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Institute for Global Leadership celebrates 30th anniversary, departure of founding director

By Liam Knox | May 22

The Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) celebrated its 30th anniversary with a day of campus events, followed by an invitation-only 30th anniversary gala at the Boston Marriott in Cambridge on Saturday, May 7. The celebration not only honored the history and growth of the institute, but also the career of Founding Director Sherman Teichman, who will be retiring after this academic year.

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DTD to face another year without its fraternity house

By Joe Walsh | May 22

Brothers from the Beta Mu chapter of the Delta Tau Delta (DTD) fraternity will not return to their on-campus fraternity house next fall, following a decision from the City of Somerville not to renew the fraternity house's special lodging permit for the upcoming academic year. As a result, the ...

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Alex Bhak: remembering the boy who was 'happy to be happy'

By Sophie Lehrenbaum | May 22

During the early morning hours of Saturday, April 2, first-year Alex Bhak passed away in a tragic accident in downtown Boston. He is survived by his mother, father and younger sister, Maya.The Office of the President sent out an email to the Medford/Somerville campus community that day noting that ...

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Students present demands on tuition, financial aid in rally

By Vibhav Prakasam | May 22

About 70 students gathered on the lower patio of Mayer Campus Center on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 4, as part of an organized rally to protest the raise of tuition expenses for the 2016-2017 academic year. The tuition increases were initially announced in an April 12 email from James Glaser, ...

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Benjamin Hescott awarded Professor of the Year by TCU Senate

By Isha Fahad | May 22

Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate selected Benjamin Hescott,an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, to receive the annual Professor of the Year Award, a prize distributed based on informal interviews and student nominations. Hescott's name will be added to a plaque in the Mayer ...

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Arianna Huffington discusses her role in new media age

By Arin Kerstein | May 22

Arianna Huffington (AH): It’s constantly evolving, and the universe of platforms where people engage with news is expanding exponentially ... Whatever our goals are as media organizations, [there is a universal] need to stay nimble, to adapt, to iterate and to evolve in this ever-changing environment — to disrupt ourselves so that we are not disrupted.

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Monaco discusses issues surrounding housing, diversity on campus

By The Tufts Daily | May 22

With an eventful academic year winding down and five years as University President under his belt, Anthony Monaco sat down with the Daily to discuss some of the major issues and events on campus.Tufts Daily: What did you think about this academic year as a whole, and what are your thoughts moving forward?Anthony ...

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Bomb threats, car fire interrupted Monday activities, final exam schedules

By Mengqi Sun | May 9

The scheduling of today's final exams was disrupted following a fire in a vehicle outside of Tufts Health Service around 4:30 a.m. this morning, and the discovery at the building entrance of a note with bomb threats to four different campus locations. As law enforcement secured, evacuated and cleared the four targeted buildings — Cabot Intercultural Center, Braker Hall, Cohen Auditorium and Tisch Library — exams of three math courses and classes taught in the G and E blocks in the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) were postponed and rescheduled to Friday.

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Tufts-SMFA merger details to be settled by July

By Juliana Furgala | May 2

Following the signing of a merger agreement between Tufts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) in March, details on the union between the institutions will be settled and implemented by the end of July to provide students from both schools a more diverse set of course offerings. Administrators ...

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Police Briefs — April 27

By Gil Jacobson | April 28

Life's No PicnicThe Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report of a stolen picnic table behind the Eliot-Pearson Children's School at 9:30 a.m. on April 20. The table went missing at some point during the previous week. This case is currently under investigation.Foul PlayTUPD ...

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