House FireThe Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a house fire at 300 Boston Ave. at 2:57 p.m. on March 9. The department was joined by the Medford Fire Department,Medford Police Department and the Armstrong Ambulance Service. As the case is still under investigation by the Medford ...
The university launched a new Diversity and Inclusion siteon Monday, alongside introducing the newtufts.eduhomepage. The site includes an expansive “Diversity Dashboard” geared toward making university demographics more accessible to the Tufts community members and prospective students.According ...
Nahid Bhadelia (J '99, F '04, M '05) was honored at the third Fletcher Women's Leadership Award Ceremony on Friday, March 11, for her efforts as a physician during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. The honor is awarded annually to an alumna of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met on Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss supplementary funding, a resolution and a project approval request.TCU Senate President Brian Tesser opened the meeting by noting that a housing survey, which is a part of the Senate's ...
Actor, voice actor, comedian and producer Hank Azaria (LA '88) is set to deliver this year's Commencement address on Sunday, May 22. Azaria, who has won five Emmys and a Screen Actors Guild Award, is currently featured in Showtime's "Ray Donovan" and is scheduled to star ...
Tufts University Dance Marathon, sponsored by the Children's Miracle Network (CMN), raised over $3,600 for the Boston Children’s Hospital at its first event Friday. Tickets were sold at the door for $10 per person for the five-hour philanthropic event, which ran from 7 p.m. to midnight ...
Academics, business leaders and diplomats gathered to discuss the future of the Arctic region at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's fifth annual Opening Arctic Conference on Saturday.The conference, which was organized by a group of 15 Fletcher students, was a part of its Warming Arctic ...
TUESDAY"Granting Amnesty to Drug Addicts Seeking Help: The Opioid Crisis in MA and beyond"Details: Gloucester’s Chief of Police Leonard Campanello will be speaking about his department's policy not to charge drug addicts who request help from the department, which has received national ...
Students were introduced to a Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate pilot project last week to provide free feminine hygiene products for emergency use in public bathrooms around campus. The hygiene products, currently stocked in multiple campus bathrooms, include tampons and pads bought in bulk with ...
A new university working group is in the process of gathering student feedback, assessing campus facilities and analyzing the overall residential experience at Tufts in preparation for the creation of a housing master plan by the end of the semester.The working group, comprised of Campus Planning, Facilities ...
Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) staged an educational demonstration yesterday on the Tisch Library Patio as a part of its annual Israeli Apartheid Week.The demonstration involved four stations focusing on the city Hebron in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and a Bedouin community ...
Scratched DoorA staff member reported that the driver's side door of their car had been scratched earlier in the day at 4 p.m. on March 1 in the Pearson Chemical Laboratory parking lot. The person is unsure who scratched the car or how the car got scratched. The staff member had no issues with ...
Joshua Allen, a black transgender-feminine organizer and abolitionist, and CeCe McDonald, a black transgender woman activist, spoke to an audience of over 100 people in the Alumnae Lounge last night as the first stop in their #BlackExcellenceTour, according to the event's Facebook page. The event ...
In keeping with the newest national dietary guidelines, Tufts University Dining Services (TUDS) has elected to add the sugar content to nutrient information cards and remove cholesterol information from them for foods served in dining halls, according to Director of Dining and Business Services ...
As Tufts faculty, alumni and parents arrived at the Four Seasons Hotel on Boylston St. for a Tufts Talks event yesterday evening, they were greeted by approximately 40 Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) members protesting Tufts’ use of non-union contractors. TLC and the Boston Building Trades Council (BTC) have ...
The Muslim Student Association (MSA) has been presenting its annual “Spring into Islam” event series throughout the past month, with its last public event, a cultural calligraphy night, occurring this Wednesday evening. The series has included workshops, discussions, interfaith programming, ...
Tufts students gathered in Hotung Café on Friday to commemorate the lives of three Sudanese-American men who were murdered in Fort Wayne, Indiana on Feb. 24 — 23-year old Mohamedtaha Omar, 20-year old Adam Kamel Mekki and 17-year old Muhannad Adam Tairab.The purpose of the event, titled "Our ...
The Film and Media Studies (FMS) program and the Career Center hosted the annual “On the Air: Media Careers for the Networked Generation” event, where Tufts alumni spoke about their careers in the media industry, last Friday afternoon. The event featured a keynote panel, two panel sessions and ...
MONDAY"Imagining synthetic biology futures and making them real" Details: As a part of the inaugural "Technoscience and the State" course, several professionals will be discussing their experiences in the synthetic biology field. Guest speakers include Christina Agapakis, creative ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night to discuss supplementary funding requests and appeals, as well as a project approval.TCU Senate President Brian Tesser opened the meeting by saying that the housing survey from the external firm, Sasaki Associates, which Tesser first brought up to ...
