Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) visited Tisch College on Feb. 5 to reveal his insights on foreign policy, discuss his experiences in various governmental offices and share his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election. The discussion, which had about 40 undergraduate and graduate students in attendance, ...
Tufts Culinary Society hosted Dr. Carla Martin who offered a presentation titled “Chocolate, Culture and the Politics of Food” and chocolate samples in Pearson Hall last night. Martin is the founder and executive director of the Fine Cacao and Chocolate Institute and a lecturer in the department ...
Several protestors from the Tufts Armenian Club participated in a national "Stain of Denial" protest in the Mayer Campus Center yesterday afternoon to urge recognition of the Armenian Genocide.During the two-hour long protest, students displayed posters with expressions such as "Stop ...
UPDATE: Since the publication of this article, the administration has sent an email out to the student body announcing that these two minor programs have been paused until further notice. The story has been updated accordingly.The lingustics and cognitive brain sciences (CBS) minors have been suspended ...
The Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and a coalition of on-campus political organizations launched Jumbo Vote 2016 this semester, a new initiative to increase voting among Tufts students.Leaders of several on-campus organizations and Tisch College faculty members met on Jan. 27 to ...
Tufts has banned the usage, storage and charging of hoverboards on all three university campuses following a Jan. 12 email announcement to the Tufts community.
Melted PlasticThe fire alarm went off at the Science and Technology Center on Jan. 4 at 2:30 p.m. A staff member was in the machine shop cutting a plastic piece, which began melting and appears to have created some smoke, triggering the smoke detector. The Medford Fire Department looked at the ...
As the fall semester concluded, the Tufts Muslim Student Association (MSA), the University Chaplaincy and Tufts Hillel collected approximately 40 boxes of donations through an Interfaith Clothing Drive for Syrian Refugees. These collected items were sent to NuDay Syria, a non-government organization ...
Last night, Sister Mary Scullion of Philadelphia discussed her experiences advocating for the homeless through Project HOME, an organization she co-founded in 1989. The lecture was held in the Cohen Auditorium as a part of Tufts Hillel's annualMerrin Moral Voices Lecture Series.The lecture began ...
WEDNESDAY"Thrills, Spills and Chills of Post-Disaster Planning in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward"Details: Ken Reardon, director of the graduate program in Urban Planning and Community Development at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, will be speaking about post-disaster planning ...
The International Center welcomed Neriliz Soto González as its third International Student and Scholar Advisor on Jan. 21. In this role, González focuses on programming events and immigration advising.González explained that her goals as a new advisor include running different cultural programs, ...
The Tisch Scholars Program at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service will alter its curriculum by extending its current required course to a full-year foundational class and by offering academic credit for community work in a diversified group of community placements beginning ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met on Sunday, Jan. 31 for the first time of the semester to review relevant updates from the fall semester and discuss its first set of supplementary funding requests from student groups.
Federal investigators found last December that Higher One, the student refund vendor that Tufts partners with, had improperly collected 30 million dollars in fees from students across the United States over the course of around a year and a half. Following the investigation, the Federal Reserve ordered ...
After 40 years of service, Robyn Gittleman retired from her position as Director of the Experimental College (ExCollege) on December 31, 2015. Gittleman explained that she became Director of the ExCollege and the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education in 1975, about five years after her start ...
"Somerville will be the first city in North America to develop its own social progress index," Curtatone said. "We need our stakeholders and allies in the nonprofit world especially along with the innovators to help us understand how we achieve social progress."
Tenured and tenure-track faculty from the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) filed a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last Dec. 11 to hold on campus union elections, which has been challenged by the TUSM administration partially on grounds of legality.
Tufts accepted students from the first pool of Early Decision (ED) applicants last month, marking the fifth time in the last six years that the university has broken or tied the record for the number of first-year applications received.
Changes made to the Federal Perkins Loan Program with the passing of an act through Congress last year on Dec. 17, will raise borrowing costs for students in the Class of 2020.The loan program, which would have expired on Sept. 30 last year, was extended through fiscal year 2016 with the passing ...
Students and faculty remembered the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in an event entitled "Moving the Movement Forward" held yesterday at Goddard Chapel. This year's celebration surrounded five themes: faith and hope, equality, unity and collective action, justice as well as action. The ...
