John Hansen Mitchell, a local author and editor of the magazine Sanctuary, spoke yesterday afternoon about the importance of geographical history in encouraging environmental action.
The Somerville community held a meeting on Monday to discuss a proposal from Boston Beer Works, a restaurant and brewery, to occupy a vacant space at 240 Elm St. in Davis Square.
Seniors faced obstacles while attempting to buy Senior Pub Night tickets online this past Monday due to over-purchasing and communication errors between Integrated Student Information System (iSIS) and Tufts Tickets.
The university, already host to offbeat clubs such the Tufflepuffs Quidditch team and Tufts Free Compliments, is now home to a new musical group: the Tufts Whistling Collective.
Bon'App, a free application and online nutrition management tool that launched last May, has reached 160,000 regular users and is beginning to focus its efforts on expansion to college campuses like Tufts.
Two armed robberies have been reported near the Medford/Somerville campus during the past two weeks - one at Blakeley Hall on campus and another at the corner of Chester Avenue and Brookings Street in Medford.
Four candidates for the Massachusetts' fifth congressional district special election assembled in the Sophia Gordon Hall Multipurpose Room last night to meet the Tufts community and discuss their election platforms in an event sponsored by Tufts Democrats.
The Department of Alcohol and Health Education this semester launched a campus-wide poster campaign aimed at educating students about the effects of the drug molly.
Tufts Dining Services will this week celebrate the universitys annual Harvest Food Week, serving locally grown dishes and holding interactive events to educate students about the value of buying local.
Joining the 15 other special interest housing options this year, the sustainability suite in Latin Way houses 10 students looking to catalyze sustainable change on campus and create a welcoming space for the environmentally conscious to gather, discuss and live.
Seventy-seven women accepted bids to the new Tufts chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) sorority this past Tuesday.
Hodgdon Hall is listed as the global headquarters of one of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Most Innovative Social Enterprises for the Next Century. Sophomore SharadVivekSagar came to Tufts last year to study international relations and economics, with the added intention of expanding his company, Dexterity Global, Inc., as a Boston corporation.
After a backlog of unprocessed mail, Tufts University Mail Services completed scanning the 14,154 packages they had received in the last month.
Tufts Venture Fund (TVF) and the Tufts Entrepreneurs Society (TES) hosted Spark Capital Partner BijanSabet, an early investor in Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr, for a discussion about entrepreneurship last Friday afternoon.
The Stop & Shop shuttle, which offers transportation from campus to the market's Fellsway Plaza location, is back for a second year after the supermarket chain determined there was enough student interest.
Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is getting comfortable in Congress after winning the special election on June 25 to fill now Secretary of State John Kerry's vacated seat. Markey gave his first speech on the floor of the Senate this Wednesday, making promises to improve legislation on clean energy, Internet privacy and gun control, according to an article published in the Boston Herald on Wednesday.
Workers contracted by the university abated asbestos in Houston Hall this summer during a routine renovation project.
Members of Tufts Divest For Our Future attended a rally and spoke at the Massachusetts State House on Sept. 10 in support of legislation that would require Massachusetts divestment from fossil fuel companies within five years.
The dual-degree program between Tufts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) may soon undergo changes to address various difficulties and a high dropout rate.
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and his colleagues received the annual Constitutional Commentary Award during a live webcast in Ballou Hall's Coolidge Room yesterday as part of a presentation from non-profit think tank The Constitution Project (TCP).
