In an abrupt departure from the administration's previous decision, University President Anthony Monaco announced that an in-person commencement will be postponed until the danger of the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.The Tufts community initially received an email on March 26 notifying members of the ...
Elections for the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate and other student government positions will begin this month as scheduled. The student organization budgeting process, however, will now continue online, according to TCU Treasurer Sharif Hamidi.TCU Senate hopes to complete the student group budgets ...
The Tufts research community has suspended all nonessential on-campus research activities in accordance with new guidelines outlined in a March 19 email from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) as of March 20 at 5 p.m.The new measures have been taken in a concerted effort to minimize ...
Faculty in the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) on March 23 approved temporary changes to Tufts’ academic policies for most undergraduate students, effectively ending the debate raging among students about which alternative grading system would work best for Tufts' undergraduate ...
Students from countries hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, as well as several low-income international students, are frustrated that Tufts rejected their housing extension requests, sending them scrambling for plane tickets or a bed to sleep in.In his March 10 email to the Tufts community, University ...
University President Anthony Monaco announced his plan to relieve increasing strain on local hospitals by opening up Tufts’ residence halls to quarantine patients with low-level cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, in an op-ed published in The Boston Globe on Wednesday, March 18. ...
Editor's Note: This event was live-streamed on Facebook at 12 p.m. EDT. Read the Daily's complete transcription here, or watch the video on Student Life's Facebook page here. In a Facebook Live session on Monday afternoon that focused on answering students' questions regarding Tufts' ...
Editor's note: Tufts administrators participated in a remote discussion via Facebook Live on Monday to answer students' questions about how the university will operate amid the coronavirus pandemic. On March 10, Tufts canceled in-person classes and instructed students to leave campus in an attempt ...
Dozens of Tufts students have been quarantined in dorms and off-campus housing for nearly two weeks after potentially coming in contact with a student who tested positive for COVID-19, throwing travel plans into disarray and putting lives on hold.The university sent out emails to students suspected ...
Disclaimer: Jessica Blough is a former editor-in-chief at the Daily. She was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.At least five Tufts students participating in School for International Training (SIT) and Butler University’s Institute for Study Abroad (IFSA) study abroad programs ...
Exchange students studying at Tufts this semester will not be allowed to remain in the United States,effective March 20, as part of the university’s response to the global coronavirus pandemic.Students studying at Tufts through the Global Education exchange program received an email Saturday afternoon ...
Tufts Dining workers remain in limbo as they await an announcement from the university about how the campus closure will affect their employment, according to union officials.Several UNITE HERE Local 26 shop stewards, who represent the dining workers, met with university officials, including Director ...
Tufts students living on the university’s Medford/Somerville campus and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) must leave their respective residence halls by 3 p.m. on March 16, according to an email sent Wednesday by the deans of Tufts schools with on-campus residents.In their email, the ...
The Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and the Tufts Medical Center (TMC) have been preparing to tackle COVID-19 in recent weeks, according to Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, an attending physician at TMC specializing in infectious diseases and an assistant professor at TUSM.While not formally affiliated ...
The Daily published Letters from the Editors on March 11 encouraging the community to remain engaged despite the obstacles presented by the coronavirus. Read them here and here.
A Tufts student has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the first university affiliate with a presumptive positive case, according to an email sent by Executive Vice President Mike Howard to the Tufts community on Thursday evening.The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)informed the university ...
Tufts students are rallying to provide financial and in-kind assistance to students facing difficulty in the wake of the administration's decision to continue classes online beginning on March 25.In response to growing concerns about on-campus transmission of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, University ...
The university tested a student for COVID-19 on the advice of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Executive Vice President Mike Howard announced in a community-wide email yesterday afternoon.The test results were unknown at press time, but Howard reaffirmed that the university will ...
Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone said that negotiations with Tufts over a new payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement have reached an impasse despite some points of progress in the year-long talks.At a community meeting held last Thursday evening in the Tufts Administration Building, the mayor and ...
Most of the buildings on the Upper Campus were thrust into darkness yesterday morning as students and faculty began their second-to-last day of face-to-face classes of the spring semester.The power outage struck the Hill less than 24 hours after University President Anthony Monaco announced in an email ...
