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 ...
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 ...
