The African Students Organization (ASO), Caribbean Students Organization (CSO) and Cape Verde Students Association (CVSA) will host Mr. and Ms. Disapora: An Afro-Diasporic Culture Show and Pageant on April 4 in Cohen Auditorium.
The Maine Track MD Program, a program run in partnership between Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and Maine Medical Center (MMC), saw its third cohort of students matched into residency programs on Match Day this year.In an email to the Daily, TUSMDean for Educational Affairs Scott Epstein ...
Tufts United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ) held a rally on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. on the Lower Campus Center Patio for National Institutions Coming Out Day in Support of Undocumented Education Equity. Speakers at the rally included UIJ President Zobella Vinik, former UIJ President Liz Palma, Latino Center ...
This year's annual Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) Walk for Change, which aims to raise donations to support the center's operations, will be taking place on Sunday.Executive Director of BARCC Gina Scaramella explained that the walk, which starts at 9:30 a.m., is five kilometers ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting opened last night with a presentation on the new Tufts Student Experience website project, which will be implemented in the next academic semester.Student Services Communications Specialist Caitlin Felsman Pfitzer presented the revamp plan of the Student ...
The eighth annualtwo-day China-U.S. Symposium will take place this weekend. It will feature a variety of panels on topics related to U.S.-China relations based on this year's theme, "Common Ground." The symposium, which is presented by the Sino-U.S. Relations Group Engagement (SURGE), ...
At the 60th anniversary of the Tufts University Alumni Association’s (TUAA) Senior Awards Ceremony on March 28, 51 Winthrop Street was dedicated as a function space in honor of Alison "Sunny" M. Breed (J '66, G '72), according to Timothy Brooks, executive director of Alumni ...
ChildObesity180, an organization at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy that works to reduce rates of childhood obesity on a national level, is reaching new stages in the implementation of two of its initiatives.
The Environmental Studies Program is hosting a university-wide event on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) entitled "Future Food: Eco-friendly GMOs” in collaboration with the Community Health Program and the International Relations Program with support from the Office of the Provost this ...
Pop artist Kesha is scheduled to headline this year’s Spring Fling concert on April 25. Her performance will follow opening acts Lion Babe, an R&B artist, and MisterWives, a former ’80s cover band. It is no accident that women are dominating this year’s lineup, Concert Board Co-Chairs Matt ...
MONDAY"Revelation or preparation: multiple readings of musical information"Details: Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College David Sanford will present this semester's final installation of the Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series. Lunch will be served after Sanford's lecture.When ...
Thirteen of the fourteen Greek life houses on campus have signed up to be part of the GreECO Reps collaborative. Ellen Osborn, a junior, created the GreECO Reps as a spin-off of the Tufts Eco-Reps that are currently present in Tufts housing.Osborn explained that she launched the GreECO Reps last semester ...
The Beautiful GameAt 7:12 p.m. on March 27, the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report of a minor injury sustained by a student at the Mayer Campus Center. The student had been playing ping pong when the injury occurred. In pursuit of a ping pong ball, he had run into a TV, causing ...
Following a series of lotteries beginning Feb. 2, the two-month-long housing selection process for the 2015-2016 school year draws to a close with a final Catch All lottery beginning on April 13.The lottery and on-campus housing systems, which fall under the jurisdiction of the Office of Residential ...
A new anthropology course, Anthropology 161: Fieldwork Lab, will be offered next fall. The course, which was proposed by Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Cathy Stanton at the anthropology department faculty meeting on March 11, will teach traditional anthropological fieldwork methods to students.According ...
Tufts University Police Department (TUPD)is continuing to investigate an incident of anti-Semitic graffiti, which took place outside the Theta Delta Chi (123) house at 123 Packard Ave. last Saturday, March 28.TUPD officers received a report of a vandalism incident at 9:50 a.m. that morning from the ...
Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, whose 17-year-old son Trayvon Martin was fatally shot three years ago, opened up about their grief and their commitment to combating the pervasiveness of racial and ethnic profiling during Tufts Hillel’seighth annual Merrin Distinguished Lecture Series in Cohen Auditorium ...
Tufts Labor Coalition’s (TLC) Public Forum last Friday, March 27 brought a large crowd to Braker Hall 001 to challenge Tufts’ proposed cuts to the janitorial budget. Students, janitors, parents, alumni and administrators gathered at 2:30 p.m. to share their opinions, demonstrate their opposition ...
Alpha Omicron Pi (AOII) will host Month of Kindness this April, during which members of the sorority will be performing acts of kindness on campus such as giving out candy and doing favors for people.“The goal [of Month of Kindness] is to promote happiness and well-being across Tufts and bridge ...
This spring, Tufts is working to improve its waste management program with a new "trash buddy" initiative. This program -- which several other colleges and universities across the nation have adopted -- is being implemented on the Boston, Grafton and Medford/Somerville campuses.The program ...
