which sectors and technologies could be used in the future to create policies that would reduce further environmental damage.Somerville Director ...
WEDNESDAY"Ellen Harvey Artist Talk"Details: Ellen Harvey, Brooklyn-based artist specializing in video, painting, performance and installation, will be giving a lecture on her work as part of the Visiting Artist Series.Where and When: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Anderson Auditorium, 6:30 ...
Community members gathered on the Academic Quad on Monday evening to celebrate Indigenous People's Dayfor the first time at Tufts.The celebration included indigenous food and musical performances from different indigenous groups native to both the New England region and Latin America, as well ...
Activist, writer and lawyer Deepa Iyer gave a public talk in Cohen Auditorium on Oct. 5 about her book, "We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future," and what it means to be living in a post-9/11 United States as a person of color.Titled ...
Roberto Gonzales, author of this year’s Common Reading Book "Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America," gave a lecture at Cohen Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 6. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Students and the Jonathan ...
Construction of the new Central Energy Plant (CEP) will continue into 2017, several months after the originally projected completion date of summer 2016, according to Vice President for Operations Linda Snyder.According to Randall Preston, director of the University Energy Project, construction ...
A new student group, Women in the Social Sciences, formed this semester with the intent of connecting and empowering women studying the social sciences at Tufts.According to group co-founder Eva Kahan, the group will have education, outreach and community committees and will look to provide its ...
