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A Taste of Tufts: Chris Rogers

The Experimental College's weekly lecture series "A Taste of Tufts: A Sampling of Faculty Research" returned last week with Professor of Mechanical Engineering Chris Rogers.

Butler explores Middle East conflict

Boston Ave. Boloco still faces closure

Tufts student crowned Jeopardy! champion

Pro II to be removed from students' records after term of probation

Educational Policy Committee tackles overarching academic issues on the Hill

Judiciary rules Friends of Israel ad not in violation of Senate bylaw

Photographers speak to aspiring photographers, filmakers

David Harris selected as university provost

Nasr leaving Tufts to become SAIS dean at Johns Hopkins

Tufts explores nutrition minor program with two study options

Spurred by a recent increase in student demand for an undergraduate academic program in nutrition, a group of Tufts faculty has begun to explore the prospect of an interdisciplinary nutrition minor within the School of Arts and Sciences.Current Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy ...

TCU Senate Update

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at its meeting Sunday night approved a request from WMFO Tufts Free Form Radio to receive $13,106.68 from the Senate's buffer funds to furnish Studio C in their studio. The Senate Allocations Board had originally granted WMFO $0 for the project, partially so that Senate as a whole could hear the request, according to TCU Treasurer Christie Maciejewski, a sophomore. WMFO appealed the decision, and the Senate as a whole voted to fund the full project.

Zadie Smith discusses work, writing process

British novelist Zadie Smith yesterday evening spoke to members of the Tufts community about her newest novel and her writing process at an event co?sponsored by the Toupin?Bolwell Fund and the Diversity Fund.

Senate addresses handicap accessibility

The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate this month approved a project to address handicap accessibility on campus by improving the program currently in place for Tufts community members with disabilities.

The Thirst Project comes to Tufts

Chances are that turning on a tap and being able to drink the water that comes out without a second thought is nothing to most Tufts students. It may be hard to imagine that almost 1 billion people on earth live without clean drinking water, resulting in over 2.2 million deaths from water?borne illnesses each year.

UIT installs Trunk mobile interface

University Information Technology (UIT) this semester installed a new, mobile?friendly interface for Trunk as one of many explorations being done on Sakai, the open?source learning management system (LMS) that powers Trunk.

Ben Schwalb | Das Coding

Linguistics has a theory of something called the Proto?Indo?European language. The commonly accepted abbreviation for this is PIE, as in what I had for dinner. PIE is the common ancestor of all the languages spoken in Europe and a significant number of those spoken in Asia (from Pashto to Hindi). However, the structure and even existence of PIE is simply a bunch of educated guesses by linguists. Whether, where and how PIE was spoken can never be known for sure. These details were lost to history.

Icelandic president discusses diplomacy

He was joined by Swedish diplomat PontusMelander, Russian economist Alexander Pilyasov and Lieutenant Governor of Alaska Mead Treadwell in the final event of a two−daydialogue between government, business and media leaders from the eight Arctic Council countries.

As The Primary Source turns 30, editors take stock of its place on the Hill

Tufts may or may not actually have the predominantly liberal student body its stereotypes often note, but right?of?center views are hardly invisible on campus and have been prominent for some time - at least on paper. This year, after decades of ebbs and flows in controversy and popularity, The Primary Source, Tufts' self?proclaimed "journal of conservative thought," turns 30.