Students with the Tufts University School of Medicine attended University President Anthony Monaco's office hour on Monday to address what they called the university's lack of action around its relationship to the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma and a seeming delay in the completion and release ...
Residential Life (ResLife) hosted an off-campus housing resource fair on Oct. 21. While first-years and sophomores are required to have on-campus housing, juniors and seniors are not guaranteed university housing and must either acquire on-campus housing with a high lottery number or search for off-campus ...
Alumni Michael Ewald (LA'94) and John Wright (LA'99) from Bain Capital came to Tufts yesterday for a discussion on their careers at the invitation of Tufts Financial Group. They discussed Bain Capital’s business model and practices along with their roles in the organization. They are two of ...
On Oct. 21 at 1:30 p.m., the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from the Mayer Campus Center that a MacBook that was on loan from the library was stolen. The student who had loaned it left the laptop in Hotung Café briefly in order to get some food, and it was gone when they ...
Dining workers across campus say they are very pleased with the benefits, rights and protections they won in their first collective bargaining agreement with Tufts, which was finally signed by university officials on June 7. Since that time, workers have filed numerous grievances against the university, ...
After three years of million-dollar deficits and austerity, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser said that the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is projected to run a small surplus in the current fiscal year. However, every one of Tufts' other schools is projecting a deficit ...
Members of the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met Sunday evening in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss Allocations Board (ALBO) funding. There were 12 supplementary funding requests from clubs and organizations presented, discussed and voted on by senators. All requests passed, with ...
University President Anthony Monaco announced the completion of former U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern's report on Tufts’ ties to opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family in a town hall last Friday.The report will be presented to the Board of Trustees at its upcoming November meeting ...
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy hosted a conference titled “Decolonizing International Relations: Law, Development, Resistance” on Friday. The conference included a three-part panel. Each section highlighted a different aspect of decolonization. Sections were titled “Re-examining the ...
MONDAY"Lunch & Learn with Max Felker-Kantor"Details: Max Felker-Kantor (LA'06) will discuss his new book "Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD"(2018), which focuses on how the Los Angeles Police Department has consolidated power since the Watts ...
Somerville Ward 6 Councilor Lance Davis and Scape North America CEO Andrew Flynn, as well as officials from their architectural contractor Utile, held a community meeting Wednesday night at the Community Baptist Church in Davis Square regarding Scape's plans for its recent purchase in Davis Square.Scape ...
The Institute for Global Leadership and Latin American Committee (LAC) held a panel titled “Reflections from Peacebuilding in Colombia and on Security in Latin America” yesterday. The event drew on thoughts, experiences and regional perspectives to discuss Colombian conflict and the peacebuilding ...
Lawsuits against Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, who own the company, have been paused until next month to provide the opportunity for the company to work out settlements for the nearly 2,600 suits against them, according to Associated Press reporting.Among the suits paused, hundreds of local ...
The Rez Cafe has raised the prices of some of its coffee drinks due to the recent minimum wage increase in the state of Massachusetts. The student-run coffee shop, located in the Mayer Campus Center, serves as a social hub and has not seen a raise in prices since the '90s, according to its Facebook ...
Kenny Fries, an author and disability rights activist who mainly writes on his experiences as a disabled, gay, Jewish man, visited Tufts yesterday to read from and talk about his recent memoir, "In the Province of the Gods" (2017), as well as preview his forthcoming book, "Stumbling Over ...
The Tufts administration is advancing plans to replace the Hamilton Pool with an Olympic-sized pool in hopes of providing the Tufts, Medford and Somerville communities with an updated facility for swimming use. However, the university has not yet finalized a specific timeline and budget since the initial ...
On Oct. 16 at 1:30 a.m., an individual called the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) and requested assistance from the seventh floor of Dowling Hall. The person, who is not affiliated with Tufts, said that they were being followed by several people and would follow them frequently. They identified ...
Following the defacement of a sign in the African American Trail Project exhibit in Aidekman Arts Center discovered on Oct. 5, University President Anthony Monaco and Provost and Senior Vice President Nadine Aubry issued a statement condemning the vandalism and announced a new initiative by the administration ...
Tufts announced that it has joined 164 other public and private universities and colleges in signing an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the roughly 700,000 young immigrants who came to the United States as children and who hold Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status on ...
Members of the currently suspended fraternity Delta Upsilon (DU) are now living in the newly acquired Tufts property at 123 Packard Ave., according to Dean of Student Life and Engagement Christopher Rossi. After the university ordered the suspension of DU operations in June, DU brothers who had planned ...
