Commencement 2012 Online
Posted by Kimberly Moniz in Alumni, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Photos, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, School of Engineering, School of Medicine, Social Media, Student Experience, Students, The Fletcher School, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Web on May 15, 2012
You may be on campus this Sunday for commencement or you may be cheering on your friends and family from afar. Either way, you can get an inside look at the day by following Tufts Commencement 2012 online. We’d love to have you join the conversation, so check out how you can take part:
- Twitter: We’ll be live tweeting from @TuftsLive, so follow along from early morning preparation to the procession, the awarding of honorary degrees, and the commencement address. Use the hashtag #Tufts2012 to let us know what you’re up to.
- Web: Watch the live streamed ceremony at commencement.tufts.edu, where you will also find the @TuftsLive and #Tufts2012 feeds, so you’ll be sure to not miss a thing.
- Instagram: We love photos! If you’re on campus, snap some pictures and tag them #Tufts or #Tufts2012. We’ll be capturing some shots too, so be sure to check them out (username: TuftsUniversity)
- Facebook: We’ve been getting ready for commencement, and will have tons more photos to share just after the ceremony ends.
- Foursquare: Check into Tufts University Commencement 2012 on Foursquare, include a shout out about graduation, and you’ll earn the Hats Off Badge.
The Asian American Alliance hosts a “Teach-in”
Posted by Ashley Wood in School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, Students, Video on May 15, 2012
An Asian American Studies minor is the newest minor at Tufts, but before the program was approved, the Asian American Alliance hosted a “Teach-In” to talk about what Asian American Studies is and why it’s important. The below video shows the meeting where they first present the audience with the question, What does studying Asian American identity mean? They examine stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans, argue why they believe a minor is important to the Tufts community, and even discuss historical strikes on college campuses revolving around ethnic studies programs. In their own words, the group is advocating for a “generational commitment to a robust Asian American studies, Africana studies, and Race/Ethnic studies program.”
Check out the Teach-In:
Tufts on Instagram
Posted by Ashley Wood in Community, Faculty, Photos, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, Staff, Student Experience, Students on May 14, 2012
While both Tufts University and Tufts Alumni have started using Instagram to document life at Tufts, it’s always nice when students, staff, and visitors share their experiences of campus through social media. Here are a few great Instagram images we came across with the tag #Tufts. Feel free to follow the school’s accounts - TuftsUniversity and TuftsAlumni - and don’t forget to tag your photos so we can check out your time at Tufts!
Creating masterpieces in the dining hall #tufts @kaitlynhodgman
My school has the cutest mascot <3 #tufts #jumbo
#jumbo #tufts
@ECquidditch children playing at #tufts #playground #swings #akidatheart
In honor of @areyouwhoyouwanttobe, let's spend today in and around #Davis #square. #medford #Boston #Tufts #TuftsUniversity #subway #red_line #T #theT #MBTA #train #sign #map
Growing Civic Fruit
Posted by Katherine McManus in Active Citizenship, Alumni, Environment, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Social Media, Video, Web on May 11, 2012
What sounds more like Tufts than puns, civic engagement, and the environment? It won’t come as a surprise that Tufts alumni are essential to The Boston Tree Party.
The Party is a diverse coalition of organizations, institutions, and communities from across the Greater Boston Area coming together in support of Civic Fruit. We call for the planting of fruit trees in civic space and promote the fruits of civic engagement. Each community has committed to planting and caring for a pair of heirloom apple trees.
Three Tufts Alumni are leading the way at The Boston Tree Party. Lisa Gross is the Chairman and Founder, Maura Schorr Beaufait is the Chief of Operations, and Beth Nollner is Project Coordinator. Between them they hold degrees from Tufts/MFA, the Friedman School of Nutrition, and the Urban and Environmental Policy graduate program.
Check out this short documentary: “Growing Civic Fruit: A Documentary Film about the Boston Tree Party”
You can follow the Boston Tree Party on Twitter at @BostTreeParty
Tufts Film Works Presents “Dirty Dishes”
Posted by Ashley Wood in School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, Student Experience, Students, Video on May 10, 2012
Tufts Film Works is Tufts’ local resource for student films on campus. Between sponsoring the re-occurring ExCollege class Making Movies, as well as providing students with the equipment for filming, the program is the ultimate resource on campus for aspiring actors, screenwriters, producers, and directors. Recently, students from this semester’s Making Movies class with Professor Don Schechter put together a short film as part of their assignment. In the words of co-director Kaveh Veyssi, A14:
The focus was to be able to tell a story through all the elements of film: lighting, editing, sound, music, acting (body language and eyes), mise en scéne, etc. The four of us were put together and given three weeks to write, cast, produce, direct this short film. We were trying to tell a story without any dialogue, so we tried using sound and music to our advantage more than anything because as we’ve learned in the class, quite often sound is more important in the telling of a story than dialogue or the visual aspect of a film.
See the result below:
Finding Parkour in Cairo
Posted by Katherine McManus in Alumni, Blogs, International, School of Arts and Sciences, Video on May 9, 2012
Tufts alumnus Ben Gittleson, A11, has found something neat in Cairo. In the Egyptian capital, where political change has made life unpredictable, Parkour has gained popularity.
Ben, former Editor in Chief of the Tufts Daily, documented this discovery in a video and article that was recently featured on ESPN’s Page 2 website.
Cairo might seem like an unlikely place for parkour to take root. The free-spirited sport with French roots — in which athletes navigate urban environments with acrobatic techniques — does not necessarily mesh with Egyptian society’s conservative norms.
But it does provide an outlet for young Cairenes to get out their energy amid the pressures of life in the Egyptian capital. Endless traffic jams, suffocating pollution, and a dearth of public parks makes exercising difficult, and parkour is these youths’ answer to the constant stress.
Check out Ben’s video and the daring young Egyptians’ moves:
For more of Ben Gittleson’s journalistic work from Cairo, check out his website or blog.
Tufts2012.com
Posted by Kimberly Moniz in Alumni, International, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, Student Experience, Students, Web on May 8, 2012
Ammar Khaku, E12, wanted to find a way to visually represent where his classmates would be after graduation. When he couldn’t find a tool that did that well, he decided to build Tufts2012.com. He says, “The concept started off as a simple map with markers, but I added more features before it launched.”
He hopes that the site will be a resource for members of the class of 2012 to find other people in their area, and will create an interesting accumulation of statistics about the class. In the future, he plans to add optional information about what company people are working for or what they’re doing in the area, as well as restricting access to Tufts students and alumni. If the site takes off, he has even more plans including possible LinkedIn integration. He says, “I’m also taking feature requests, so let me know if there’s something you think would be cool!”
As for Ammar, his pin on the map is placed in Redwood City, California, where he’ll be working at Evernote next year.
From a Dream to Reality: The Tufts Education Society
Posted by Katherine McManus in Active Citizenship, Photos, School of Arts and Sciences, Student Experience, Students, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Video on May 7, 2012
Watch and listen as Ryan Clapp’s dream of an organization at Tufts focused on public education, discussions, educational networking and education advocacy becomes a reality! During his time at Tufts, Ryan worked hard to create the Tufts Education Society to bring together students interested in education, and to maximize the opportunities and resources Tufts already had, while establishing new ones.
See how the Tufts Education Society grew from one student’s idea to an officially recognized student group on campus:
A Campaign for Tufts
Posted by Katherine McManus in Active Citizenship, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering, Student Experience, Students, Video on May 4, 2012
If you were on campus recently, you couldn’t miss the campaign for TCU President. Behind the chalking around campus, the Facebook groups, websites and t-shirts were a lot of great ideas to address issues that Tufts students face. Candidates Wyatt Cadley (’13) and Logan Cotton (’13) stirred up discussion on a variety of topics.
At the second of two TCU Presidential debates run by the Tufts Elections Commission, their passion for Tufts truly shined! Check out this video, compiled by TUTV to highlight the two candidates.
In the election on Tuesday April 24th, Wyatt Cadley won the race, and will assume the role of TCU President for next year. Both candidates built strong campaign teams and successfully engaged voters, with 49.76% of voters turning out – an increase of 1,000 voters from last year!