The Tufts International Development (TID) Ecuador team’s KoomBook digital library program was selected by Davis Projects for Peace as one of 16 outstanding projects from the summer of 2018, according to senior Cristina da Gama, one of the leaders of the Ecuador team. Davis Projects for Peace is an ...
Dining workers and student activists protested treatment of Tufts Dining Services employees in a series of demonstrations last week centered around claims that Christine Tringale, a night cook supervisor at Hodgdon Food-on-the-Run, experienced verbal harassment and retaliation for comments she made ...
Tufts faculty, staff and employees that are registered to vote can take one hour of paid leave on Election Day to go vote, according to an Oct. 24 email to all university employees from Tufts Human Resources. The new policy will be continued in future years, according to Executive Vice President Patricia ...
Students and administrators, including the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate and University President Anthony Monaco, responded Thursday to the appearance of posters linked to white nationalism around Tufts' Medford/Somerville campus on late Wednesday night.Posters bearing the phrase "It’s ...
The Department of English and Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) co-hosted a full day, marathon reading of the entirety of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" (1818)in the Tisch Family Gallery this Halloween.
Posters bearing the phrase "It's okay to be white" appeared across Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus late Wednesday night on get-out-the-vote signs that were put up this week.The slogan first appeared on the internet forum 4chan on Oct. 31, 2017 with a call to post it “on campuses (and ...
Environmentalist Bill McKibben spoke to a standing room only ASEAN Auditorium about climate change activism on Tuesday evening as part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life's Distinguished Speaker Series. McKibben spoke on a variety of topics, including civil disobedience, divestment ...
“Fossil fuel lobbying has done so much that in the face of changing public opinion we still have not been able to enact change," Mazumdar said. "We need to shut down the fossil fuel industry to bring back control of energy to the people instead of for-profit corporations.”
The City of Somerville's Urban Forestry & Landscape Planner and the City Tree Warden hosted a public information session Thursday night regarding the city’s treatment plan for trees affected by the invasive, tree-killing Emerald ash borer (EAB).EAB is a species of beetle that lays eggs ...
Isn't it meta?On Oct. 22 at 11:54 a.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) responded to a report of approximately 65 students who had congregated on the Academic Quad outside of Ballou Hall to protest Tufts' new protest policy. TUPD monitored the activity of the protest until the ...
Mourners poured into the Granoff Family Hillel Center Monday to remember the lives of the 11 Jews murdered during Saturday’s mass shooting at the Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pa.The attack was the deadliest single targeted act of anti-Semitism ever committed on American ...
Former Representative Steve Israel and Sarah Ullman (LA ’10), co-founder of the super PAC One Vote at a Time, discussed issues surrounding gun control and how to inspire change at a Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life-sponsored event at 50 Milk St. a small venue in downtown Boston.Israel, a ...
The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University is running a number of clinical trials on oncology patients, according to Clinical Trials Director and Research Professor Cheryl London.
Barry Trimmer, a Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences in the Tufts biology department, and his colleague Vishesh Vikas, former biology postdoctoral scholar at Tufts and current assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama, received a National Science ...
A unique take on classical music filled Distler Performance Hall in the Granoff Music Center on Friday with the premiere of “New at Noon: Living Patterns,” an interdisciplinary performance of six musical compositions inspired by repetitive protein sequences.The concert, a collaboration between ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU)Senate met Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear supplementary funding requests and committee updates and discuss the student code of conduct's updated protest policy.TCU Treasurer Izzy Ma, a sophomore, started the meeting by introducing a series ...
The United Nations' Oct. 8 report on global warming has promoted student activist groups and faculty to consider if Tufts could do more to address the climate crisis.Written by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the report details widespread climate-related risks projected ...
Tufts ranks near the bottom of gender parity among Massachusetts colleges, according to a new study released by the nonprofit Eos Foundation on Sept. 27.
Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, a transgender rights advocate whose outspoken views on gender identity prompted his ouster from an Orthodox congregation in Harlem, N.Y., spoke Monday at the Granoff Family Hillel Center about his advocacy, Question 3 on this year's Massachusetts ballot and interpreting ...
University students and administrators are responding to a Financial Times story released earlier this month about the Trump administration's previous consideration of a ban on student visas for Chinese nationals. The proposal came from White House immigration hawks, including Senior Advisor ...
