The Early Years
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The Express!
Tweet Friday, February 1 Join the ExCollege: Become a Board Member or a Peer Leader! Dive into the inner-workings of the ExCollege by joining the ExCollege Board or becoming an Explorations or Perspectives Peer Leader. The ExCollege Board consists of 5 faculty members and 5 students and meets once per month. The Board tackles policy, [...]
The Express!
Tweet Join the ExCollege Board! The ExCollege is beginning the search for new students to join its Board! The ExCollege Board consists of 5 Tufts faculty members as well as 5 current Tufts students. The ExCollege Board meets once a month and works toward setting policy, selecting new courses for each semester, planning campus events, [...]
The Express!
Tweet Friday, December 7: The Last Express of the Semester Be a part of the ExCollege! If you have ever wanted to command a classroom, think about joining either the Explorations or Perspectives freshmen seminar programs as a Peer Leader! Our Peer Leaders co-teach a seminar, lead their students through orientation, and act as student [...]
Election Night Recap
Tweet The energy on campus and around the country built up greatly this past Tuesday, and on the Hill this election buzz climaxed with our Election Night Extravaganza! The Campus Center first began to feel the presence of a crowd around 7:30pm. Student groups with diverse interests and enthusiasm for the night’s affairs lined the [...]
Election Night Extravaganza
Tweet Mark your calendar for the evening of Tuesday, November 6th. You’ll want to spend it with the ExCollege in the Mayer Campus Center. Trust me. That’s were hundreds and hundreds of students were four years ago as the results of the state and national elections were announced and analyzed. Stuff starts happening at 7:30pm [...]
Our “Researcher in Chief”
Tweet Tufts President Anthony Monaco just presented the latest talk in the A Taste of Tufts series. He discussed two of his most important discoveries, the gene responsible for X-linked Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and a gene specifically involved in human speech and language. Though many in the crowded classroom were transported back to [...]
A Taste of Neutrinos
Tweet Just got back from Hugh Gallagher’s presentation about neutrinos, and my head is spinning (or oscillating, which would be more appropriate)! Thanks, Prof. Gallagher for enlightening the group of faculty, staff, and students about “the loner of the universe” and for awakening my inner physicist!
Conception of the Taste of Tufts Lecture Series
Tweet I was in the bookstore last fall, dodging freshman who don’t know enough to check Amazon first to see how much textbooks are elsewhere, looking for a programming book. On my way towards the engineering section, I stopped to eavesdrop on a pair of students who were talking about the books. I quickly realized [...]
Drumming, clapping, and singing with Prof. Locke
Tweet Over twenty people attended A Taste of Tufts this past Friday and heard about Prof. David Locke’s research. As an ethnomusicologist, Prof. Locke has learned with and from the Dagombe people of Ghana, in particular regarding their culture of drumming. Check out the Tufts Daily article at http://www.tuftsdaily.com/a-taste-of-tufts-david-locke-1.2699611 for more information. Join us this [...]