The university is currently in the process of deciding whether its study abroad program located in Kanazawa, Japan should continue in the wake of recent concerns about radioactive leakage from nuclear plants, according to Associate Dean of Programs Abroad Sheila Bayne.
For students hoping to explore the great outdoors as the weather warms, Tufts Mountain Club (TMC) this month launched the Outdoor Resource Center (ORC), a new initiative bringing wilderness education to campus.
The Japanese Culture Club (JCC) has in the past two weeks raised over $6,000 to support relief efforts following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, surpassing its initial fundraising goal of $5,000, and will now set its sights higher.
With a snow-free campus, clocks turned an hour forward and April just around the corner, it seems safe to say that spring weather is on its way. A change of seasons, for many students, comes with a sense of stir-craziness, a pang of wanderlust and a need to get off campus. These nearby spots are great for weekend or day trips and nature lovers of all kinds.
Spring Fling minus the alcohol, Winter Bash ticketed and shifted to an off-campus location, the Naked Quad Run (NQR) no more.
While many Jumbos headed home or toward sandy beaches this spring break, some Tufts students went on a spring break trip of a different kind.
Senior Brian Agler is the winner of this year's Wendell Phillips Memorial Scholarship, giving him the opportunity to speak at the Baccalaureate Commencement Ceremony in May, the Office for Campus Life announced yesterday.
The Tufts Community Union Senate is one of five members of the Boston Intercollegiate Leadership Council (BILC) selected this month to help draft the body's constitution, an attempt to further legitimize the organization and help it move from discussion to action.
Fourth-year medical students at Tufts School of Medicine react yesterday morning during national "Match Day," when medical students throughout the country learn where they will serve their first medical residencies. The 177 medical school seniors were sorted into teaching hospitals nationwide after starting the application process in the fall.
Continued anti?bullying efforts on the part of Somerville public schools and the Tufts community are coinciding with hearings led by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley to review the state's new anti?bullying law.
I can't wait for spring break to arrive, but I'm not exactly looking forward to what will greet me upon my return: April Open House. Though I freely admit to feeling quite nostalgic as hoards of pre−frosh swarm the Hill, it's difficult not to feel a little cynical as I wait for massive tour groups to stop blocking the entrance to my dorm. Of course, this overcrowding wouldn't have been an issue had I attended Tufts when the entire student body was smaller than my "Principles of Economics" lecture last semester.
As the university continues its search to replace Provost and Senior Vice President Jamshed Bharucha, faculty members learned yesterday that Vice Provost Peggy Newell will hold his position in the interim beginning July 1.
For time−strapped undergraduates, efficient and useful resources are never unwelcome. Although universities strive to provide such services, the Internet is often a more looked−to source for assets aimed specifically at college students.
In a further attempt to make Tufts' system of passwords more user-friendly, University Information Technology (UIT) has implemented TuftsTools, a web application that allows members of the Tufts community to change and update their Active Directory (AD) password and e-mail account information online.
Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and president emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will in May deliver the 2011 commencement address to this year's graduating senior class.
Sophomore Josephine Herman scanned the library and stealthily uncovered a recycled bag of six crumbled magic cookie bars. The four girls sitting at her table all reached for the broken pieces. Herman does not normally eat desserts — but magic cookie bars are an exception. Though her love for the chewy sweet has only prompted dining hall theft on that single occasion, the bars are Herman's Achilles' heel.
Professors from multiple academic departments last night teamed up to hold a dialogue on the rapidly unfolding Arab uprising in the Middle East and North Africa, addressing the causes and possible outcomes of the unprecedented revolutions in the region.
Professor Fiorenzo Omenetto of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) joined some of the world's foremost leaders and thinkers at the TED2011 conference, presenting his research developing new applications for silk technology.
Dozens of students last night engaged in a partially nude run around the Res Quad in a peaceful, sober protest against University President Lawrence Bacow's decision to end the annual Naked Quad Run (NQR), typically held in mid-December to celebrate the end of classes.
