Activist and founder of the #MeToo movementTarana Burke spoke to a packed Cohen Auditorium Thursday night as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life Distinguished Speaker Series. In a discussion moderated by Nandi Bynoe, associate dean of diversity and inclusion, Burke spoke about her history ...
Leadership from the Experimental College (ExCollege) organized a showcase of next semester’s classes in an event called “The ExCollege Experience” Thursday. Students who will be teaching courses in the spring were able to present and pitch their classes to people who may take them.Howard Woolf, ...
Lawmakers in the Massachusetts State Houseunanimously approved the bill H. 4099, "An Act to Support Improved Financial Stability in Higher Education" on Oct. 2. The bill would require institutions of higher education to disclose financial reports to the public in an accessible manner, undergo ...
The Tufts School of Engineering plans to offer a new master’s program in software systems development, starting in fall 2020, according to Alva Couch, associate professor of computer science. This new program, focusing on systems development, fills a niche for students who want an industry-preparation ...
On Oct. 26 at 1:58 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers responded to a call from Hill Hall in which a student reported that they had returned to their room to find their rug displaced and their window open, though the security screen was found locked. The student reported that nothing ...
Incumbents did well in yesterday’s municipal elections in Somerville, with voters returning Joe Curtatone to the mayor’s office for the ninth time since 2004 over his challenger, Marianne Walles, a social worker and union organizer backed by Our Revolution Somerville. Voters also reelected all ...
Longtime Medford City Councilor Breanna Lungo-Koehn won a close victory in Meford's mayoral election yesterday, edging out incumbent Mayor Stephanie Burke by just 652 votes. Burke, who has been mayor since 2015, garnered 47.43% of the vote; Lungo-Koehn earned 52.37%.Lungo-Koehn, a local lawyer, ...
Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault.Tufts student groups Action for Sexual Assault Prevention (ASAP) and Green Dot, as well as the Tufts Center for Awareness, Resources, and Education (CARE), hosted “Take Back the Night” yesterday, a community walk and speak out, in hopes of showing ...
As Somerville residents head to the polls today to decide whether incumbent Joe Curtatone or challenger Marianne Walles will be their mayor for the next two years, both candidates are still making their pitches to voters, which have included a fair number of jabs at Tufts.Both candidates are attacking ...
Tufts students participated in the Lyme Disease Challenge — a day of lectures, panels, discussion and competition designed to educate participants about the dangers of and potential solutions to Lyme disease — on Nov. 1. Alumnus and Trustee Hugh Roome (A'74, F'77, AG'74, FG'80, ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met to hear seven supplementary funding requests and share updates in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room on Sunday night. TCU Senator Deepen Goradia reminded the Senate about its first town hall with Tufts University President Anthony Monaco of the academic year ...
Multiple Tufts students have been victims of phishing scams this semester, and according to Andrew Shiotani, director of the International Center, international students are seeing a rise in phishing incidents. On a national scale, the scams have garnered the attention of the U.S. State Department and ...
Somerville voters will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect four at-large councilors to the Somerville City Council. They will have a choice between eight candidates, and the Daily talked to seven of them about where they stand on the many issues related to Tufts. Among the most important was housing ...
MONDAY"Tufts Composers: Nova November"Details: Student composers will share their works as part of the music courses Contemporary Composition and Composition Practicum. Eight students will share their compositions.Where and when: Distler Performance Hall; 8–10 p.m.TUESDAY"Take Back ...
Somerville officials were blunt about the lack of progress in negotiations with Tufts for a new payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement in a community meeting held Wednesday night at the Somerville Public Library West Branch. Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone said that “nothing” had been resolved ...
Students with the Tufts University School of Medicine attended University President Anthony Monaco's office hour on Monday to address what they called the university's lack of action around its relationship to the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma and a seeming delay in the completion and release ...
Residential Life (ResLife) hosted an off-campus housing resource fair on Oct. 21. While first-years and sophomores are required to have on-campus housing, juniors and seniors are not guaranteed university housing and must either acquire on-campus housing with a high lottery number or search for off-campus ...
Alumni Michael Ewald (LA'94) and John Wright (LA'99) from Bain Capital came to Tufts yesterday for a discussion on their careers at the invitation of Tufts Financial Group. They discussed Bain Capital’s business model and practices along with their roles in the organization. They are two of ...
On Oct. 21 at 1:30 p.m., the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from the Mayer Campus Center that a MacBook that was on loan from the library was stolen. The student who had loaned it left the laptop in Hotung Café briefly in order to get some food, and it was gone when they ...
Dining workers across campus say they are very pleased with the benefits, rights and protections they won in their first collective bargaining agreement with Tufts, which was finally signed by university officials on June 7. Since that time, workers have filed numerous grievances against the university, ...
