The Tufts La Salsa team will participate in its first interstate competition as entrants in the annualChicago International Salsa Congress, which will be held over this Presidents' Day long weekend.Seven couples on the team are scheduled to compete in the amateur competition this upcoming weekend, ...
ID Hack, a 24-hour hackathon with a focus on international development, will be held at Tufts from Friday at 4 p.m. until Saturday at 4 p.m., according to organizer Morgan Babbs, a senior.
After two days of ballot casting, a sweeping majority of Tufts University full-time, non-tenured faculty voted to form a union on Feb. 12, joining the Faculty Forward project run byService Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 509.The decision, which received a two-to-one margin of support from ...
ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos will be visiting the Hill as the featured guest for this year's 10th annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism, according to Director of Public Relations Kim Thurler. The forum will take place on April 8, though the location and time of ...
The MLK Youth Homelessness Drive, sponsored by the Tufts University Chaplaincy and the Africana Center, wrapped up on Feb. 6 after collecting items for two weeks to benefit Youth on Fire, a drop-in center for homeless and street-involved youth in Cambridge, according to Joie Cummings, a college transition advisorwho served on the committee of staff and students who coordinated the event.
The Brown and Brew Coffee House can now be booked for student events on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 7 p.m. to midnight.The cafe, with a capacity of 80, will be suitable for small events such as acoustic shows, spoken word performances, trivia nights and extended club meetings, according to ...
Tufts' new undergraduate art history journal, "Medium," is set to publish its first edition online in late March, according to "Medium" Editor in Chief Annalie Aplin, a senior. The journal aims to provide a venue for undergraduates to showcase their work and create an art history-specific ...
The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine has announced a new degree program in Infectious Disease and Global Health.The program, led by Saul Tzipori, Chair of the Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, and Abhineet Sheoran, the program's new director, was created due to a need to ...
As record amounts of snowfall continue to fall in the Boston area, Tufts' Facilities Services department and Office of Emergency Management (OEM) have been working together to keep the Medford/Somerville campus accessible by preparing for storms and managing snow removal.According to Geoffrey ...
JuniorDanielle Feerst and senior Robert Wallace were recently awarded the 2014 Paul and Elizabeth Montle Prize for Entrepreneurial Achievement for their businesses, AutismSees LLC and Suisey Fanwear, respectively.The prize awards Feerst and Wallace a total sum equivalent to the cost of Tufts tuition, ...
The Dean of Student Affairs Office is collaborating with the University Chaplaincy to host a training on Feb. 13 that will teach participants how to effectively engage in difficult social justice discussions.Forty students and numerous faculty members are expected to participate in the Facilitating ...
Several Tufts students have partnered with the Office of Residential Life and Learning, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center and the Facilities Services Department to increase the number of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.Allison Aaronson, the Women’s Center Representative for ...
Tonight the Tufts Experimental College (ExCollege), the Humanist Chaplaincy at Tufts, the Tufts Freethought Society and the Boston Area Coalition of Reason will host a conference on humanism in the Tufts Interfaith Center.The organizations developed the idea to teach community members about humanism ...
The Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) partnered with the Vertical Ice Climbing Enthusiasts (VICE) to organize and host the sixth annual Vertical Ice Climbing Enthusiasts' Fest (VICEfest) at the TMC Loj in Woodstock, N.H. this past weekend.According to Jeffrey Longcor (LA ’07), VICEfest's primary ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held a special election yesterday in order to fill several positions which were left open at the end of the fall semester.Junior Kathryn Mueller won the only contested position, the Tufts Community Union judiciary (TCU-J) open seat, with 47 percent of the ...
On Jan. 23, USA TODAY published an article ranking Tufts as the second best college offering a degree in fine or studio arts. The list, compiled by College Factual, also includes institutions such as the Pratt Institute, The New School and Yale University.Tufts offers a studio art minor and a five-year ...
The state of Massachusetts received a second-tier rating of “solidifying equality” in the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) first annual State Equality Index (SEI), a state-by-state critique of legislation affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.States in the “solidifying ...
TuftsLife, a student-run website that centralizes information about campus events, classified advertisements and other pertinent information for students, is offline again after recently returning to full function.Senior Tony Cannistra explained that in order to reestablish TuftsLife as an important ...
Tufts has suspended its efforts to purchase an apartment building located at 119 College Ave after learning that the City of Somerville would oppose the university’s proposaldue to its direct conflict with the city’s comprehensive plan, according to Ward 7 Alderman Katjana Ballantyne.The university ...
Mark Brimhall-Vargas, deputy chief diversity officer at the University of Maryland at College Park, has been appointed to the position of chief diversity officer (CDO) and associate provost at Tufts.
