MONDAY"BME Seminar: Charles Lai"Details: Charles Lai from Massachusetts General Hospital will speak as part of the Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series.When and Where: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., SciTech Center Room 136Sponsor: School of Engineering"2015 Leontief Prize: Macroeconomics in ...
Tufts Prison Divestment Coalition, an organization recently formed by multiple student groups, has launched a petition calling for Tufts to divest from private prison corporations. The coalition is a joint effort between Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI), Students for Justice in Palestine ...
During a meeting with Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) members on March 10, Tufts and DTZ administration revealed a plan to increase cleaning efficiency at Tufts' three campuses, which would result in cutting a number of part-time janitorial jobs. Concerned students and workers protested the cuts ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate’s decision to cut off-campus travel and related expenses from student groups’ budgets next year has elicited strong reactions from many student organizations, especially from members of groups that rely heavily on travel to inter-school competitions.
JumBonnaroo, a three-night music festival and fundraiser for Relay For Life, took place last weekend in spite of an Interfraternity Council (IFC) ban on all Greek life social events for that weekend.
Former U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) took part in a discussion with Alan Solomont (LA ’70), the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, yesterday afternoon in the Alumnae Lounge. The event was the sixth installment of the Tisch College ...
Two Tufts sophomores seeking a space to discuss body positivity have founded a new group, JumBodies, this semester.Co-PresidentsEmma Coltoff and Nikhil Nandagopal met during their first year on the Hill and spent much of last summer discussing body image issues on campus."We spent hours just discussing ...
On Wednesday, March 11, Tufts for Hillary hosted a panel discussion entitled “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: An Analysis of Women in American Politics.” Speakers included Deborah Schildkraut, a professor of political science; Virginia Drachman, a professor of history; and Ronna Johnson, lecturer in ...
Members of the Li Zeng Lab at the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, in collaboration with Umar Mahmood’s lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, have been researching a new method of arthritis diagnosis for the past two years.According ...
Dozens of janitors and students, as well as two Service Employees International Union (SEIU) representatives, gathered outside of Brown and Brew today and marched down Boston Ave. to Tufts Facilities Services building to protest proposed cuts of janitorial jobs.Protestors marched in a circle outside ...
A panel of four international experts on Nigerian politics and military discussed the merits of current and proposed international responses to the ongoing atrocities committed by extremist group Boko Haram and others in northeast Nigeria and the surrounding region as part of "Understanding ...
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center hosted a town hall meeting in conjunction with representatives from the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on March 5 to discuss student experiences with housing, bathrooms and other campus facilities and the need for more gender-neutral options ...
The new graduate student lounge in Curtis Hall celebrated its opening on Feb. 26. The lounge's opening was attended by graduate students and graduate directors, and it also featured a visit from University President Anthony Monaco.According to Burns Healy, president of the Graduate Student Council ...
The Tufts Communion Union (TCU) Senate’s Sunday night meetingopened with an appearance from University President Anthony Monaco, who discussed Tufts’ ongoing implementation of its 2013 strategic plan.In accordance with the school's capital projects, Monaco reaffirmed the university’s efforts ...
Montane Silverman and Noa Yee, members of Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS), won the Richard W. Vomacka Student Speaker competition at the 22nd annual National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation (NCEMSF)conference, which took place from Feb. 27 to March 1 in Baltimore, Md.According ...
A new group in the LGBT Center provides a support and discussion space for students who exchange letters with queer prisoners through the organization Black and Pink.“Black and Pink is a national organization … where members of the queer community of the free world can come and support members ...
The newly-rewritten Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary bylaws, which are meant to hold student groups more accountable and which were recently approved by the Committee on Student Life (CSL), are now going into effect.The Judiciary is holding two question-and-answer sessions to further clarify ...
MONDAY"BME Seminar: Mariah Hahn"Details: Mariah Hahn of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be speaking as part of the Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series.When and Where: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., SciTech Center Room 136Sponsor: School of Engineering"Sounding the Inexpressible: Postwar ...
Hundreds of participants turned out for Read by the River, Tufts’ annual literacy carnival, which took place yesterday in the Gantcher Center from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.The goal of the carnival, an initiative of Tufts Hillel, is to get kids from kindergarten to fifth grade excited about reading, according ...
The Tufts Lawyers Association (TLA) hosted its 12th annual Law Day on the Hill event on Thursday, March 5 in Alumnae Lounge, with the goal of teaching interested students about law school and the legal profession and providing an opportunity for networking, according to Associate Director for Pre-professional ...
