Former University President John DiBiaggio died on Feb. 1 at 87. He was Tufts' 11th president, serving from 1992 to 2001.DiBiaggio's signature achievements at Tufts include founding the University College of Citizenship and Public Service in 2000 — now known as the Jonathan M. Tisch College ...
Most first-years spend the fall semester finding their way around the hills of Tufts. Not the Tufts Civic Semester fellows, though. They completed internships, learned Spanish and stayed with host families in Urubamba, a town in the mountains of Peru's Sacred Valley.Civic Semester,one of two overseas ...
Tufts has cancelled its Tufts-in-Hong Kong study abroad program for spring 2020, according to Mala Ghosh, senior director of study abroad and global education for the School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering.Ghosh announced the cancellation in an email on Monday to all Tufts students enrolled ...
Editor’s note: The Daily’s editorial board acknowledges that this article is premised on a conflict of interest. This article is a special feature for Daily Week 2019 that does not represent the Daily’s standard journalistic practices.The basement of Curtis Hall is where the magic happens. Huddled ...
A student protest sparked the founding of the Africana Center, then known as the Afro-American Cultural Center, in 1969. Students' creativity produced the first edition of the black student literary magazine Onyx in 1984. Decades of student activism prompted the creation of the Africana Studiesprogram ...
With several vacant or soon-to-be vacant director positions in the identity-based resource centers at Tufts, students have been asking administrators to act quickly to fill those vacancies and commit to staffing these centers in the interim.Searches for new directors of the Asian American, Latino and ...
Some Tufts students have a light Friday schedule to start the weekend, but not sophomore Mrugank Bhusari, who starts his Friday with classes from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This leaves him with just enough time to pick up a quick lunch from Hodgdon Food-on-the-Run before an afternoon shift at his work-study ...
Tucked away on the G Floor of Tisch Library is the office of Tufts' Digital Collections and Archives (DCA), which manages over five terabytes of data and a collection of physical records that would stretch for about two miles if it were laid out in a straight line. In addition to preserving university ...
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The labor and energies of student activists have been central to the Asian American Center, from its founding in 1983after racist slurs were used against residents of the Asian American House, to its expansion into the entirety of the Start House that will take effect in the fall. Yet the work to make ...
