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 ...
Tufts University announced on Tuesday night that it will conduct all classes online starting March 25 in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus on its campuses.In an email to the Tufts community,University President Anthony Monaco explained that undergraduate and Fletcher School of Law ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed two resolutions and approved 14 supplementary funding requests, including an appeal, during its meeting on March 8 in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose room.While TCU Senate had originally planned on reviewing more supplementary funding requests, TCU Treasurer ...
Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)announced last week a proposed ballot referendumcalling on the university to stop sending campus police officers on military training trips abroad.The referendum, which the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate discussed at its March 2 meeting, is part of SJP’s ...
Disclaimer: Esra Gurcay is a former executive social media editor at the Daily. Gurcay was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.Tufts administrators responded to growing concerns over the global coronavirus outbreak by implementing travel regulations and warning of potential disruptions ...
As Italy grapples with the worst outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Europe, some Tufts students studying abroad at pre-approved non-Tufts-affiliated programs have been forced to leave their respective programs.Nadia Sbuttoni and August Moore, both juniors, were studying abroad in Italy ...
Cyntoia Brown-Long discussed her experiences and problems with the criminal justice system and her current initiatives for prison reform as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life's Distinguished Speaker Series on Thursday in Breed Memorial Hall. Alan Solomont, dean of Tisch College, ...
Medford and Somerville were awarded nearly half a million dollars in Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Action Grants on Feb. 5, as part of an approximately $1.2 million grant package awarded to the Resilient Mystic Collaborative, a group of 18 municipalities of which Medford and Somerville ...
MONDAY"Irishness, Celtic Culture and Magical Whiteness in the 21st Century"Details: Sean Williams, a professor of music at Evergreen State College who specializes in ethnomusicology, will deliver this week's Granoff Music Center Colloquium, focusing on Irish music and culture from an ethnomusicological ...
In response to recent difficulties among students in receiving their absentee ballots, the Mail Services Department initiated a new process for voting-related mail. This initiative was launched in coordination with JumboVote to ensure ballots are not mishandled.“Since the mail room became aware of ...
Noel Twagiramungu, a fellow at the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation, gave a talk on Monday titled "Transnational Conflict." The panel examined the conventional wisdom regarding African regional ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life hosted Rhonda Y. Williams,author and professor of history at Vanderbilt University, during a Civic Life Lunch on March 3 in Barnum Hall’s Rabb Room. Williams presented her most recent research and writing, in a talk titled "Black Power and Rethinking ...
The Tufts University Chaplaincy began the hiring process this semester for two new part-time community associates to serve the Africana and Hindu spiritual communities on campus.The Buddhist, Catholic, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim and Protestant communities are already represented in the Chaplaincy's ...
Davis Square bank robber pleads guiltyThe man who robbed the Middlesex Federal Savings Bank in May last year, Daniel Rosado, has pleaded guilty on all counts. Rosado, who is 32 according to Boston.com, faces 10 years to life in prison.The affidavit to his case, filed by John Oliviera of the Somerville ...
On Feb. 24 at 2:45 p.m., a staff member reported to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) that their university laptop was stolen in California. The victim also reported the incident to the local police in the district where it was stolen.On Feb. 26 at 7:20 p.m., TUPD joined the Tufts Emergency ...
Two Medford residents withdrew their appeal for an enforcement action against the Tufts’ Joyce Cummings Center last week just hours before a Wednesday session of the Medford Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) that would have resolved the matter.Laurel Ruma and Mike Korcynski,two Burget Street residents, ...
Tufts ranked 12th most generous to students with financial need in a list of private 958 colleges published at the end of January by the Chronicle of Higher Education, based on 2017–18 data of private nonprofit colleges in the United States.Ruth Hammond, who was a senior editor at the Chronicle of ...
Mindy Nierenberg, the senior director of programs at Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life since 2002, will retire from Tufts later this spring, leaving behind a legacy of student programs that have provided thousands of Tufts students with transformational learning experiences. Nierenberg’s career ...
