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By Jillian Rolnick | October 26Catch up on headlines from around the globe.
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TCU Senate assigns committee placements, discusses online transition of Senate activities
By Flora Meng | October 23TCU Senate consists of five committees that specialize in initiatives to enhance student life: Administration & Policy, Community & Diversity, Education, Outreach and Services.
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Coalition calls on Middlesex sheriff to protect votes of incarcerated people ahead of election
By Ella Kamm | October 23The Election Protection Behind Bars Coalition wrote a letter to Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian on Oct. 9, asking him to take further steps to protect the right of eligible incarcerated voters to cast their ballots in the upcoming election, and to provide guidelines for sheriffs statewide.
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University officials hold forum on campus policing, safety
By Alejandra Carrillo | October 22Senior university officials held a virtual forum yesterday to discuss the work of the campus safety and policing workstream, one of five workstreams created in July to address the dynamics of policing on campus.
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Center for State Policy Analysis releases report on ranked-choice voting ahead of Mass. ballot question
By Coco Arcand | October 22If adopted, Massachusetts voters will have the option of ranking candidates in order of preference instead of casting a single vote for one candidate.
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Somerville sees rise in COVID-19 cases, enters red category
By Alicia Zou | October 21The City of Somerville recently entered the "higher risk" zone for COVID-19 cases, with an average of 8.2 new cases per 100,000 people, according to Massachusetts' COVID-19 Community-Level Data Map. Medford remains in the "moderate risk" category, with an average of 6.7 new cases per 100,000 people, based on the same data.
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Career Center adapts career fairs to online format, maintains student engagement
By Ria Agarwal | October 21Though the fairs have had to satisfy new standards surrounding a virtual platform, the Center has continued to see high rates of attendance.
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TCU Senate appoints new members to Allocations Board, discusses Tufts SJP's resolution
By Alexander Janoff | October 20The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate elected two additional members to the TCU Senate Allocations Board (ALBO) and discussed an effort by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to present a resolution to End the Deadly Exchange at Tufts as a referendum to the entire student body.
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Parents Weekend adopts virtual format with live webinar
By Arielle Galinsky | October 20Over 2,000 family members streamed the live event, where various administration and faculty members shared remarks.
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Intersection of politics, religion in Ukraine discussed at Fletcher School conference
By Marianna Schantz and Yiyun Tom Guan | October 20Divided into a keynote address and three panel discussions, the conference focused on the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, and issues regarding geopolitics, pluralism and security in the country.
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Faculty Senate condemns administration's handling of dental school furloughs, lack of transparency
By Matthew McGovern | October 19After the Faculty Senate issued a resolution on Sept. 30 condemning Tufts’ lack of communication and transparency in its decision to lay off employees and reduce salaries at the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM), university officials responded in an Oct. 13 statement that the decision was not within the scope of the Faculty Senate.
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Fletcher School hosts annual conference discussing role of feminism in foreign policy
By Chloe Courtney Bohl | October 19In this second installment of the conference’s fall webinar series, panelists Jamille Bigio, Dr. Toni Haastrup, and Judicaelle Irakoze discussed how feminist foreign policy is constructed and implemented.
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Headlines off the Hill
By Jillian Rolnick | October 19Amy Comey Barrett was questioned by Senate Judiciary Committee, early voting has caused problems, and Johnson & Johnson paused an important COVID-19 vaccine trial.
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Wave of student, faculty concerns prompts Department of Computer Science to address course workload
By Anton Shenk | October 16After some students reported an excess of 30 hours a week of coursework in intro-level computer science courses — and the faculty concern that followed — the Tufts computer science department impaneled a task force to review the department’s curriculum, according to computer science Department Chair and Professor Kathleen Fisher.
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CIRCLE researchers discuss youth poll, civic engagement
By Peri Barest | October 16The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) revealed in a June poll that youth engagement is higher in the 2020 election cycle, than in 2016 and 2018. Researchers from CIRCLE discussed the large impact of the poll in the days leading up to the November election.
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Tufts to lead 5-year research program on zoonotic disease spillover
By Sarah Sandlow | October 15Tufts will lead a $100 million project called Strategies to Prevent Spillover (STOP Spillover). The five-year program was launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development and aims to address the impact of zoonotic diseases, which are transmitted from animals to humans.
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Jean Mayer Prize awarded to HEAL Food Alliance, James Beard Foundation, World Central Kitchen
By Zoe Kava | October 15The $100,000 prize, given by the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, will be split evenly among the three recipients.
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Tufts to test Medford, Somerville neighbors for COVID-19 free of cost
By Alexander Thompson | October 14Testing began yesterday and will be available to neighbors living in areas roughly bounded by George, Main and Harvard streets in Medford and Powder House Boulevard and North Street in Somerville.
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Michael Jordan contributes as university infection control health director, leads Tufts' response to pandemic
By Marianna Schantz | October 14Jordan is an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at the medical center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM).
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Tufts suspends almost all study abroad programs for spring 2021
By Madeleine Aitken | October 13As a result of ongoing developments surrounding air travel and entry restrictions, it is not safe to send students abroad, according to Mala Ghosh, senior director of Study Abroad and Global Education.
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