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, ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate considered proposed changes to its bylaws and heard 10 supplementary funding requests from student organizations at its meeting on Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon multipurpose room.TCU Parliamentarian Finn McGarghan led the body through the proposed amendments ...
MONDAY“O V, Where Art Thou? A New Approach to Diatonic Set Theory"Details: Jessica Fulkerson, a lecturer in the music department, will lead the next installment of the Department of Music's Colloquium Series. Fulkerson will present on medieval music, focusing on the applications of a new ...
First-years Jenna Kaplan and Valerie Infante and sophomore Max Miller were elected to the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate following special elections originally planned to fill only two vacancies on Wednesday.Elections Commission (ECOM)Chair Matt Zachem wrote in an email to the Daily earlyThursday ...
Correction: A previous version of this article placed a quote by David Watts out of context. The article implied that Watts was referring to junior and senior housing assignments when he was, in fact, referring to housing assignments at the School at the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). The article has been ...
Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn was officially sworn into office last month, after oustingtwo-term incumbent former Mayor Stephanie Burke by a margin of 645 votes to become the City of Medford’s 32ndMayor.Lungo-Koehn, the owner of a real estate brokerage and a local attorney specializing in family ...
Down to Discharge (DTD)On Jan. 30 at 10:10 p.m., a fire alarm was activated in the basement of the Delta Tau Delta house at 98 Professors Row, Medford. The Somerville Fire Department (SFD) and Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded. At the scene, they concluded that a discharged fire extinguisher ...
Collective bargaining negotiations between Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone’s administration and one of Somerville’s police unions remain deadlocked on the issue of body cameras, which the mayor supports and the union opposes.Curtatone says that body-worn cameras for police are his “top priority” ...
Eight faculty members at the Tufts University School of Medicinesued Tufts over the medical school's revised compensation plan and research space allocation guidelines, which they allege violate their lifetime work contracts and threaten to force them out from the school.According to the official ...
Chinese students at Tufts have been working with other students across campus and different colleges to organize aid efforts following the outbreak of the coronavirus in the Hubei province of China.Haitong Du, who is working to mobilize students at Tufts, spoke to the importance of action.“As students ...
Scientists from Tufts University and the University of Vermont (UVM) successfully created programmable, living nanobots from the cells of frog embryos, called xenobots. Michael Levin, the Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center, and Dr. Douglas Blackiston, a scientist ...
Somerville political leaders called for the passage of a local home rule petition which would allow Somerville to lower its voting age to 16 for municipal elections, in testimony at the Massachusetts State House on Jan. 22.The lobbying drive follows the Somerville City Council'sunanimous passage ...
The Fletcher Democrats, the Tufts Political Science Department and JumboVote hosted a mock Iowa Caucus last night in Barnum Hall, during which students demonstrated support for their preferred choice of Democratic presidential nominee.Much like the real Iowa caucuses, students stood in designated parts ...
Camille Lizarríbar, dean of student affairs and senior associate dean of Yale College, was named the next dean of student affairs and chief student affairs officer for the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering in a Jan. 24 email sent to the Tufts community.Lizarríbar will officially start in ...
Maren Greathouse was selected as the new Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion Education for the Medford/Somerville and School at the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) campuses, announced in an email to the Tufts community on Jan. 8. She began her new role on Jan. 13.Her appointment follows that of ...
Tuesday"Faculty Research Workshop — Leaving Money on the Table: Understanding Low Medicaid Participation Among Older, Low-Income Americans"Details: Associate Professor of Economics Melissa McInerney will be the featured speaker at the workshop designed to facilitate feedback on scholars' ...
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), released the findings of its January poll of Iowa residents ages 18-29 on Jan. 24, finding the strongest support among Democrats for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at 39%.Thirty-five percent of those polled are “extremely ...
As part of a global day of protest, the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition organized a protest at the Massachusetts State House on Saturday, Jan. 25, demanding the U.S. avoid war with Iran, not impose sanctions on Iran and remove its troops from the Middle East.Activists in cities ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate heard 10 supplementary funding requests after revising tenure and promotion recommendation criteria and welcoming newly elected TCU Senators.TCU Treasurer Sharif Hamidi provided new senators with an overview of the Allocation Board’s (ALBO) deliberation process ...
