Members of the Tufts community participated in a panel discussion last night hosted by the Peace and Justice Studies program focusing on nonviolent campaigns through the changing lens of media. The discussion was held in light of recent events such as the Occupy Boston Movement and the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline controversy.
India native and Simmons College Professor of Sociology JyotiPuri last night discussed the social justice implications of the recent decriminalization of sodomy in Delhi, India.
A random sample of 4,000 Tufts students received an email this week as part of the Healthy Minds Study (HMS), an annual survey that examines mental health issues among college students across the nation.
Tufts' School of Dental Medicine this month received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification for the Level 2 Renovation project on its building in Boston's Chinatown.
The Environmental Studies Program is proposing revisions to its curriculum that would allow majors to gain background in an interdisciplinary core of courses while focusing more on their chosen track.
NBC News anchor Brian Williams will address the Tufts community at the seventh annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism, Julie Dobrow, director of the Communications and Media Studies (CMS) Program at Tufts, told the Daily.
Approximately 22 percent of the Tufts undergraduate student body responded to the fall 2011 Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate survey, which the Senate will use to understand how to best improve student outreach and knowledge about initiatives on campus, according to TCU President Tomas Garcia, a senior.
The Experimental College (Ex College)−sponsored "A Taste of Tufts: A Sampling of Faculty Research" lecture series continued last Friday, with Associate Professor of Music David Locke at bat. At the lecture, Locke presented his multimedia research on the drumming of the Dagomba, an ethnic group in Ghana.
The Race and Ethnicity Working Group has been meeting regularly this semester to discuss the creation of a new interdisciplinary program on the study of race, ethnicity, diversity, disparity and identity.
Following up on President Barack Obama's call in his State of the Union address for improvement in American higher education, the White House last week unveiled a draft "College Scorecard" to provide potential college students with vital statistics about prospective colleges.
Jumbos will proudly admit their devotion to bringing about social change through active citizenship. Members of the Tufts Generation Citizen chapter, however, are not only working with this devotion in mind but are also motivating low−income students throughout the greater Boston area to do the same.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at their meeting last night passed a resolution and allocated money to student groups.
Tufts' chapter of BrandHaiti, a student−led nonprofit organization seeking to transform the negative cultural images and perceptions of Haiti, on Saturday hosted its second annual Business Symposium, "Investing in Haiti: Challenges, Strategies, Opportunities." The event featured several prominent entrepreneurs and panels discussing entrepreneurship, investment and economic development in Haiti.
Jill Zellmer in November became the new director of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO), filling a position that was left vacant for seven months prior.
The winners of Rooftop Comedy's Tufts University Talent Search (Max Cohen, Ian Donovan, Haydn Forrest, Bradley Frizzell, Clay Grable, Matthew Nazarian, Aliza Small and Sam Zuckert) will go on to compete against Emerson College at Improv Boston on Tuesday, March 27 in the TBS National College Comedy Competition.
During the spring of my freshman year, May 2010, there was a huge water main leak in Weston, Mass. A pipe with a diameter of 10 feet was leaking eight million gallons of water an hour into the Charles River. The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority declared a Boil Water Notice, and for three days, the campus turned into a refugee camp. Those days, you showered fewer times, brushed your teeth with care, and lived in fear of what you were digesting. In Dewick, we ate cold cuts on paper plates, while drinking small plastic cups of boiled water from a cooler.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) officials yesterday issued a measles alert for anyone in attendance at last week's Super Bowl Village festivities in downtown Indianapolis, Ind.
