Tufts' second annual National Dialogue on Race Day, which featured a five-person panel discussion on racial inequality and public policy in the United States, took place on Monday night in Cabot Auditorium. The event was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD).This ...
The second annual Fall Gala on Sept. 6 was a considerable success, according to Office for Campus Life (OCL) Assistant Director David McGraw. Despite the event's relocation from the Academic Quad to the Gantcher Center, McGraw said that both students and the administration were satisfied with the ...
Mohamed "Moe" Zeidan, a fourth-year medical student at the Tufts University School of Medicine, was killed in a bicycle accident on Sept. 5 in Medford, Mass. Zeidan, who was originally from Minnesota, was 29 years old."He was a remarkable young man, from everything that I've read ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held an election to fill openings on the freshman class council and the TCU Judiciary, and to select freshman members of the TCU Senate. Elections Commission Publicity Director Jamie Moore said that voter turnout was as expected for a fall election, with 51.11% ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spoke about her life, the economy and higher education at Tufts yesterday for the Alan D. Solomont Lecture on Citizenship and Public Service.Structured as a question-and-answer session between Warren, students and Solomont (A ’70), the Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean ...
TUESDAYIsrael's Security ChallengeDetails: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's International Security Studies program presents Major General Yaakov Amidror as a speaker as part of its Luncheon Lecture Series. He will lead an "off the record" lecture with Fletcher faculty, staff ...
Tufts student groups and campus leaders are preparing for the U.S. general elections on Nov. 4 after states' primary elections by working to register voters and generate interest in political participation.Vote Everywhere Ambassadors for the Andrew Goodman Foundation have organized voter registration ...
Erik Halvorsen started in his new role as senior director of technology transfer and industry collaboration in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research on Aug. 4. Halvorsen comes to Tufts after serving as the executive director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Technology and Innovation Development ...
Booking ItOn Sept. 4 at 7:12 p.m. a person was spotted on the roof of Cousens Gym and was reported to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD). Officers located the person, who was a Tufts student, and removed him from the roof. The student claimed to have been reading on the roof and had a book with ...
Tufts has over the past several months implemented a number of changes to its sexual assault policy, hired two campus sexual assault specialists and increased mandatory student and faculty training since the Department of Education's (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found it in violation of Title IX on April 28.
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science Donna Slonim and Robinson Professor of Chemistry David Walt collaborated to teach a class this summer on bioinformatics, the intersection of genomic sequencing and computer science, to 18 high school juniors and seniors from across the country who are interested in biology.
As she dropped her son off at the Berklee College of Music for the Five-Week Summer Performance Program, Dr. Kathleen Camara was amazed at the sight in front of the Berklee Performance Center.
A group of 12 runners from Tufts, a number of whom are members of the Tufts Marathon Team, traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland to participate in the 2014 Islandsbanski Reykjavik Marathon through sponsorship by the Office of Alumni Relations' Tufts Travel-Learn Program from Aug. 20 to Aug. 24.
Tufts Dining Services will implement a number of updates to its dining operations at Tufts this year in response to feedback from faculty, staff and students. The updates include a renovation of the Commons Deli and Grill, which will be reopened as the Commons Marketplace later this fall.
Tufts installed a new solar panel system on the roof of Dowling Hall at the end of last April as part of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center's Solarize Massachusetts (Solarize Mass) Medford program, which aims to broaden the usage of small-scale solar electricity systems in cities across Massachusetts.
Tufts University Chaplaincy announced the establishment of a new part-time Humanist in Residence position this July as a resource for Tufts students who identify as nonreligious. Walker Bristol (A '14) will be the first to take on the role beginning this year.
A new bronze statue of Tufts University's elephant mascot, Jumbo, will replace the existing sculpture on the Academic Quad this fall, with the official unveiling set for Oct. 19. The former statue of Jumbo, which was located outside of Barnum Hall, has already been removed in preparation for the ...
Robert Cook was named the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) last May after serving as interim dean since the previous November. Cook replaced the former dean of GSAS, Lynne Pepall, who stepped down from the position in 2013 after serving as dean for seven years.Cook started ...
As summer comes to a close, so do several construction projects on Tufts campus, including two dormitories, an athletics facility and a number of science and technology buildings. Some construction will continue into the fall and beyond, despite the completion of work on most student-used facilities. ...
Last year, the Tufts community saw a number of changes and developments on the Hill, ranging from revisions of its sexual assault policy to the replacement of Fall Ball with Fall Gala. Below are some of the biggest stories from the 2013-2014 academic year.September The university revised its drug and ...
