Tufts Dining Services will start a pilot initiative, "Food 4 Free," to donate leftover food from dining halls to a local agency beginning in January. The program follows a petition signed by almost 250 people calling for the "rescue and redistribution of Tufts’ unused food."The ...
Balance Your Life (BYL) hosted Caitlin Boyle, founder of the Operation Beautiful movement, as the keynote speaker for a body positivity presentation in Goddard Chapel on the evening of Oct. 15.Boyle's Operation Beautiful is a movement that strives "to end negative self-talk" by leaving ...
This year, Tufts became one of approximately 80 schools that have joined the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, a free alternative college application platform that will go into effect for the 2017 admissions cycle. According to the Coalition’s website, the new application platform ...
Members of the Tufts community gathered yesterday afternoon to commemorate the life of James G. Ennis, a longtime Tufts sociology professor, at the Granoff Family Hillel Center.The memorial ceremony was officiated by university RabbiJeffrey Summit.Ennis, who was 62, passed away unexpectedly after ...
Tufts students living off-campus must provide their local addresses to the university on Student Information Services (SIS) in compliance with a City of Somerville ordinance that went into effect on Sept. 1.The Ordinance Regulating University Accountability, passed by the Somerville Board of Aldermen in ...
On April 20, also known as Marathon Monday, the Tufts Marathon Team (TMT) participated in the 119th annual Boston Marathon. The course started on Main Street in Hopkinton and stretched 26.2 miles, ending on Boylston Street in Boston.According to TMT’s Crowdrise fundraising page, the group raised ...
On April 13, the Tufts Vietnamese Students Club (VSC) commemorated the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnamese American War with an event in the Alumnae Lounge at 7:00 p.m. featuring speakers who highlighted both past and present issues.The event, which was co-sponsored by the Asian American ...
The Senior Class Council (SCC), in collaboration with the Tufts Career Center, will be holding "Senior Launch: Professional Skills for Career Success"on Feb. 27 from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm in order to assist graduating seniors in their career advancement and job search.According to Senior ...
The Tufts La Salsa team will participate in its first interstate competition as entrants in the annualChicago International Salsa Congress, which will be held over this Presidents' Day long weekend.Seven couples on the team are scheduled to compete in the amateur competition this upcoming weekend, ...
A meeting of queer student groups was held on Jan. 25 in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Center to brainstorm ways to better serve the queer community at Tufts University, LGBT Center Director Nino Testa said.The discussion focused on three themes, according to sophomore Emily Lansky, ...
