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, ...
The university has withdrawn an honorary degree and children's media award from former stand-up comedian Bill Cosby, following revelations this summer that Cosby admitted in 2005 court documents that he gave drugs to women with whom he wanted to have sex.In an email to the Tufts community yesterday, ...
Members of the Tufts Debate Society won the Yale Inter-Varsity (IV) Debate Tournament, held at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. on Oct. 4. Two other members also reached the final round of the Harvard American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) Tournamentlast weekend.First-years John Goulandris ...
Lewis Hall is undergoing inspection by Tufts Facilities for cracks in the dormitory’s roof, which will be replaced during the summer as a part of larger on-campus construction and renovation projects.This week’s inspection, which started Tuesday and ends today, follows a previous inspection conducted ...
Debating International Relations and Exploring Current Trends (DIRECT), a new student group devoted to international relations (IR), was formed this fall in order to explore global current events and facilitate discussion using international relations theories.The group, started by sophomores Jacob ...
The annual Asian Health Symposium, this year entitled "Together: Strengthening the Health of Chinatown," will be held at the university's School of Medicine this Friday.The symposium is hosted by the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Addressing Disparities ...
