Robots of The Jeffersons-style fiction are built to cook and clean, but the Tufts Robotics club is building a club around more creative concept.
Sketch comedy group Major: Undecided last Friday won first place for the third consecutive year at the annual Boston Funderdome competition hosted by Boston University.
Every university has its own unique set of decades?long traditions. Here, traditions include the painting of the cannon, kissing under Bowen Gate, Tuftonia's Day observations, the candle lighting (or illumination) ceremony, 'pumpkining' and the annual Fall Ball, Winter Bash and Spring Fling events. The university rituals Tufts observes today are different from those that existed 100, 50 or even 10 years ago, as the loss of NQR and other traditions has demonstrated.
A resolution recommending that American Sign Language (ASL) count towards the first part of the School of Arts and Sciences foreign language requirement passed in the The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate last week, reviving a perennial push for a revision to the requirement.The resolution will now ...
I'm sitting here in the Rez feeling confused about what to write about, swamped in midterms and sad that Mitt Romney no longer gives me endless conservative fodder about which to squawk. All of a sudden, hark! I find my story. A Daily editorial published on March 4 titled "Spring Fling headliner choice uninspired" which stated that the Tufts University Concert Board should have "heeded - or preempted - the calls for a female headliner for this year's Spring Fling." Concert Board shot back on their Facebook - doesn't this have all the workings of a Tufts telenovela? - that, "a choice to choose a woman for Spring Fling for the sake of choosing a woman undermines goals for gender equality." A comment war ensued. The plot thickens.
A three-year study led by child development professor and Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science Richard Lerner will examine how participation in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) impacts scouts' development.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at its meeting on Feb. 24 unanimously approved a project to push for the addition of clauses to the universitys alcohol policy eliminating university judicial consequences for students who receive treatment from Tufts Emergency Medical Services (TEMS) for intoxication and for those who call TEMS.
What if you could live to be 200 years old? What if you could increase your IQ by 300 points? What if you could live with a new colony of humans in space? To the members of the Futurism Society at Tufts, these prospects arent just flights of fancy theyre the starting points of lively weekly discussions.
Members of the Tufts community gathered on the Mayer Campus Centers lower patio yesterday to support divestment of the universitys endowment from fossil fuel companies with a rally organized by Tufts Divest for Our Future.
The School of Engineering on Friday hosted Engineering Week (E-Week) Day, an abridged version of the annual Engineering Week, which featured a series of events to promote Tufts engineering programs and celebrate the work of Tufts engineers.
Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist Nelly will be this years Spring Fling headliner, Concert Board co-chairs Mark Bernardo and Julia Stein announced on Friday in Cohen Auditorium at Theta Chis Tufts Best Dance Crew fundraiser.
