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Yes on 3 campaign engages students in support of transgender rights
By Anar Kansara | September 28“There's no one way that a trans rights activist looks," Tan said.
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Six professors of humanities, social sciences to leave Tufts this year
By Anar Kansara | May 20Over the past several months, at least six Tufts faculty and staff members, notably from the humanities departments and from interdisciplinary consortium of studies in race, colonialism and diaspora (RCD) have announced their departures from their academic positions to pursue other opportunities. The RCD, ...
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Segway inventor Dean Kamen speaks about innovative technologies in Dean's Lecture
By Anar Kansara | February 23Yesterday, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of DEKA Research and Development Corporation Dean Kamen gave a talk on developing inventions and the potential of future engineers as a part of the School of Engineering Dean’s Lecture series.Kamen is known for pioneering inventions such as the wearable ...
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Fletcher hosts climate change strategists, innovators for annual Energy Conference
By Juliana Furgala, Natasha Mayor and Anar Kansara | February 6Opening remarks
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium calls community to action
By Anar Kansara | January 24“It really is about thinking about ... [what] we can do to be a more just, equitable community here,” he said. “But [there’s] also knowledge when we think about what we do as a university -- about creation of knowledge, dissemination of knowledge and knowledge-based policy and action.”
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Fletcher student-led Pakistan trek canceled weeks prior to departure
By Anar Kansara | December 11A student-led trip to Pakistan through The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy was denied approval for continuation on Nov. 14, in a decision made by the International Travel Review Committee (ITRC) under Tufts Global Operations. According to ITRC's documentation, the trip was originally set ...
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Students propose increased accessibility in Asian American Center
By Anar Kansara | December 1Tufts students and community members are advocating for a more accessible Asian American Center in Start House, by relocating Asian-American identity-based housing from the house so that the Center's office is no longer located in a residential building.The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate unanimously passed a ...
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Rainbow House to get physical building in 2018–2019 academic year
By Anar Kansara | October 18Tufts administrators have committed to provide Rainbow House with a physical building for the 2018–2019 academic year, Associate Dean of Student Affairs Chris Rossi told the Daily in an email.Rossi said that he, LGBT Center Director Hope Freeman, ResLife Associate Director of Residential Education ...
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Same Roots, Different Soil explores African diaspora with weekend-long conference
By Anar Kansara | October 16"Same Roots, Different Soil", a three-day long, student-run conference held this past weekend, explored the art, religion and politics of the African diaspora through speakers, panels, art shows and a workshop. The event, which spanned from Oct. 13–15 at different locations on campus, was ...
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Tufts Disorientation Guide content, removal spark backlash from Tufts community
By Anar Kansara | October 3The Tufts Disorientation Guide was removed from the official Tufts University Class of 2020 and 2021 Facebook pages on Sept. 3 in response to complaints received by the administration about some of the content of the guide, according to Patrick Collins, Tufts University executive director of public ...
