The Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) recently changed its Loj group use policy, requiring student groups to sign up with a specified number of bunk beds and pay as a unit instead of as individuals.The Loj, located in Woodstock, N.H., is owned by Tufts and run by TMC, according to the TMC website. It houses 48 ...
The Africana Center is holding the inaugural Africana Festival under the theme "We Are Africana" on the Tisch Library Roof this Saturday afternoon.The festival will be sponsored by the recently created Africana Advisory Alliance, an unofficial group formed to connect black affinity groups ...
Tufts remains one of the top 30 schools in the country this year, according to the annual college rankings lists from U.S. News & World Report and Forbes Magazine.The university maintained its No. 27 position on the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best National Universities” list on Sept. ...
Sixty Tufts undergraduates gathered this past weekend for this year's inaugural Tufts Scramble, a two-day on-campus innovation training and brainstorm session, at 51 Winthrop St.The event, which took place Saturday and Sunday, was co-hosted by the Tufts Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies Program ...
For the first time, Tufts students will have classes on Columbus Day, Oct. 12, due to the late start to the semester and student input.While fall classes are usually not held on Columbus Day, Veterans Day or Thanksgiving, Secretary of the Faculty in the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences Jillian ...
Tufts students living off-campus must provide their local addresses to the university on Student Information Services (SIS) in compliance with a City of Somerville ordinance that went into effect on Sept. 1.The Ordinance Regulating University Accountability, passed by the Somerville Board of Aldermen in ...
Returning members of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) who participated in last semester's sit-in protest in Ballou Hall from April 22 to April 24 were placed on probation over the summer recess.Students were notified individually of the disciplinary action on May 15, a week after final exams ended. ...
TEDxSomerville is hosting its third TED talk event, under the theme "Reinvent," in two weeks in Cohen Auditorium.The event from the independent Somerville TEDx chapter will feature 14 speakers from the Somerville area on Sunday, Sept. 27 from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. According to Devin Bramhall, ...
Biomedical and mechanical engineers from Tufts published research this summer that could make inkjet printing a more effective tool for synthesizing medical technologies, with developments for a platform that allows 3D printing for liquid silk.The study, published on June 16 in Advanced Materials ...
Tufts Student Services made several changes to its infrastructure this past summer, reflecting an ongoing effort by the university to improve the quality of assistance and advising provided by Student Services.According to Dean of Student Services Paul Stanton, Student Services has made changes in ...
A crowd packed into the ASEAN Auditorium for the "Inside the Iran Nuclear Deal: Pros, Cons, and Possible Outcomes" discussion last Thursday evening. The event featured three speakers: former National Security Advisor to Israel's Prime Minister Jacob Amidror, former Undersecretary of ...
Rather than collect tickets inside the building as they did last year, event staff processed attendees outside, which increased efficiency, according to Tello. Event staff also added portable bathrooms outside the venue, as well as more ventilation to keep the temperature down.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held its first meeting of the academic year last night, which began with with a brief introduction by TCU President Brian Tesser.Tesser, a senior, talked about the upcoming elections for first-year senators and the trustee representatives, which will take place ...
Miguel Basáñez, former professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, will begin his first day in office today as Mexico’s new ambassador to the United States.Basáñez, who has been at Fletcher since 2008 as the director of the Judicial Reform Program and an adjunct professor, succeeds ...
Tufts Medical Center (MC) officially named and dedicated its new dining pavilion to former Tufts MC Trustee and Governor A. Raymond Tye in a ceremony on Aug. 26.The newly constructed dining pavilion, located on the first floor Atrium of Tufts MC, was funded by the contributions Tye made to Tufts MC ...
Janitors and students continued their fight against janitorial staff cuts this Monday at 10 a.m. with a rally organized by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ and Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC).Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) blocked vehicle traffic as marchers walked from Powderhouse ...
The Chinese House will move this fall to Curtis Street, where it will share a house with Kappa Alpha Theta. The move follows the university's decision to suspend Sigma Nu (SigNu)'s charter at the end of the past academic year, leaving space in the 90-94 Curtis St. house open.Mingquan Wang, ...
The new Film and Media Studies (FMS) major will be open to students this fall as an expansion of the Communications and Media Studies (CMS) minor.According to FMS Co-Director Malcom Turvey, all of the courses offered in CMS are still available in the 12-course FMS major.The major will include core ...
The Joey campus shuttle service will be replaced with a new shuttle program this fall, switching from Joseph’s Limousine & Transportation as a provider to A & A Metro Transportation.
This fall, Alpha Gamma Delta (AGD) will join the Tufts Greek community as the sixth sorority on campus.Informal recruitment for AGD will begin during the fall semester, which will result in a charter class. That class will then participate in formal recruitment in the spring, according to formerPanhellenic ...
