Daniel Santamaria officially assumed the position of director of Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) on Sept. 2, filling the position previously held by Anne Sauer (LA ’91, G ’98) before she left Tufts for a new position at Cornell University in early April. University Records Manager Eliot ...
Mickey Toogood assumed the position of judicial affairs administrator on Aug. 18, replacing former judicial affairs officer Veronica Carter, who announced in July that she was retiring from Tufts after 30 years of service. Toogood shared the position with Carter during a two-week transition period ...
Loren Sri-Jayantha, a student at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, advanced to the final round of the inaugural Veterinary Innovation Challenge in Philadelphia on Sept. 6 for his mobile application, PetSync.
Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) sorority and Sigma Nu (SigNu) fraternity held a joint ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of their new shared house on 90-94 Curtis Street Sept. 12.
Tufts celebrated this year's Constitution Day on Friday afternoon with a lecture by Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts Carol Rose, who spoke about the lasting significance of the Constitution in American society. The talk, titled "Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: A Constitutional Update," took place in the Crane Room and was co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the School of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the President.
Students, faculty, alumni and staff came together yesterday for a 106-mile bike ride through Tufts' three campuses as part of the third annual Tufts Century Ride, which was led by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris.
Six years after she was expelled, Wagatwe Wanjuki, who identifies as a survivor of campus sexual assault, could receive an honorary Tufts degree at the 2015 commencement ceremony in May. Wanjuki, a former student of Tufts Class of 2009, was nominated for the degree by senior John Kelly.When the ...
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.
