From April 15 to April 30, Health Service will be offering free HIV testing to students. The free testing aims to raise awareness about the importance of getting tested for HIV, in order to begin treatment and to prevent further transmission of the virus.According to Michelle Bowdler, senior director ...
From April 17 to 19, the Tufts chapter of the Archimedes Project will host a weekend-long Ideation Lab on “Technologies for Clean Water and Sanitation in India.”The Archimedes Project is a national organization that develops social ventures to increase and maintain clean drinking water access ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate began its last meeting of the 2014-2015 session by honoring Dean of Campus Life and Leadership Bruce Reitman,who is retiring at the end of this school year.TCU President Robert Joseph delivered a speech celebrating the over three decades that Reitman has spent at ...
Tufts Relay For Life (RFL)hosted its all-night cancer fundraising event in the Gantcher Center. The event began at 6 p.m. Friday and lasted until 6 a.m. Saturday.
MONDAY"BME Seminar: Darren Roblyer"Details: Darren Roblyer, of Boston University, 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 EngineeringWEDNESDAY"Advancing the frontiers of citizenship, ...
Tufts Institute for Innovation (TII) hosted its first Annual Student Symposium, titled "Research, Innovation and Community Engagement," on Friday, April 10. The event featured welcoming remarks, keynote address speakers, panel discussions and poster sessions.TII Deputy Director Lauren Linton ...
Tufts' Student Information System (SIS) was recently updated for the Fall 2015 semester registration period, which is currently underway, in order to improve how students search for classes.“We do an annual survey with satisfaction with SIS, and class search was hands down the most confusing ...
The Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) will be hosting Kids' Day for children in the Medford, Somerville and Chinatown communities tomorrow, April 11. The event will be for kindergartners through third graders.Kids' Day has been an annual event for 52 years, according to Co-Coordinator Adam ...
ABC News' Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos discussed a variety of topics pertaining to his two main areas of expertise, journalism and politics, as this year's guest at the Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism. The forum marked its 10 year anniversary yesterday, April 8, with ...
On April 7, the Medford City Council unanimously voted on a resolution to ask Tufts University to re-evaluate its plans to cut 35 part-time janitors from its staff.Councilor Adam Knight proposed the resolution at the public meeting. Knight, who attended the Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) Forum in March, ...
The Leonard Carmichael Society (LCS) will host a spring fundraiser at Fenway Park, called "LCS Takes Fenway," for the Red Sox April 27 game against the Toronto Blue Jays.Junior Skyler Bast, co-presisdent of LCS, described the event as a good opportunity for students to give back to the ...
Covered in a black tarp, the new Jumbo statue arrived on Tufts campus earlier this afternoon. According to a tweet by the university in response to Tufts Daily reporter Nicholas Pfosi, the statue will be installed tomorrow morning.This is a developing story. The Daily will update this post when more ...
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.
