Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Director of Somerville Cares About Prevention (SCAP) Cory Mashburn last week announced the start of Somerville's annual liquor vendor compliance checks, which will continue until July.
Tufts' latest environmental campaign, led by students in the Experimental College (ExCollege) class Environmental Action: Shifting from Saying to Doing, is trying to change campus culture in regard to paper waste.
In the old days, it was very clear who was a creep and who wasn't. Drunk Jimmy who squatted in the house next door and threw beer bottles into toddler's backyards: creep. That biology teacher who offered young female students back massages after school: creep. Pee−wee Herman: definitely a creep.
The first three months of 2010 have been violent ones in the Western Hemisphere, marked by two massive earthquakes in two different areas. The earthquakes in Haiti and Chile have each been widely covered by the news media, but though the events occurred relatively close to each other geographically, there are significant geological differences between the two natural disasters.
Many Americans, including members of the Tufts community, continue to donate money to and participate in relief efforts for the people of Haiti following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked the island nation on Jan. 12 and left over 200,000 dead. However, the relief effort for the more recent Feb. 27 Chilean earthquake, which registered a massive 8.8 on the Richter Scale, has been more tepid.
The City of Somerville last week unveiled the city's first vision statement, the result of extensive public discussions about Somerville's future that involved over 250 residents.
Professor of Physics Roger Tobin, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is this year's winner of the Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising, recognizing his success in engaging students.
Tufts on March 1 joined a dozen other schools and groups in pledging a combined total of $350,000 over five years to the OpenCourseWare (OCW) Consortium in a show of support of information sharing.
If you've ever bought a postcard in California, you know that, for most people, the idea of Hollywood can be summed up by a single overused, emblematic image: nine 45−foot letters presiding over Cahuenga Peak that, together, make up the Hollywood sign.
To some people, a blind date sounds like a miserable proposition, but who better to set you up than a friend who says, "I know the perfect person for you!"
Tufts Wilderness Orientation (TWO) is known as one of Tufts' most popular programs for incoming freshmen, but trying to get on TWO's support staff is just as competitive a process, if not more so. Jumbos occasionally go to great lengths to stand out.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate's Culture, Ethnicity, and Community Affairs (CECA) Committee has decided to expand its annual culture event, known in the past as Culture Fest, to a weeklong event with the goal of increasing campus awareness of diversity.
The Tufts Panhellenic Council last week kicked off a fundraising campaign for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) with a series of bake sales in the Mayer Campus Center.
The Tufts Energy Conference, which originally began as a duo of panels five years ago, will next month be bigger than ever, spanning two days of speeches, panels and workshops.
A brand new student publication recently appeared on the Hill this semester, but if students didn't pick up a copy within a day or two of its release, they might not have known. The demand for Breakthrough: Tufts' Undergraduate Science Magazine, which covers both Tufts and worldwide scientific news, outstripped supply so greatly that the 500−copy print run of the first issue vanished from the usual student publication repositories almost as quickly as it appeared.
The Medford Historical Society on April 14 will host "The History of Tufts University," an event featuring a walking tour of campus led by Kyna Hamill (G '06), co−chair of the society's programming committee, and a lecture on Tufts' early history.
No, the kids climbing all over the yellow and orange equipment and futzing around in a sandbox in the small, fenced structure on Powder House Boulevard are not Tufts students indulging in the latest trendy piece of ironic nostalgia. They are, believe it or not, actual children, utilizing the Tot Lot, a little−known feature of the Medford−Somerville campus for more than 30 years.
Tufts on Feb. 26 was given the Outstanding Community Partner Award by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) for its ongoing partnership with Medford public schools.
Mayor of Somerville Joseph Curtatone and Executive Director of the Somerville Public Library Nancy Milnor last month announced the city's upcoming launch of the "One City, One Book," campaign, which encourages the community to collectively read a selected book.
The Student Athlete Advisory Committee's (SAAC) Help Haiti Dodgeball Tournament on Friday raised over $500 to aid relief efforts in Haiti.
