A city ordinanceprohibiting the sale of plastic straws and stirrers at Somerville businesses went into effect on Feb. 9. The ordinance, passed by the Somerville City Council last May, aims to reduce waste and pollution caused by single-use plastics.Under the ordinance, businesses in the city can no ...
My Morning Jacket's "Steam Engine" (2003)On Feb. 15 at 2:45 p.m., a hot water leak occurred in Carmichael Hall. A heat pipe burst, causing rooms to fill with steam and hot water. The steam set off a fire alarm, and Medford Fire Department (MFD) and the Tufts University Police Department ...
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Advising Carol Baffi-Dugan, replaced by Matthew Bellof (LA'06, AG'09), began her transition from the department on Feb. 3. According to an email sent to the Tufts community on Jan. 31, Baffi-Dugan will continue in a part-time capacity as the director of pre-health ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senateelected a new chairperson for its Administration and Policy (A&P) Committee and approved supplementary funding requests from seven student organizations at its meeting on Monday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room.Former Diversity Officer Grant Gebetsbergerwon ...
Applications for this year’s Tufts Community Grants (TCG) cycle opened on Feb. 3 and close on March 13. The winners will be announced in early April, according to the Office of Government and Community Relations’ website.Tufts Community Grants (TCG) is completely funded by Tufts faculty and staff ...
Yesterday, the School of Engineering began its annual celebration of National Engineers Week (E-Week), which honors the profession and study of engineering.E-Week, which will continue through Friday, is intended to highlight what engineering means to both engineers and non-engineers and to introduce ...
Gabrielle Robbins, a Ph.D. candidate at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), spoke on Friday about how local farmers in Madagascar navigate their relationships with pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies in a globalized setting.Robbins visited Tufts for the Science, Technology, and ...
TUESDAY"Student-Alumni Panel and Networking Night"Details: Engineering alumni will return to campus to network with students and discuss career paths as part of the School of Engineering's National Engineers Week programming. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. and appetizers will be served.Where ...
Construction remains on schedule for the Joyce Cummings Center, despite faculty’s mixed perspectives on the building design and a recent on-site injury. A worker was injured on the structure's fourth floor when strong winds caused a piece of the structure’s decking to hit the worker on Jan. ...
U.S. Representative Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) discussed the upcoming census cycle and its policy implications with Tufts Census Action (TCA) in Cohen Auditorium last night, as part of a talk moderated by TCA's President and Founder Caroline Wolinsky and Community Outreach Director Anton Shenk, ...
Disclaimer: Hannah Kahn is a former executive audio producer at the Daily. Hannah was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary election on Tuesday with 25.7% of the vote, followed closely by former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South ...
Members of Tufts Climate Action (TCA) rallied yesterday ahead of today's day of action by activists from over 50 colleges across the U.S. to demand that their universities divest their endowments from the fossil fuel industry.TCA activists gathered outside of the Mayer Campus Center during open ...
Constant callerOn Feb. 7, around 1:30 p.m., a student reported that for the last two days, they had been receiving numerous calls from a number without a caller ID. The content of the calls were not reported. The student reported on Feb. 8 that the calls were still ongoing and persistent.TUPD recommended ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ORLL) told lead resident assistant (RA) applicants by email on Jan. 31 that they would be eliminating the lead RA role entirely, and therefore would not be interviewing any candidates to fill the position next year. This announcement came at the end of the ...
Last week, The Tufts International Center contacted students from three of the countries recently added to the Trump administration’s travel ban to clarify the updated ban’s provisions and to offer a number of travel and counseling resources.The expansion of Presidential Proclamation 9645 to bar ...
A portion of plaster in room 202 of Eaton Hall came loose and fell through the ceiling over the weekend of Jan. 25 to 26, according to Director of Building Operations in Medford Jeff McKay.There were no injuries as a result of the plaster falling, as there was nobody in the room at the time, according ...
As part of a deliberate reorganization, Student Affairs administrators Kevin Kraft, Lindsay Ferguson and Laura DaRos assumed new positions within that division last month, according to Dean of Student Life and Engagement Chris Rossi.Rossi stated that planning the reshuffling of administrators in Student ...
The Tufts University Alumni Association will soon send ballots to Tufts alumni to select the candidate who will fill one open seat on the Board of Trustees. The voting period will run from Feb. 17 through April 12, with the result to be announced at the Alumni Council meeting on April 25, according ...
Verna DeLauer, an associate professor specializing in natural resource management at Franklin Pierce University, led a talk titled “Being Seen, Feeling Heard: Designing Intimate-Scaled Spaces on Urban College Campuses” as part of last week’sDepartment of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning ...
Rogers Smith, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered a lecture on feminist history and politics, "Long-After the Suffrage: Gender Differences and the Quest for Citizenship," in Barnum Hall on Friday, Feb. 7.The event, ...
