The 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.
Senior 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.
If adopted, Massachusetts voters will have the option of ranking candidates in order of preference instead of casting a single vote for one candidate.
The 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.
Though the fairs have had to satisfy new standards surrounding a virtual platform, the Center has continued to see high rates of attendance.
The 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.
Over 2,000 family members streamed the live event, where various administration and faculty members shared remarks.
Divided 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.
After 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.
In 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.
Amy Comey Barrett was questioned by Senate Judiciary Committee, early voting has caused problems, and Johnson & Johnson paused an important COVID-19 vaccine trial.
After 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.
The 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.
Tufts 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.
The $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.
Testing 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.
Jordan 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).
As 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.
The effort will determine whether the nasal swab sampling widely used for COVID-19 surveillance testing can be studied in batches.
ECOM is concerned that students' lack of interest to run for an open position in the Oct. 1 election will correlate with a low-interest level in the bylaw-required election on Oct. 16.
