With an opening lecture from Calvin Gidney on the linguistic perpetuation of stereotypes in children’s cartoons, the Experimental College’s (ExCollege) “A Taste of Tufts” lecture series returned to campus on Friday, March 6.An associate professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child ...
It’s a February afternoon in a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge. Tables ring the room, covered in reams of hand-drawn artwork, rows of brightly colored fur tails and paws and stacks of graphic novels.
While poets of the page may publish their writing in the Canon, Tufts' literary magazine, spoken word poets work outside and beyond the written word. Many write, practice and compete within the Spoken Word Alliance at Tufts (SWAT).
Since the early 2000s, Tufts’ sugar maple trees on the Medford/Somerville campus have been a local source for sap. In 2008, Groundwork Somerville, a local organization whose mission involves sustained regeneration and bringing the community together to enact positive change in the environment, took ...
Interest in computer science has been mounting at Tufts, to the extent that the Department of Computer Science made the decision last spring to restrict the number of students who could enroll in computer science classes to first-years and computer science majors and minors. Given the field's ...
Apparently, ramen burgers are a thing now. I won’t be talking about them. Let’s get back to the no-nonsense roots of bun, burger and toppings.Boston Burger Company (colloquially and hereafter referred to as BBC) provides a startling array of burgers. The Davis Square mainstay has so many, in fact, ...
Through the use of animal models, neuroscientists at the Tufts Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences are breaching new territory in the field of research on autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which could lead to improvements in both medical and therapeutic intervention methods.Their recent research, ...
If you haven’t picked up a copy of El Tit, Tufts’ newest publication, self-described as “Tufts' only oldest, co-ed, non-a cappella, unrecognized satirical publication,” then you’re in luck: After making its debut earlier this semester, according to its Facebook page, El Tit will publish ...
Just over a year ago, Tufts' student health insurance plan was expanded to cover a number of services for transgender individuals. Tufts is now one of 62 colleges and universities in the nation that cover gender reassignment surgery, and one of 82 that offer hormonal treatment.According to Michelle ...
Last week, I wrote a column about the politics of population control. Ironically, or perhaps fittingly, this week I read the most heartbreaking article about forced sterilizations that took place in North Carolina between 1929 and 1974. During that time, 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized. Eighty-five ...
This is the second part of a series about students on the autism spectrum at Tufts. To read the first part, click here.For Aaron Herman, Rachel Bennett and Justin Robbins, three Tufts students with autism spectrum disorders who are members of the Coalition for Autism Support at Tufts (CAST), the ...
This is the first article in a two-part series on students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) at Tufts. Six students sit around a table in the Mayer Campus Center on a Friday evening, fiercely debating. The topics at hand include a2008 Pentagon reportclaiming that Vladimir Putin has Asperger’s ...
Pets have always been described as man's best friends. But for students and faculty involved in the Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction (TIHAI), a walk in the park or game of fetch represent real, positive effects on the health and well-being of both people and animals.TIHAI is a new ...
In direct response to the Diversity Report that helped shape the strategic plan approved by the Board of Trustees in November 2013, Tufts created the new administrative position of chief diversity officer (CDO) which, it hopes, will provide a more strategic approach to addressing the university's ...
Earlier this month, James Glaserbecame the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences after six months serving as the interim dean. The Daily sat down with Glaser to discuss his new official position as dean and his plans for Tufts. Tufts Daily: You’ve been at Tufts since 1991. Can you describe your ...
As an Environmental Studies and International Relations (IR) major (probably), I’ve discovered that there are a few topics you’re bound to encounter in almost any class that addresses the politics of the environment. One of these topics is “overpopulation.”In my Introduction to International ...
This January, the shooting of 12 people at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo shocked the world, and brought the topics of free speech and religious sensitivity to the fore. The violence sparked discussions across campus, where free speech has been a major topic of debate, and where both students and the administration have actively sought to build a campus that embraces differences of ideas, understanding, and active engagement.
Most people can appreciate a day off, and usually professors can condense their lectures and adjust their syllabi to compensate for missed class time; however, a total of six university closings so far this semester — five of which were class days — has meant that this semester has had a particularly ...
Due to the recent successes of Tufts’ sports teams, athletes are becoming more well-known on campus. However, not many students know about Matthew Govostes or Joli Vega, two children who were “drafted” to the men’s and women’s soccer team (respectively) though an organization called Team ...
For approximately the first seven years of my life, I didn’t realize the significance or limitations of gender. I knew that I was a girl because I was told that I was a girl. I even thought that being a girl was better than being a boy because we were allowed to wear both dresses and pants, and could ...
