This year's Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) Colloquium covered the topic "Migration in a Turbulent World," addressing the topic extensively at the 34th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium last weekend. The EPIIC Colloquium ...
MONDAY“On Climate Change, We’re Toast. And if we don’t get serious now, probably burnt toast.”Details: Carnegie Mellon University Professor Granger Morgan, whose research centers around climate change, public policy and environmental systems, will host a discussion on climate change sponsored ...
Tufts International Club (I-Club) expanded its Parade of Nations event this year, adding a week of events celebrating different cultures. The week culminated in the Parade of Nations show, held in Cohen Auditorium on March 2.According to Uzair Sattar and Akshat Rajan, the president and vice president ...
The Tufts Sex Health Reps hosted a series of 27 events as part of Sex Health Week starting on Feb. 24. The week included a diverse range of events, featuring both large discussions and smaller seminars in which students were encouraged to participate.According to Alexandra Donovan, the director of ...
Disclaimer: Arman Smigielski is a former associate editor and executive opinion editor at the Daily. He was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.Tufts University is a top producer of Fulbright students for the 2018–2019 academic year. Tufts was listed alongside other top-producing ...
The Beacon Street residence halls at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts are scheduled to accommodate only incoming first-years for the 2019–2020 academic year, according to Director of Residential Life and Learning Joshua Hartman. The Office of Residential Life and Learning ...
Editor's note: This article is an updated version of earlier coverage the Daily ran of the picket.In a dramatic development in their seven-month campaign for a contract with the university, Tufts Dining workers will vote on whether to go on strike on March 14, according to UNITE HERE Local 26 ...
Tufts Hillel hosted Judith Altmann, a Holocaust survivor and educator, as part of its Cummings/Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education last night for a lecture sharing her story of surviving disease, death marches and Auschwitz.Altmann shared a number of heartbreaking stories, from witnessing ...
Chem fataleOn Feb. 28 at 9:53 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a chemical spill and minor injury at Pearson Chemistry Laboratory. A student accidentally splashed methylene chloride on their face and immediately afterwards washed the chemical compound off using the eye wash ...
Editor's note: Read an updated version of this article here.In a dramatic development in their seven-month contract negotiations with the University, Tufts Dining workers will hold a vote on whether to strike on March 14, UNITE HERE Local 26 President Brian Lang announced this afternoon.Lang made ...
TUESDAY“Picket for a Fair Dining Contract”Details: Tufts Dining workers and Tufts Dining Action Coalition will picket outside of Carmichael Dining Hall to support dining workers in their contract negotiations with the university.Where and when: Carmichael Dining Hall; 4:30–6:30 p.m.WEDNESDAY“Religious ...
Incoming first-year students in the School of Arts and Sciences will be able to spend their first semester in Urubamba, Peru or Kunming, China while earning academic credit and completing service work through the Tufts Civic Semester, a new program jointly offered by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of ...
Robin DiAngelo and Jack Hill held a session yesterday with the Tufts community centered around DiAngelo’s recently released book, "White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism" (2018). The talk focused on the discomfort white people exhibit when their views ...
Tufts responded to allegations submitted by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey in court documents filed against the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma on Jan. 31. This follows reports that Tufts' relationship with Purdue Pharma influenced its schools, research and degree programs, according ...
The Somerville City Council and the mayors of both Somerville and Medford publicly backed Tufts Dining workers’ campaign for a favorable contract with the university over the past week, in a striking signal of public support.A video of Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone endorsing the dining workers’ ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met to discuss supplementary funding requests and hear announcements from officers, committee chairs and members last night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room.TCU Parliamentarian Sharif Hamidi, a sophomore, announced two upcoming resolutions that the TCU Senate ...
Tufts Office of the Provost hosted a discussion titled "Intentional Diversity and Inclusion," with Wade Davis, former NFL player and public speaker on gender, orientation and racial equality, yesterday in the ASEAN Auditorium. The program was co-sponsored by the dean of Arts and Sciences, ...
German Marshall Fund President Karen Donfried believes the United States’ relationship with Europe is as crucial as ever, even though America is retreating from the international order it helped build.Donfried called for a recommitment to transatlantic alliances by reforming them into a “new West” ...
The Tufts Financial Group (TFG) hosted a question and answer session with alumna Sue Decker (LA '84), the founder and CEO of the social networking startup Raftr, on Tuesday night as part of their speaker series.Decker, who received her undergraduate degree in computer science and economics at Tufts, ...
The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) hosted Wall Street Journal war correspondent Jessica Donati for a lecture last night on her experience reporting in the world's most dangerous war zones. The talk covered a range of topics from Donati’s career to wartime reporting ...
