Over 20 students have declared majors in the new Film and Media Studies (FMS) major since the beginning of the school year.The official launch of the new program was celebrated in the Tisch Library and Ballou Hall on Oct. 30 and featured workshops for students and opportunities to engage with alumni. ...
Nino Testa, director of the LGBT Center, opened the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting last night with a workshop on gender pronouns and how to create a safer environment on Tufts' campus.Every senator introduced themselves with their pronoun series at the beginning of the meeting. Testa ...
Student members of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) gathered outside Ballou Hall during a Board of Trustees meeting on Saturday afternoon to protest Tufts’ investments in fossil fuels.
MONDAY"Questions of Faith: Religion, Diasporas, and Colonialism"Details: A panel of speakers will explore how marginalized people have retooled or rejected the impact of colonialism and missionary activity in the past with current social movements. Moderated by Dr. Heather Curtis, associate ...
Tufts Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) held its second annual Civil-Military Affairs Conference to discuss civil-military relations and the role of the military last Friday and Saturday.The conference’s theme this year was “Where Do We Go From Here: Post-Conflict ...
Jeffrey Smith, a professor at the New School and a former Missouri state senator, spoke about his book on reforming America’s prison system in a presentation in the Crane Room on Thursday night.The event, titled "Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What my year behind bars taught me about the America's ...
There has been a decrease in the total number of neighborhood noise complaints received by Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) since students received an email from Student Affairs on Sept. 25.In the email to the community, Director of Public and Environmental Safety Kevin Maguire and Dean ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held a special election yesterday to fill one seat on the TCU Judiciary and the Women's Center representative position.According to Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) Chair Paige Newman, 10.95 percent of the eligible student body voted, with 636 students voting ...
Nancy Bauer, philosophy professor and dean of academic affairs for Arts and Sciences, discussed her new book "How to Do Things With Pornography" in the Hirsch Reading Roomyesterday afternoon. "How to Do Things With Pornography" was released this past April. Bauer was the second ...
A Tufts junior is being recognized at the seventh annual Global Peter Drucker Forum for winning the 2015 Global Peter Drucker Challenge. The Drucker Forum is held today and tomorrow in Vienna, Austria.
Approximately 80 people attended a presentation on Kurdistan by Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s representative to the United States, in the ASEAN Auditorium Tuesday evening.The talk, “Kurdistan: The New Player in the Middle East?,” was hosted by the Fares Center ...
The Tufts LGBT Center peer leader program Team Q, in collaboration with Tufts Film Series, organized the second Halloween production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show to a full house in Barnum Hall on Friday.According to Shakura Cox, one of the Team Q peer leaders and organizers of the show, ...
The environmental studies department has announced its plans to unveil a new Food Systems and Nutrition minor that will be released in the fall of 2016.
Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone was invited to campus to lead a guest lecture in a sophomore political science seminar on Monday morning, as well as a lunch with students.
Tufts’ chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is currently planning a new five-year project in Tanzania, with the goal of improving rural water access.According to Thomas DePalma, a sophomore and project leader, two EWB members will travel to Tanzania in January 2016 for an assessment trip. The ...
Approximately 50 people gathered outside of Gifford House on Halloween evening to call for fair labor practices on Tufts' campuses.The group -- organized by the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) -- included students, custodial workers and their children and a few construction workers from non-Tufts ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) finished its process of hiring two more Area Residence Directors (ARDs) earlier this month.According to Director of ResLife Yolanda King, the two new ARDs are Donisha Thaxton for Area Four (Lewis Hall and South Hall) and Mohamed Barakat for Area ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution allowing students to select their own gender identity and pronouns in all Tufts systems, such as the Student Information System (SIS), during its meeting last night.Before discussing the resolution, Senate first spent some time in passing ...
MONDAY"Fall 2015 Lyon & Bendheim Alumni Lecture Series"Details: As a part of Tufts alumni-established Lyon & Bendheim Alumni Lecture Series, Emanuel Stern (LA '85) will be giving a lecture. Stern is the Managing Principal at the New York City-based real estate investment firm Tall ...
Members of Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) disrupted "Taste of Israel," an annual event hosted by Friends of Israel (FOI) that is intended to introduce students to Israeli culture and food, in the Carmichael Hall lounge last Thursday.Foods such as falafel, hummus, fresh ...
