The Tufts Community Union(TCU) Senate will not be including off-campus travel funding in its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, according to TCU Senator Adam Kochman.Kochman, a junior who serves as the TCU Treasurer, emphasized that the TCU Senate will not be cutting all travel funding, but it ...
Tufts Digital Rights Group is a new group on campus that aims to facilitate discussions of issues of privacy and digital surveillance in the modern era. The group, started by sophomoresAahlad Gogineni and Stephen Michel, seniorCaleb Malchik and alumnus Ian Kelly (A '14) held its first general ...
Former U.S. Ambassador and former Under Secretary of State for Political AffairsThomas Pickering (F '54) presented a keynote address, titled "Russia and Global Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy," on Sunday for the conclusion of the 30th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson Education ...
MONDAY"BME Seminar: Frank Vollmer"Details: Frank Vollmer of the Max-Planck Institute in Germany will speak as part of the Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series.When and Where: 10:00 a.m. -- 11:00 a.m., SciTech Center Room 136.Sponsor: School of Engineering."ME Seminar: Peter Hancock, ...
Tufts Relay for Life will host the spring Jumbonnaroo music festival at Zeta Psi, Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) and Theta Delta Chi (TDX) this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.According to Ben Silver, special events co-chair for Tufts Relay for Life and founder of Jumbonnaroo, the purpose of the music ...
The second annual Fletcher Women’s Leadership Awardwill be presented on March 6 to Amanda Judge (F ’09),the founder of Faire Collection, a New York-based fair trade jewelry company.Leslie Puth (F ’11), the chair of the Fletcher Women’s Leadership Award committee, explained that the committee ...
The 30th AnnualNorris and Margery Bendetson Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Symposium will continue today with two panels in the afternoon and the official introduction and keynote at 6:30 p.m. The topic of this year's EPIIC Symposium is "Russia in the XXI ...
Friday, Feb. 2712:30 p.m.: "The State and the Media," Barnum Hall 0082:30 p.m.: "Russia and Asia: The Bear Looks East?" Barnum Hall 0086:30 p.m.: Welcome, Introductions and Keynote, Cabot Auditorum7:00 p.m.: A Keynote Conversation on the U.S.-Russian Relationship, Cabot Auditorium7:30 ...
Award-winning author Jill Lepore (J '87) delivered a guest lecture about her New York Times bestselling book, The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014), in the Sunny M. Breed Memorial Hall yesterday, Feb. 25 at 4:30 p.m. The event was hosted by the Office of the Provost, the American Studies Program and ...
Before a packed Cohen Auditorium, more than 30 sexual assault survivors shared their stories last night during the second annual iteration of “It Happens Here” at Tufts.Since two Middlebury College students created “It Happens Here” in 2011, an increasing number of colleges nationwide have hosted ...
Last month, Asian cultural and political associations on campus came together for a strategic meeting to discuss the efficiency and success of their executive board structures in achieving their stated goals and missions.The Hong Kong Student Association (HKSA), the Tufts Association of South Asians ...
First-year students Dana Horowitz and Jennifer Sitiaev have been working to create an officially recognized Vegetarian Society, a student group dedicated to generating dialogue on campus about vegetarianism and veganism and fostering a community for vegetarian and vegan students."Our goal ...
Tufts Health Service, beginning last year, has been able to offer prescriptions for two medical interventions designed to combat the prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection (HIV). According to Margaret Higham, the medical director of Tufts Student Health Service, the two interventions consist ...
A university-wide forum will be held this morning, Feb. 25, to examine race, inequality and action. It will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at theGantcher Center and will feature two panel discussions with a consortium of Tufts professors.The forum will explore what the Office of the Provost ...
On Feb. 20, a new feminist reading group at Tufts held its first meeting at the Women's Center, aiming to give participants the opportunity to discuss feminist works and feminism in general.The group, founded by Julia Goldberg and Molly Rothschild, will be holding meetings every other Friday ...
Due to this season's heavy snowfall, the university's Grafton campus, which houses the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, has been closed four times in the past several weeks, which is fewer than the Medford/Somerville campus' six closures. The Grafton campus closed on Jan. 27, Jan. 28, Feb. 2 and Feb. 9.
On Feb. 4, faculty members of the School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering considered a resolution passed by the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate to rename what is currently referred to as Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day.During the meeting, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences ...
Several members of the local community are helping hospitals treat patients with severe infections simply by pooping, thanks to local nonprofit organization OpenBiome.According to OpenBiome Operations Manager Laura Burns (E '14), the organization collects stool samples from donors and ships it ...
The Senior Class Council (SCC), in collaboration with the Tufts Career Center, will be holding "Senior Launch: Professional Skills for Career Success"on Feb. 27 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm in order to assist graduating seniors in their career advancement and job search.According to Senior ...
Earlier this month, students from several universities competed in ID Hack, a hackathon that focused on international development. Of the hundreds of students who participated, eight teams won awards for their projects, which explored solutions for economic and social challenges in developing countries.
