MONDAY"An Evening with Temple Grandin: My Life with Animals"Details: Dr. Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science and lecturer on autism and humane animal handling, will be giving a talk about the role that animals have had on her life and work. Grandin is also an author, activist ...
Students from Tufts Amnesty International joined hundreds of Amnesty International members and activists who attended the 39th annual Northeast Regional Conference at Boston University on Nov. 7.According to President of Tufts Amnesty Stina Stannik, Amnesty International is the largest grassroots human ...
Discussions are currently underway to implement a Mindfulness House, a potential on-campus special interest house based around the Buddhist concept of mindfulness. The project, spearheaded by junior Khuyen Bui, would allow for a maximum of 10 people.Bui explained that he wanted to create a Mindfulness ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate agreed to provide funding to continue the Late Night Dining program after discussing changes to campus shuttle routes and supplementary funding requests at its Sunday night meeting.TCU President Brian Tesser opened the meeting with updates on the ad-hoc residential ...
Almost 100 members of the Tufts community, mainly undergraduate students, participated in a hand-washing study over a 28-day period in October and November for research in ebola outbreak prevention.According to first-year Ph.D. student Marlene Wolfe, who is working on the study, the purpose ...
Leaders of Wednesday’s march to Porter Square, organized under the name of #thethreepercent, released a more detailed version of their demands of the Tufts administration yesterday. The demands, which were first announced in the Mayer Campus Center during the demonstration, include increasing the ...
Faculty in the Department of Romance Languages approved a new Portuguese minor on Wednesday amid declining student interest in the department as a whole.The Portuguese minor, which will become available for students next semester, may help maintain enrollment in Portuguese courses, according to Portuguese ...
Professor Fatima El-Tayeb of University of California at San Diego gave a lecture on the intersectionality of race, religion and sexuality, as well as the persistence of racism in Europe, at the Interfaith Center Tuesday evening.The Nov. 17 lecture, titled “Queer Life of Diaspora,” was hosted ...
The second annual workshop of the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora (RCD) will be a symposium titled “Social Movements and the Black Intellectual Tradition” tomorrow afternoon at Breed Memorial Hall at 51 Winthrop St.
The Tufts Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) chapter has voted to disaffiliate from its national organization due to a misalignment of goals and values with the national fraternity.According to SigEp President Shawn Patterson and SigEp brother Ben Kaplan, the decision to disaffiliate was supported by 95 ...
BREAKING: Tufts students walk out of classes for #StudentBlackOut. Follow for live #thethreepercent coverage. #TuftsWithTheThree
Tufts Amnesty International hosted a keynote and panel discussion about solitary confinement and human rights in Barnum Hall Monday evening.The event, entitled "Voices from Solitary: Think Outside the Box," was presented in partnership with the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), the ...
Tufts participants in Generation Citizen (GC) helped coach middle and high school students at GC's second annual all-day Civic Tech Challenge at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center on Nov. 7.According to sophomore Julie Murray, Tufts GC outreach coordinator, Generation ...
Tufts Concert Board announced last week that the sixth annual Cage Rage concert on Dec. 5 will feature indie band Lucius as its headliner, with musical duo You Won’t and English singer-songwriter Dan Croll as the concert's openers.The announcement of the concert lineup was made through a scavenger ...
More than 400 people, including Tufts students, joined the Boston University (BU) "Blackout: Mizzou We Stand With You" solidarity rally held last Friday afternoon. The event follows weeks of protest over escalating racial tensions and threats of violence toward students of color at the ...
Local politicians spoke at a panel event on women's leadership in politics as a part of the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series in the Alumnae Lounge Thursday evening.The Nov. 12 public event, titled “Women in Politics,” was hosted by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship ...
The African Student Organization (ASO) hosted its 12th annual Break the Stage step competition for step dance teams from colleges across New England on Nov. 7 in Cohen Auditorium.Over 450 tickets were sold for the event, and many people had to be turned away at the door, according to junior Janeth ...
Hundreds of people, including Tufts students, attended a vigil at Boston Common yesterday afternoon to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night.Several Massachusetts political figures were in attendance, including Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, Governor Charlie Baker, U.S. ...
President of the Tufts Community Union (TCU) SenateBrian Tesser opened Sunday night’s Senate meeting with a statement about the ongoing student protests at the University of Missouri (Mizzou) and Yale University over racial injustices on those campuses.Tesser, a senior, said that it is important ...
MONDAY"Voices from Solitary: Think Outside the Box"Details: The event will focus on learning about solitary confinement in a human rights context, featuring a panel of speakers including John Artis, the co-defendant in the prominent case of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, representatives ...
