The Palo Alto-based food delivery startup DoorDash brought its services to Somerville residents and Tufts students this week. The website and accompanying app, founded in Jan. 2013 by three students at Stanford University, acts as a medium between customers and small restaurants without sufficient ...
The sixth annual Trek to Talloires exercise program began on Jan. 1 and will continue until April 10.
The new statue of Tufts' mascot, Jumbo the elephant, is not expected to arrive on campus until April. While the statue was originally scheduled to be installed and unveiled in October of last year, it has been delayed due to construction difficulties, according to Director of Public Relations ...
Tufts community members came together on Tuesday for a panel discussion, entitled "One Goal, Many Paths: Addressing the Challenge of Educational Inequity," which featured three panelists from different educational backgrounds. The event, which took place in the Lincoln Filene Center Rabb ...
The Tufts Dental Facilities Serving Individuals with Disabilities (TDF), the network of dental clinics associated with Tufts University, recently won an award for Outstanding Achievement as part of the 2015William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation and Achievement.The award will be presented ...
President Barack Obama delivered the White House’s annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, laying out a series of proposals and goals for the remaining two years of his term.Speaking to members of both houses of Congress and their guests in the House of Representatives chamber, Obama began ...
Students and colleagues have spent much of the past week mourning and celebrating the life of William Martel, an associate professor of international security studies at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, who passed away Jan. 12 after battling leukemia.Described by Dean of the Fletcher ...
The Office of Sustainability (OOS) recently revamped its Green Office Certification Program and held an awards ceremony on Jan. 8 for offices that took part in the OOS' Green Office Certification Challenge, which ran from August to November 2014.Betsy Byrum, the OOS education and outreach coordinator, ...
Tufts admitted 530 students from the first round of its Early Decision (ED) Program into the Class of 2019 on Dec. 15 after receiving a record-breaking number of ED applications this fall.According to Director of Admissions Lee Coffin, this year's first ED round saw a six percent growth in applications ...
Dozens of Tufts students walked in the 4 Mile March through downtown Boston yesterday in continued protest of police violence and racial profiling against black Americans.The group met at the Mayer Campus Center and traveled together to the Old State House, the site of the 1770 Boston Massacre, ...
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy announced the selection of Nadim Shehadi as the new director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies last month.Shehadi previously served as the director of Lebanese studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and worked for theEuropean Unionwriting ...
Tufts students gathered at the Mayer Campus Center's lower patio on Wednesday to speak out against transphobia, conversion therapy, gay/trans panic defense and institutionalized hatred.The rally, titled "Enough is Enough: Rally for Trans Rights," was sparked by the suicide of transgender ...
This winter, Somerville's Board of Aldermen voted to crack down on residents and landlords who do not clear their sidewalks after a snowstorm.According to Somerville Alderman at Large Jack Connolly, the city has created a new ordinance that amends its original snow removal policy. Previously, ...
After 16 years serving as Tufts' Director of Athletics, William Gehling (LA '74, G '79) will officially step down from his current position on July 1 to assume the new role of senior advisor to University Advancement. According to Gehling, the search for a new director is currently underway.In ...
With the recent installation of parking meters along Boston and College Avenues, university staff and students will likely have more difficulty finding free parking on the Medford/Somerville campus.According to the City of Medford website, workers have installed parking meters and kiosks in the Medford ...
After a semester of gathering signatures and garnering support, full-time, non-tenured Tufts faculty members will vote on Jan. 28 and 29 to determine whether they will unionize.The vote, which will be held on campus, is a result of the preliminary efforts made by a group of non-tenured faculty who ...
Tufts students led a march that shut down major thoroughfares throughout Somerville and Cambridge on Friday evening as a part of the national #IndictAmerica movement.Reacting to the recent non-indictments of white police officers in the killings of black victims Michael Brown and Eric Garner, over ...
University administrators and Somerville city aldermen collaborated to revise the city's proposed University Accountability Ordinance during the Dec. 3 meeting of the Board of Aldermen's Legislative Matters Committee.The proposed ordinance, which was initially introduced during the board's ...
On Friday, Dec. 5, several full-time, non-tenured Tufts lecturers went to the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston to file for an election that would create a union for full-time lecturers after reaching the required threshold of 30 percent of full-time faculty showing interest in a union, according to a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spokesperson.
In its final meeting of the fall semester,the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held elections for an open position within the TCU Allocations Board, voted on an amendment to a bylaw on outreach and listened to updates from various chairs.Allison Aaronson, the senate's diversity and community ...
