Tufts’ construction of eight new squash courts — a 13,500-square foot addition to the Gantcher Center — is about a third of the way complete, according to Gretchen Von Grossmann, director of capital programs. ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, a Boston-based architecture firm, designed the ...
Abdul-Malik Merchant has begun his role as the new Muslim chaplain for the Tufts University Chaplaincy. While at Tufts, he also will continue to serve in his current position as the Associate Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC), a mosque and community center in Roxbury that ...
Disclaimer: Mitch Lee is a staff writer at the Tufts Daily. Lee was not involved in the writing or editing of this article. Tufts will host its first full-scale OUTREACH Day, a day of service in the area around Tufts aimed at introducing first-year students to service opportunities at Tufts and connecting ...
The Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) has received a $100,000 grant titled “$100K for 100” from the Cummings Foundation, one of the largest foundations in New England, according to the IGL September newsletter.The grant will fund an IGL project titled “Human Rights, Human Security and Preparing ...
In a crowd outside the Mayer Campus Center that overflowed onto Talbot Ave., university students attended a strike last Friday to demand action on the climate crisis before joining a crowd of more than 7,000 protestors at City Hall Plaza in Boston.The Tufts contingent, organized by Sunrise Movement ...
The Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) is revising plans for a new health research institute, following faculty opposition to aspects of the preliminary proposals of departmental reorganization, according to Professor of Developmental, Molecular & Chemical Biology Brent Cochran.While the ...
MONDAY"Wear Blue in Solidarity"Details: Tufts Community Union Senate announced in an email last night that students should wear blue to show their support for the Jewish community at Tufts.Where and When:Tufts University, all day.TUESDAY"Annual Environmental Brunch"Details: This ...
Disclaimer: Jonah Zwillinger is the business director for the Tufts Daily. Andres Borjas is an assistant news editor for the Tufts Daily. Neither Zwillinger nor Borjas was involved in the writing or editing of this article.The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate announced the results of its fall ...
Last night, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) held a press call with college journalists around the country, answering questions on a range of issues from the student debt crisis to the climate crisis.Booker began by delivering brief opening remarks, first highlighting the theme of his campaign: common purpose.“I’ve ...
Nancy Thompson, former vice president and dean of students at Hamilton College, has joined the Tufts community as the dean of student affairs and chief student affairs officer ad interim. As Tufts begins to find someone to fill that position permanently, Thompson brings decades of experience and skill ...
On Sept. 7 at 12:55 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers observed an individual carrying a “No Parking” sign on campus and identified the person. The student stated that it was already broken and that they were taking it for safekeeping. The officers confiscated the sign from ...
The Dean of Student Affairs office, in conjunction with Hillel, held a community gathering yesterday in response to Sunday's incident where a student found a swastika on their door. In addition to students and religious leaders on campus, University President Anthony Monaco and Provost and Senior ...
Purdue Pharma, the company whose signature opioid, OxyContin, is widely seen as driving the nation’s opioid crisis, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sept. 15. The move is part of an ongoing effort by the company’s owners, the Sackler family, to settle more than 2,600 lawsuits brought by municipal ...
Scape, a British company that builds private, for-profit dorms, acquired half a block of Davis Square real estate running along Elm Street and Grove Street over the summer. The company has told many business owners they will need to relocate in a year and a half, though the owner of the Burren says ...
The Somerville Police Department (SPD) has come under heavy criticism in recent days after 13 of its officers participated in the police deployment at the Aug. 31 Straight Pride Parade in downtown Boston.The police have been accused of using excessive force against counter-protesters. Videos and photos ...
Seven cases of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a mosquito-borne disease fatal to humans and animals, have been confirmed since the outbreak started this summer in western Massachusetts. While Medford and Somerville are at low risk for the disease, Grafton, where Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary ...
A Jewish student found a swastika posted on their door on Sunday night, according to an email sent to the Tufts community by University President Anthony Monaco yesterday. According to the email, both Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) are investigating ...
Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University, was hosted by Tisch College, the School of Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s Office and the history department on Tuesday evening in the ASEAN Auditorium in the Cabot Intercultural Center, as part of the ...
A Jewish student found a swastika attached to their door on Sunday night, an email from University President Anthony Monaco this morning said."I condemn this cowardly act of hatred and ignorance. It is a direct attack on our Jewish community and an affront to our values as an institution," ...
The Board of Trustees held their last meeting of the 2018–19 academic year during Commencement weekend in May. The Trustees heard presentations from the university administration on the institution’s financial outlook and its efforts to promote diversity, according to a June 25 message from University ...
