Katie Hnida, the first woman to ever play and score points in Division I-A college football, visited Tufts last night to discuss her experience with sexual harassment and rape in college athletics. Hnida, who was hosted by the Tufts Athletics Department’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), ...
Ten Tufts students were able to spend the night at the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford on Friday through participation the Slave Dwelling Project.The project, which is led by Joseph McGill, aims to raise awareness about preservation of former slave dwellings and hosts overnight stays throughout multiple ...
Tufts Facilities Services Department has brought two new electric lawnmowers to campus this semester in an effort to move toward sustainable and low-impact technology.The decision to purchase the electric lawnmowers, which was made by Facilities Services Grounds Supervisor John Vik in conjunction ...
With students living off-campus concerned about their housing situations, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate spent a part of their weekly meeting receiving updates on the University Accountability ordinance being considered in the city of Somerville.Senator Samuel Berzok spoke about the outcomes ...
When and Where: 12 - 1:15 p.m., Tisch Library, Room 304
Debbie Mitchell-Dozier, a nurse in Tufts Medical Center's (MC) Division of Nephrology, was recognized by Nurse.com as one of six national winners of the 2014 Giving Excellence Meaning (GEM) Award for the Home, Community and Ambulatory Care category on Sept. 11.Tufts MC Chief Nursing Officer Terry ...
The TuftsClinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is wrapping up the preliminary stage of its application process for its sixth annual Pilot Studies Program, with the deadline for Letters of Intent today. The program, founded in 2009, selects qualified applicants to receive one year ...
On Sept. 23, the Arts and Sciences Strategic Planning and Implementation Committee released a draft of the working document for a strategic plan, which details the School of Arts and Sciences' response to the university’s T10 Strategic Plan. The committee then offered five discussion sessions ...
Michael Quinn, professor of economics and associate director of Ph.D programs at Bentley University, led a discussion last night on the economic conditions and current political situation of the European Union (EU). The lecture, titled "EU After the Great Recession," was hosted by the Fletcher ...
Members of Tufts Delta Tau Delta (DTD) fraternity will participate in the annual Light the Night walk for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) this evening on the Boston Common alongside other Tufts students.DTD Philanthropy Co-Chair Mark Meiselbach explained that the goal of the walk ...
Ten Tufts students will have the opportunity to spend the night at the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford as participants in the Slave Dwelling Project tomorrow.The students, led by Joseph McGill, who founded the project, will spend Friday night sleeping in the slave quarters where they ...
Miriam Nelson, director of the John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention and professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, was recently named the new associate dean of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public ...
Team IMPACT (Inspire, Motivate, and Play Against Challenges Together), a nonprofit organization that invites students with life-threatening illnesses to play with college athletics teams, received the 2014 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Tufts Athletic Department at their awards night on Sept. 26.
David Dapice, associate professor of economics and chief economist at the Harvard Kennedy School's Myanmar Program, presented a lecture on economic development in Myanmar last night at 6:00 p.m. in Goddard Hall. The lecture, titled "Against the Odds: Economic Development in Myanmar," ...
The Four Planning Schools (4P) and Massachusetts American Planning Association (MassAPA) Annual Conferencewill take place today at 4:30 p.m. in Cabot ASEAN Auditorium. This year's conference, titled “Securing Affordable Housing in Hot Market Areas,” will feature the research of Rachel Bratt, ...
Kathleen DeBoer, deputy head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Washington Center, hosted a discussion on economic relations between the OECD and China last night at 8 p.m. in Cabot Intercultural Center. The lecture, titled "Economic Cooperation Between the ...
Igor Sokolov, the Bernard M. Gordon senior faculty fellow and a professor of mechanical engineering, received a $408,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award in August to be used for research on the mechanics of biological cells at the nanoscale.Sokolov explained that with the grant, the team ...
Tufts Technology Services (TTS) announced the acquisition of a new license for MathWorks’ MATLAB software package on Sept. 11. The MATLAB software supports high-level numerical computation, visualization and application development to analyze data, develop algorithms or create models and applications, ...
Check Scam On Sept. 25 a student reported to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) at 11:30 p.m. that he had been attempting to sell a pool table on Craigslist for $300. He had been in contact with two people who wanted to buy the table, and he eventually decided to sell it to one of them. However, ...
Researchers at the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and the School of Dental Medicine released the results of a study that surveyed caregivers of adults with developmental disabilities (DD), following up on a 2012 study that determined that adults with DD suffer from oral health problems ...
