Nearly 300 students participated in the annual PolyHack hackathon at the Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC) last Friday night and Saturday morning.The event, hosted by the Tufts Computer Science Exchange (CSX), provided an opportunity for Tufts students from all disciplines to ...
Human Connections, a non-profit organization founded by Tufts alumni, is currently recruiting students for a trip to the Sierra region of Ecuador during spring break this upcoming March.According to faculty trip leader Adam Grenier, the upcoming trip, which is organized by both Human Connections and ...
Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University professor and president emeritus of Harvard University, spoke as a part of the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series to a full crowd at Alumnae Lounge yesterday evening. It was co-sponsored by the Department of Economics and the International ...
Disciplinary action against two Tufts Climate Action (TCA) members for their involvement in the sit-in protest in University President Anthony Monaco’s office last April was reduced following an appeal hearing last Friday.
Tufts University School of Medicine's student-run health education program the Sharewood Project completed a two-week-long online silent auction yesterday.The Sharewood Project also provides free healthcare to underserved clients, according to Sharewood General Project Director Ariel Lefland.“It ...
Dr. Craig Best will assume his new role as president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center’s 500-doctor Physicians Organization (PO) in January, a year and a half after Tufts Medical Center started its search to fill the position.Best, who is currently the medical director, business development lead ...
The Tufts administration’s hiring of non-union workers and companies for university construction projects has been challenged by protest efforts since this summer in the form of flyers, signs and, in the past two weeks, mobile billboard trucks on campus.These actions have been organized by the ...
TUESDAY"Larry Summers: Tisch Distinguished Speaker Series"Details: Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University and the President Emeritus of Harvard, will speak as part of the Tisch College distinguished speaker series. Summers, who was also the ...
Students from Tufts Students for National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), a chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, joined a total of approximately 20 people to protest at a rally for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Tyngsborough, Mass. on Oct. 16.According to Tufts Students for ...
Enrollment in the center has indeed decreased dramatically over the past year. According to a document circulated in a meeting with Tufts School Arts and Sciences Dean James Glaser last August, enrollment dropped from its full capacity of 82 under TEDCC to 68 total children immediately after the transition. Currently, Bright Horizons Teele Square enrolls only 54 children—28 slots under the center’s average capacity.
An audience of about 60 gathered to hear Mark Feeney, a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Boston Globe, speak at the second installment of the second annual Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s “Free Thinkers” series in Barnum Hall last night.
A panel of union organizers addressed students and community members Tuesday night about union organization at Tufts. The talk covered the university's decision to renegotiate custodial staff contracts that garnered widespread attention last spring.The panel was hosted by Rubén Stern, director ...
Economist Dr. Raj Chetty spoke at this year's Wellington Burham Lecture about equality of opportunity in America at 51 Winthrop St. on Oct. 15. The lecture, titled "Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: New Evidence and Policy Lessons," was sponsored by the Tufts Department ...
There have been more instances of reported bicycle theft so far this year, compared to total thefts in previous years.According to statistics provided by Tufts University Police Department (TUPD), there have have been 23 reported bicycle thefts since January, an increase from the 20 reported thefts ...
Balance Your Life (BYL) hosted Caitlin Boyle, founder of the Operation Beautiful movement, as the keynote speaker for a body positivity presentation in Goddard Chapel on the evening of Oct. 15.Boyle's Operation Beautiful is a movement that strives "to end negative self-talk" by leaving ...
Dr. James Munro, an assistant professor of molecular biology at the Tufts Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, was recently granted the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award of $1.5 million to study the transmission of Ebola.According to Dr. Ravi Basavappa, a ...
Tufts Ornithological Society (TOS), which held its inaugural meeting on Oct. 15, is a newly founded group for students interested in ornithology. According to TOS founder and President Henry Stevens, the group has already generated student interest, with 18 interested people contacting Stevens within ...
Medford mayoral candidates Stephanie Muccini Burke and Robert Penta faced off in the city’s first debate of its kind in 28 years at the Chevalier Theater on Oct. 15.
Tufts Black Alumni Association (TBAA) held a launch event on the evening of Oct. 10 to mark the second year of the group’s mentorship program, which aims to prepare students for the professional world through connections with alumni.The event took place in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room and ...
The Office of Student Life will hold an Off-Campus Housing (OCH) Fair this Saturday afternoon to provide information to students about living off-campus, following a related information session held by the Sophomore Class Council last week.A number of different officials, including city inspectors, ...
