The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has extended closures of three Somerville bridgesimpacted by the construction of the Green Line Extension (GLX) including the Broadway Bridge in Ball Square, an area popular with Tufts students.The Broadway Bridge will now reopen in mid-July of this year, ...
On Jan. 14 at 1 p.m., TUPD and the Medford Fire Department (MFD)responded to a fire at the Danish Pastry House located at 330 Boston Ave. The fire started in the bakery section of the establishment, the suspected cause being a ventilation issue. The investigation is currently ongoing.On the same day, ...
The Somerville City Council approved an overhaul of the city’s zoning code which seeks to promote affordable housing, reduce congestion and improve sustainability standards.The City Council approved the 552-page Somerville Zoning Ordinance (SZO), as the new code is formally known, at its Dec. 12, ...
This year, Tufts Office of Undergraduate Admissions received a record number of applications for the School of Arts and Sciences — close to 23,100 — a 1.5% increase from last year’s record-setting pool of 22,725.Tufts Admissions received more than 2,550 applications for both rounds of Early Decision ...
The Tufts University Chaplaincy hired Nora Bond (AG'16) as program manager in December 2019, the second person to hold the role since its creation.Bond, an alumna of Mount Holyoke College, graduated from Tufts in 2016 with a Master's in Child Study and Human Development. Bond explained that ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate convened to discuss how Tufts’ endowment operates and hear updates from its Executive Board on the evening of Jan. 26 in the Sophia Gordon multipurpose room. Sunday night’s TCU Senate meeting marks the second consecutive week that the deliberative body has ...
The City of Somerville hosted a public meeting on Wednesday night to address community concerns involving the deployment of Somerville police officers to the Boston Straight Pride Parade on Aug. 31, 2019. An internal investigation published on Nov. 14, 2019, found no violations of department protocol ...
Tufts held the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium, this year titled "On the Right Side of the World Revolution," on Wednesday evening in Breed Memorial Hall. The symposium's panelists discussed their respective works and answered questions from the audience focusing on this year's ...
The TuftsDirecting through Recreation, Education, Adventure, and Mentoring (DREAM) program is adding an additional chapter at the Somerville Housing Authority's apartments at Clarendon Hill, which will begin meeting this semester.Tufts DREAM Chapter Chair Zoe Leaf explained that DREAM is a mentoring ...
Tufts University decided last week to convene an investment advisory committee, which will review Tufts’ investments in the fossil fuel industry and advise the Board of Trustees’ Investment Committee on its findings.The decision to activate the Responsible Investment Advisory Group (RIAG), which ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) invited students to apply to create their own themed house in Community Housing (CoHo) centered around a common interest or passion for fall 2020, but received only one application, according to Su McGlone, the director of fraternity and sorority affairs. McGlone, ...
The Tufts Environmental Studies Program held its first Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture of the semester on Jan. 16, featuring Tim Wise and the findings of his new book titled “Eating Tomorrow: The Battle for the Future of Food in the Climate Crisis” (2019). Hosted in Curtis Hall, the event ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate heard updates from its executive board, discussed filling the vacancies left by senators spending the semester abroad as well as basic budgeting and parliamentary procedures in their first meeting of the semester on Sunday.TCU Senate heard no resolutions or supplementary ...
Tufts University decided this week to convene an investment advisory committee which will review Tufts’ investments in the fossil fuel industry and advise the Board of Trustees' Investment Committee on its findings.The decision to activate the Responsible Investment Advisory Group (RIAG), which ...
The Medford Fire Department (MFD) responded to a fire at the Danish Pastry House (DPH) Tuesday afternoon. According to DPH's owner, Ulla Winkler, a ventilation hood served as the source for the fire. MFD confirmed this in an interview with the Daily, adding that the fire started in the bakery section ...
The Green Line Extension station on College Avenue will be named “Medford/Tufts,” which Tufts announced on Jan. 2 it had paid for at the cost of $200,000 a year for 10 years.Rocco DiRico, director of government and community relations at Tufts, explained the process which led to the inclusion ...
The Tufts Center for Transdisciplinary Research in Principles Of Data Science (T-TRIPODS) will celebrate its launch on January 31, following the National Science Foundation's (NSF) $1.5 million grant awarded to Tufts in October 2019 to establish the center.Funding for T-TRIPODS comes in three ...
Members of the Tufts community responded positively to Tufts’ decision last week to remove the Sackler name from its graduate biomedical sciences school, its medical education building and associated programs, in response to months of discussions by the Board of Trustees which occurred alongside formerU.S. ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate called on Tufts to divest from companies affiliated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and articulated support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and students with undocumented status in two resolutions. TCU also filled vacant ...
Student activists gathered outside Sophia Gordon Hall to attend a second global climate strike on Friday. The Tufts contingent, organized by Sunrise Movement Tufts in conjunction with Tufts Climate Action (TCA) called on world leaders to work to end climate change. This event follows the strike that ...
