Rachel Liu is an executive photo editor at The Tufts Daily. She has previously served as editor in chief, associate editor and executive copy editor. Rachel is a senior studying biology, and you can reach her at ruirachel.liu@tufts.edu.
Who pays for unpaid internships? Students certainly do, in the form of their labor. So does the Tufts Career Center — through its summer internship grant program. The $4,500 grant covers full-time internships at nonprofit, public and certain private-sector organizations.
Here’s some of the sights that Daily photographers captured while away from campus.
While most first-years began their Tufts education last fall in classrooms on the Hill, 23 Civic Semester fellows boarded flights to Peru or Thailand instead. These students chose to study abroad during their first semester of college, joining an immersive learning program through the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.
Dotted throughout Tufts’ campus are eight Identity Centers that compose the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion. Visit these wood-frame houses for comfortable spaces to gather, study and find mutual community. Open during the week for student use, the centers also offer regular events, programs and mentorship. Many centers were founded and continue to be sustained as a result of student activism, most recently expressed in the calls to establish a Southwest Asian and North African identity center.
Get away to the White Mountains — a two hours’ drive from campus — at the Tufts Mountain Club Loj in North Woodstock, N.H., open to all students. As a jumping-off point for outdoor adventures, the Loj provides students with a space to relax and disconnect from the outside world.
The Green Line Extension has provided a vital MBTA rail connection for the communities of Medford, Somerville and Cambridge since its 2022 opening. The Daily’s photographers set out on the GLX to capture some sights along the Medford Branch. Medford/Tufts Ball Square Magoun Square Gilman ...
Tufts students woke up on Halloween morning to a campus bedecked in pumpkins, mysteriously placed in the night. Here are some of the best ‘pumpkinings’ as captured by the Daily’s photographers on Thursday.
The Tufts University Social Collective organized the annual Oktoberfest senior event on Saturday. Students enjoyed festival foods catered by The Sausage Guy and live performances by The Oom Pa Pas, a local German music band, on the Academic Quad.
Making program history, the women’s rowing team won the NCAA Division III Championship on Saturday in Bethel, Ohio. Tufts’ first varsity eight rowed to a definitive victory, and the second varsity eight claimed second to secure the highest team score for the Jumbos.
