With a workshop on Nov. 4, Tufts Food for Thought officially kicked off its Retire Ronald campaign to end McDonald's use of mascot Ronald McDonald as a marketing practice that targets children.Sydney Giacalone, a Food for Thought member who led the initiative on campus, explained that the campaign, ...
MONDAY"STEM Lecture Series -- Allan Collins"Details: Alan Collins, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, will present as part of the Tufts Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Lecture Series.When and Where: 3 - 4 p.m., Halligan Hall, Room 102Sponsors: ...
Roger Cohen, author and journalist for The New York Times and International Herald Tribune, gave a lecture titled "Germany: 25 Years After the Berlin Wall" on Thursday in the Crane Room. His talk focused on the current state of Germany in world affairs to commemorate the 25th anniversary ...
The fifth annual Cage Rage concert, featuring headliner MS MR and openers STRFKR and Gentlemen Hall, was held at Carzo Cage in Cousens Gymnasiumthis Saturday evening.According to Concert Board Co-Chairs Matthew Marber and Kathryn Gibb, about 1,100 tickets were sold, as opposed to 1,350 tickets sold ...
Eco-Reps from a number of Northeast universities will gather at the Aidekman Arts Center this weekend for the fifth annual Eco-Rep Symposium.The event, which will be hosted by the Tufts Eco-Reps, brings together students interested in campus sustainability to exchange ideas and talk about related ...
Taking place on the Tisch Library roof and featuring a guided historical tour of Kashmir, a postcard diorama and a candlelight vigil, the South Asian Political Action Committee's (SAPAC) first event of the semester was well-received by the campus community.The event also included live poetry recitals ...
Sir Christoper Pissarides, the winner of the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, gave a presentation yesterday afternoon on the current state of affairs in the Eurozone for the Department of Economics' 2014 Wellington Burnham Lecture. Pissarides' lecture began with an overview of the ...
Professor of Practice in the Department of Drama and Dance Jennifer Burton and the students of her Advanced Production Seminar are working to bring under-told stories of American women to light through a multimedia project called "Half the History." The goal of the production, which combines ...
Boris Muñoz, Venezuelan journalist and 2010 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, spoke yesterday about the freedom of the press in Venezuela. The event, titled "Freedom of the Press in Latin America: A Conversation with Boris Muñoz," was hosted by Tufts ...
A group of around 20 Tufts students, almost all dressed in black and wearing keffiyehs, came together to protest a lecture by Israeli Defense Forces Lieutenant Colonel Eran Shamir-Borer during his visit to campus on Monday morning for a lecture sponsored by the International Security Studies Program ...
Independent of the university-wide Sexual Misconduct Prevention Task Force, Tufts Inter-Greek Council (IGC) held its first Greek Life Anti-Sexual Assault Initiative Task Force meeting on Oct. 31, with a second meeting planned for Friday. Members from seven of the 17 Greek organizations at Tufts ...
The Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center (MC) will soon launch a full follow-up study to examine the effects of a new therapeutic treatment for bipolar disorder -- Bipolar IN Order -- after completing a pilot study last year.The Bipolar IN Order treatment begins with an eight-week online ...
Curtis Hall, located at 474 Boston Avenue, has undergone a number of changes over the past semester, including a shortening of hours for the Brown and Brew Coffee House and a series of structural renovations still in progress.
In a joint effort between Tufts and Medford High School (MHS) on Oct. 16,10 Tufts graduate research students in the Departments of Chemistry, Biology and Biomedical Engineering presented their doctoral research projects to MHS students in the first-ever Reverse Science Fair.The Tufts graduate students ...
Tufts Mock Trial (TMT)placed fourth out of 24 teams competing at the Great American Mock Trial Invitational (GAMTI), which was hosted by the University of Virginia in Washington, D.C. over the weekend of Nov. 1. The Tufts team finished with a score of 8.5 out of 12 and received the most individual ...
The Tufts Intersections Project, a new initiative sponsored by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Students, has been launched to facilitate conversations in safe spaces for students with meetings throughout ...
MONDAYQueer Bystander Intervention Workshop: Reducing Sexual Misconduct in the LGBTQ CommunityDetails: Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center Graduate Assistant Rachael Pozerski, Sexual Misconduct Prevention Specialist Alexandra Donovan and Shannon Regan from Lesley University will present ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate spent a large part of its weekly meeting on Sunday night hotly debating an appeal from the recently approved Tufts Thai Student Association for funding that the TCU Allocations Board had previously denied.The Thai Student Association, which had asked the Allocations ...
Rebecca Irwin, associate professor of biological sciences at Dartmouth College, spoke about the impacts invasive species have on native populations during a lecture yesterday for the Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn Program. During the event, which was sponsored by both the Environmental ...
National Political Columnist for Yahoo News and former Chief Political Correspondent for The New York Times Magazine Matt Bai (LA ’90) hosted a lecture for Tufts community members yesterday evening in Alumnae Lounge. The dinner discussion was centered around his latest book,“All the Truth Is Out: ...
