Editor's note: This story is reprinted from the 2016 Commencement issue of The Tufts Daily with minimal edits.During the early morning hours of Saturday, April 2, 2016, first-year Alex Bhak passed away in a tragic accident in downtown Boston. He is survived by his mother, father and younger ...
Sophomore Nikki Venkataraman said she left the talk appreciating the Supreme Court's norm of civility.
TEDxTufts, the independently organized Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference, brought ten speakers to the stage in Cohen Auditorium on Sunday afternoon to share talks covering topics ranging from cybersecurity to one woman’s story of her gender transition.The theme of this year’s ...
This semester, the Committee on Student Life (CSL) has commenced a comprehensive analysis and review of student life policies within the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Committee members are specifically examining the Code of Conduct.The ...
According to the Budget Overview for 2017, the shared budget of the Schools of Art and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) must pay off $10 million in outstanding debt this year as part of its annual payment of debt and interest against a total of $161 million in outstanding debt. This has been ...
Tufts' Athletics Department hired Matt Callahan in October to assume the role of assistant director of recreation and club sports, a position that is new to the university.Although the position just recently came into being, the idea of adding a full-time employee to focus on club sports and ...
After weeks of bargaining, the nurses of Tufts Medical Center, who have been working to reach a contract with the hospital in the months since their July 12 strike, are continuing negotiations. Last summer's action was the first nurses' strike in Boston in more than 30 years, fueled by ...
When staff nurseMaryHavlicek CornacchiareportedtoTuftsMedicalCenter at 7 a.m. on July 12, itwasnotforthe early morning shift. Rather,Cornacchia, along with nearly 1,200 of the Tufts Medical Center nursing staff, was joined by community members in what would be the first nurses' strike in ...
An undeniable truth of creating effective, holistic news coverage is that to represent the community as accurately as possible, a paper needs to have writers who bring myriad perspectives and experiences to the table and to their writing. Unfortunately, in our paper and in media outlets across the country, ...
During the early morning hours of Saturday, April 2, first-year Alex Bhak passed away in a tragic accident in downtown Boston. He is survived by his mother, father and younger sister, Maya.The Office of the President sent out an email to the Medford/Somerville campus community that day noting that ...
