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.
International Orientation (IO), one of the five pre-orientation programs Tufts offers for incoming first years, recently changed its name to Global Orientation (GO) as part of a strategy to encourage wider participation in the program.Lauren Kulwicki, the International Center Intern and a graduate ...
A meeting of queer student groups was held on Jan. 25 in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center to brainstorm ways to better serve the queer community at Tufts University, LGBT Center Director Nino Testa said.The discussion focused on three themes, according to sophomore Emily Lansky, ...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will deliver the Class of 2015's Commencement address on May 17. Albright, who served as the first female U.S. Secretary of State under former U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1997 - 2001, will also be awarded with an honorary doctorate of laws ...
Students participating in Tufts’ STEM Ambassadors will begin visiting high school classrooms next Friday to encourage students to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields and study math and science in college.STEM Ambassadors is a joint program between the Center for STEM ...
Programming Board organized Winter Week, a series of winter-themed and seasonal events during the first week of February, for the Tufts student body. The week officially started on Friday, Jan. 30 with the unveiling of a banner to celebrate the 30th birthday of the Mayer Campus Center, and will ...
Tufts Idea Exchange (TEX), a completely student-run organization established at Tufts by a group of synaptic scholars from the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), is transitioning to become a TEDx organization at Tufts this year, according to Stephanie Cleland, a TEDx organizer at Tufts.Cleland, ...
The Tufts Community Union Judiciary's (TCU-J)Judicial Advocacy Program has been newly renovated in order to connect students facing disciplinary action with trained advocates to navigate Tufts' judicial process and offer confidential and objective advice.The program, which was revived last ...
Joi Ito, entrepreneur and director of the MIT Media Lab, presented a lecture to the Tufts community titled "How the Internet Has Changed the World: Civic Engagement, Innovation, Learning and Technology Today (and How We Got Here)" as part of the Hitachi Center for Technology and International ...
Tufts Dining Services opened the newly-renovated Commons Marketplace on Jan. 14, the first day of the spring semester, according to Director of Dining and Business Services Patti Klos.“People like the design, colors and layout,” Klos said. She added, however, that since the space could not be made ...
Seeking to engage alumni and students with similar interests, the Career Center implemented the Professional-in-Residence (PIR) program last fall. The program brings alumni from different fields onto campus to talk to students about their career paths.“We added the [PIR] program to provide students ...
The Tufts chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) has voted to disaffiliate from its national organization due to a difference of opinion, the brothers wrote in a statement.“Our long-term goals do not align with those of our national organization,” the brothers wrote in an open letter emailed to the ...
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) is seeking accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), according to SMFADean and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Sarah McKinnon.The SMFA began to approach the process of becoming independently accredited in 2010, ...
The Rohr Chabad House at Tufts set a record for the number of people in attendance at its Friday night Shabbat dinner last week, with over 120 attendees.Chabad Co-president Scott Halperin explained that the high turnout was a result of “easy advertising,” noting the event's enticing sushi ...
The Tufts endowment has grown from $1.47 billion at the end of fiscal year (FY) 2013 to $1.6 billion at the end of FY 2014, according to the university's Annual Financial Report. This increase seems to be part of a larger trend.
The City of Somerville is being rezoned for the first time in 24 years, according to George Proakis, the city's director of planning. Proakis will be leading the rezoning project, which was submitted to the city's Board of Aldermen for approval on Jan. 20.Proakis explained that there is ...
