Carmen Smoak
Carmen Smoak is an Assistant Features Editor at The Tufts Daily. She is a sophomore double majoring in Applied Environmental Studies and Science, Technology, and Society. Carmen can be reached at [email protected].
What makes a Jumbo? Faculty and staff take courses alongside students through Tuition Remission program
Throwing caps in the air, many graduating seniors are about to take their first step out of a lifetime of education and into the next phase of adulthood. After taking countless courses at Tufts, these young adults earn their degree and their freedom from the classroom. However, not all people who take Tufts courses are […]
Tufts and its host communities: Won’t you be my neighbor?
Walking across campus, it is easy to forget that Tufts occupies an integral space within two communities, Medford and Somerville. The campus passes seamlessly over the dividing line between these two cities, making for a campus that feels completely removed from the surrounding community. In reality, through legal affiliations as well as neighborly connections, Tufts […]
Let’s Talk Art: Photography and filmmaking with Farah Al Qasimi
On March 10, Tufts’ School of the Museum of Fine Arts hosted photographer and filmmaker Farah Al Qasimi in its Artist Talks series. A storyteller at heart, Al Qasimi uses her art as a language to communicate social and environmental issues in her home country, the United Arab Emirates. This language, both visual and auditory, […]
Let’s Talk Art: Photography with Tommy Kha
Howdy! My name is Carmen, and I know very little about art. Last semester I was lucky enough to take a course at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attend the Artist Talk Series that they host every semester. The art world can feel like a black box, but listening to artists […]
Meandering through the Middlesex Fells
Standing in the basement of Lane Hall, Jack Ridge, Tufts professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, points to a print map that illustrates the geology of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, commonly referred to as the Fells. He has spent years mapping the geology of the nature reservation, which lies roughly […]
Vulnerability in the Classroom: CELT’s Pedagogical Partnership Program
Over the past five semesters, the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching has worked towards fostering more equitable and inclusive teaching practices through their Pedagogical Partnership Program (P3). The program pairs a student and faculty member in a mutually beneficial partnership in which the student attends and observes one session of the faculty […]
Open dialogues: Conservatism at Tufts
American politics have become vividly polarized in recent years, as “the correlation between party and ideology has really tightened,” according to Tufts’ Professor of Political Science Deborah Schildkraut. Open-minded dialogues between people of differing ideological stances are lacking, both at Tufts and across the nation. Indeed, ‘conservatism’ has taken on strong connotations in many people’s […]
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