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 ...
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 ...
