This upcoming academic year, ChildObesity180, an organization at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy that strives to facilitate research on childhood obesity prevention, will officially debut the New Balance Foundation Billion Mile Race at schools across the United States.Based on ...
On March 27, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin released a blog post via the Tufts Admissions website detailing the statistics that set apart the newly-selected class of 2019, as admissions decisions were released to applicants on March 30.Coffin explained that this year’s admissions pool ...
This past Friday, the Tufts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hosted the “Know Your Rights” event, in which guest speakers Nashwa Gewaily and Professor of History Peniel Joseph informed students how to navigate their civil rights while protesting and interacting with police.
On March 1, the second NESCAC Alcohol Survey was administered at Tufts and nine other schools in the NESCAC, including Amherst College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury College and Williams College. According to Dean of Student Affairs Mary ...
MONDAY"Tisch Talks in the Humanities: Generative Empathies"Details: Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University Doris Sommer will join Amahl Bishara, assistant professor of anthropology and Peter Levine, Tisch College associate dean for research in a discussion on the ...
The Green T at Tufts Design Charette, to be held on April 1, will invite members of the Tufts community to share their ideas about the future of the Boston Ave. and College Ave. intersection, where an MBTA Green Line T stop is slated to be built by 2019, according to Betsy Byrum, the education and ...
In a March 18 letter addressed to all members of the Tufts community, the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President announced the key details of a new International Travel Safety Policy, which is effective immediately.The policy is meant to present a structure for fostering safe international ...
Last Thursday and Friday, artist and activist Avram Finkelstein led students in creating a public work to make a statement on racism and race privilege in the United States. The event, which Finkelstein termed a "flash collective," was a collaboration between the Tufts Art Gallery and ...
Yesterday, Tufts custodial employees, students and community members marched from Brown and Brew to Ballou Hall to protest proposed layoffs and changes in custodial employee schedules.DTZ, the organization that manages Tufts' custodial services, recently proposed 35 layoffs and 56 job changes in ...
Just before spring break, out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) hosted the president of the oSTEM National Board, Eric Patridge, who discussed the need to build LGBT+ communities within science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.“[Patridge's] statistics gave ...
A group of students spent their spring break on an Experimental College-led trip in Bucerias, Mexico. The goal of the trip was to give students a better understanding of microfinance.The trip's attendees included sophomores Lara LoBrutto and Sara Pearce-Probst and senior Gabriella Zoia, who is ...
Hoping to provide a creative outlet for people of marginalized identities, first-years Sandy Yin and Jennifer Lee recently founded Parade, Tufts’ newest and currently unrecognized literary magazine, this semester.While open to all identities and perspectives, the magazine intends to prioritize submissions ...
The Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH) Study released a report on March 4 titled "Improving the Health of Near-Highway Communities" which "seeks to enact positive changes at the community level and disseminate research results regionally, starting with near-highway ...
The Tufts Economics Society, Tufts Financial Network (TFN) and SovereigNET will come together to host “The Future of American Superpower: Implications for Security, Politics and Markets" tonight. The event will feature Ian Bremmer, founder and president of the Eurasia Group, and James Stavridis, ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution earlier this month to increase housing support for students pursuing summer research opportunities.The resolution, which was submitted by TCU Senator Michael Zalesne, sophomore Yimin Zhang and first-year Hayley Carabello on March 8, calls for ...
Dean of the School of Engineering Linda Abriolahas been appointed to the position of University Professor in recognition of her work as a school leader and researcher, University Provost David Harris told the Tufts community in an announcement released yesterday. The title of University Professor ...
Remco Chang and Qiaobing Xu, assistant professors in computer science and biomedical engineering, respectively, received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, giving them grants to pursue research in their fields.Chang is an assistant professor of computer science who received the award ...
Tufts has begun construction on a new Central Energy Plant (CEP), which will use high-efficiency cogeneration technology and will be located beside the existing one next to Dowling Hall.According to Lauren Martin, communications specialist at the Office of Sustainability, the 2013 Campus Sustainability ...
Recently, student organizations including GlobeMed, Tufts Timmy Global Health and BUILD: India worked with Dining Services to host an event at Carmichael Dining Center called “A Taste of Global Health," according to Dining Services' Nutrition and Marketing Specialist Julie Lampie.With ...
Wild Wild WestAt 11:49 p.m. on Feb. 18, there was a report of a strong odor of marijuana emanating from a room in West Hall. Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers located the room and knocked on the door. The student who answered the door explained that he did not know where the smell was ...
