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 ...
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 ...
