The Center for State Policy Analysis (cSPA)launched on Feb. 13, housed within the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Barnum Hall. As the name implies, the new center will focus its work on state-level policymaking in the commonwealth.Evan Horowitz, the center’s inaugural executive director, ...
The Tufts Office of Sustainability announced the seven winners of this year’s Green Fund earlier this month. In one of two such grants awarded to the Medford/Somerville campus, winners Alicia Bellido and Bayley Koopman plan to renovate the rooftop garden on top of the Tisch Library in order to improve ...
The Women’s Center held its ninth annual Gender and Culture symposium titled “Sex and Accessibility” on Friday, at which student and guest speakers explored issues surrounding sexual education, comprehensive healthcare and more.The event, held in Dowling Hall, began with a panel titled "Queering ...
Social and political activism have been integral parts of Tufts' campus culture for generations. Since its founding in 1980, the Daily has been covering campus activism in its many forms for various issues throughout the years. In commemoration of its 40th anniversary issue, the Daily is highlighting ...
Significant construction and capital projects have transformed the face of Walnut Hill, home to Tufts' first buildings and the nexus of the Medford/Somerville campus, since the Daily's founding. The following is an overview of the Daily's coverage of construction on the Hill since 1980, ...
The Daily is constitutionally mandated to be Tufts’ newspaper of record, striving to capture Tufts’ history for future generations to look upon. From overhauls of academic requirements to a mass resignation in student government, the following is a selection of developments from Tufts' history ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) passed four supplementary funding requests and discussed two abstracts for future resolutions in its meeting last night in the Sophia Gordon multipurpose room.The Filipinx Student Union requested $2,426 to host a martial arts workshop, which the Allocations Board (ALBO) ...
MONDAY"TUPIT Screening: 'True Justice'"Details: The Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College (TUPIT) will host a free screening of the documentary "True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight For Equality" (2019), which relates historical injustices of the U.S. prison ...
Holocaust survivor Ludwik Szymanski visited Tufts on Wednesday evening, retelling his life story which began with his familysurviving the Holocaust in his native Poland to his eventual career as a pediatric psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School.The Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) fraternity partnered ...
Ayse Parla, an assistant professor of anthropology at Boston University, discussed her personal accounts in and research on the influence of hope and privilege on migration patterns and trends in Turkey in a book talk at 48 Professors Row on Wednesday evening.Parla holds a Bachelor's degree in Social ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life will provide two special summer fellowship programs to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the college's founding, funding student work for election-related campaigns in addition to four students' trips to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.Students ...
A city ordinanceprohibiting the sale of plastic straws and stirrers at Somerville businesses went into effect on Feb. 9. The ordinance, passed by the Somerville City Council last May, aims to reduce waste and pollution caused by single-use plastics.Under the ordinance, businesses in the city can no ...
My Morning Jacket's "Steam Engine" (2003)On Feb. 15 at 2:45 p.m., a hot water leak occurred in Carmichael Hall. A heat pipe burst, causing rooms to fill with steam and hot water. The steam set off a fire alarm, and Medford Fire Department (MFD) and the Tufts University Police Department ...
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Advising Carol Baffi-Dugan, replaced by Matthew Bellof (LA'06, AG'09), began her transition from the department on Feb. 3. According to an email sent to the Tufts community on Jan. 31, Baffi-Dugan will continue in a part-time capacity as the director of pre-health ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senateelected a new chairperson for its Administration and Policy (A&P) Committee and approved supplementary funding requests from seven student organizations at its meeting on Monday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room.Former Diversity Officer Grant Gebetsbergerwon ...
Applications for this year’s Tufts Community Grants (TCG) cycle opened on Feb. 3 and close on March 13. The winners will be announced in early April, according to the Office of Government and Community Relations’ website.Tufts Community Grants (TCG) is completely funded by Tufts faculty and staff ...
Yesterday, the School of Engineering began its annual celebration of National Engineers Week (E-Week), which honors the profession and study of engineering.E-Week, which will continue through Friday, is intended to highlight what engineering means to both engineers and non-engineers and to introduce ...
Gabrielle Robbins, a Ph.D. candidate at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), spoke on Friday about how local farmers in Madagascar navigate their relationships with pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies in a globalized setting.Robbins visited Tufts for the Science, Technology, and ...
TUESDAY"Student-Alumni Panel and Networking Night"Details: Engineering alumni will return to campus to network with students and discuss career paths as part of the School of Engineering's National Engineers Week programming. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. and appetizers will be served.Where ...
Construction remains on schedule for the Joyce Cummings Center, despite faculty’s mixed perspectives on the building design and a recent on-site injury. A worker was injured on the structure's fourth floor when strong winds caused a piece of the structure’s decking to hit the worker on Jan. ...
