The newly established local Tufts fraternity Pi Delta is adjusting to its place on campus after disaffiliating from the national fraternity organization Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) last winter.Former AEPi members voted unanimously to disaffiliate and finalized their decision through the Office of Fraternity ...
Computer science has become the most popular undergraduate major at Tufts, ahead of international relations, which had been the biggest major at the university for the past decade.There were 466 declared computer science majors in the spring of last semester -- slightly more than the 464 declared ...
The Area Residence Director (ARD) system implemented last year by the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) has run into staffing issues as it transitions away from the former Residence Hall Directors system.Under the new system, four full-time ARDs have replaced 10 part-time Residence Directors ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held an election yesterday to fill five openings on the Freshman Class Council, to select seven first-year senator seats and to fill three Community Representative positions.According to Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) Chair Paige Newman, 44.88 percent of the ...
The Student Judicial Process, which holds students and student organizations accountable for violations of university and local policies, was revised over the summer recess by the Student Affairs Office.According to Judicial Affairs Administrator Mickey Toogood, most of the process has remained the ...
On-campus housing has approached maximum capacity this semester, putting many first-year and transfer students in overflow housing and nontraditional first-year housing.Yolanda King, Director of the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife), said there are currently 12 available beds on ...
Journalist Kelly Golnoush Niknejad spoke about her career and the creation of the Tehran Bureau, a Boston-founded independent news organization covering news on Iran and the Iranian diaspora, in the Rabb Room last night.The talk, "Tehran Bureau: Beyond Crisis Reporting," was sponsored by Middle ...
A Tufts chapter of the nonprofit Petey Greene Program, an organization focused on supplementing education in local correctional institutions with the help of graduate and undergraduate students, will make its debut on campus this fall. Amanda Borquaye, who hopes to open conversation about the ...
The Tufts University School of Medicine will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of its M.D./M.B.A. program later this year.Harris Berman, the dean of the School of Medicine, said the M.D./M.B.A. program began in 1995 as a way to recognize the need for physicians who were going to be managers in ...
The fourth annual Tufts Century Ride brought together approximately 70 students, faculty and alumni from the Tufts community on a bike ride last Friday.This year's ride was organized by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris and his office in collaboration with the Tufts Cycling Team and ...
A new prayer room has opened in Curtis Hall this fall to provide a space for ritual Muslim prayers during weekdays.The space's proximity to other academic buildings makes it easily accessible, allowing support for student practices and rituals, according to Muslim Chaplain Celene Ibrahim.“It ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met last night to tackle its first set of supplementary funding requests from student groups.Senior Brian Tesser, president of TCU Senate, opened Sunday’s meeting by welcoming the three newly elected trustee representatives and updating the Senate on general ...
Early on the morning of May 31, the university’s emergency alert system notified the community about a stabbing in the fraternity house of Delta Tau Delta (DTD). Since then, the house has been vacant and information about the incident and its investigation has been scant. According to DTD president ...
Hopeful candidates for open TCU Senate seats will turn in their candidacy petitions today in order to become verified as official candidates and begin campaigning for next Wednesday's election.The available positions include seven seats for first-year Senate representatives, five seats on the ...
Members of the Tufts community gathered yesterday afternoon to commemorate the life of James G. Ennis, a longtime Tufts sociology professor, at the Granoff Family Hillel Center.The memorial ceremony was officiated by university RabbiJeffrey Summit.Ennis, who was 62, passed away unexpectedly after ...
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 ...
