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4 days ago · By Zoe Herrmann | October 3. The Tufts Department of Computer Science has announced a major change in its curriculum, with the introductory course “Introduction to Computer Science”—or CS11—now requiring students to have prior coding experience before enrolling. The addition of a prerequisite will be implemented starting in spring 2025.
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6 days ago · Dr. Jan Pechenik, professor emeritus of marine biology at Tufts University, suspects that one group of organisms is going to outlast many others: intertidal marine animals. They endure extreme fluctuations in their environment, particularly temperature changes, better than many others. Science. US healthcare regression: Syphilis on the rise.
Rooted Reflections: What Tufts isn’t teaching (and what it should)
2 days ago · Published Thursday, October 17, 2024. Every Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., I lead groups of prospective students around Tufts as a tour guide. Last week, I was asked “If you ran Tufts, what would you change?”. At the time, I responded with a surface-level answer: streamlining class schedules. Yet this question sat with me throughout the rest of the ...
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University Tufts Dining implements new changes, including 'late lunch' period and pledge to increase food diversity By Lucas Frota | September 26 Tufts Dining has introduced a slew of changes for the school year, including a new “late lunch” period from 2 p.m.–5 p.m., a pledge to increase food diversity and updates to the meal plans …
Tufts drops to 40th place on U.S. News list; 287th in WSJ ranking
Sep 29, 2023 · Tufts dropped from 32 to 40 on the US News and World Report’s list of the best universities in America and ranked 287th out of 400 on the Wall Street Journal’s list earlier this month. Both publications tailored their algorithms this year to focus on alumni outcomes, analyzing metrics like graduation rates and graduates’ salaries when compiling their rankings.
University officials ‘very strongly encourage’ students to receive ...
Dec 13, 2021 · COVID-19 vaccine boosters will be strongly recommended — but not yet required — for students across Tufts’ campuses, university officials told the Daily last week. Testing frequency and pandemic protocols are also currently expected to remain unchanged going into the Spring semester.
Amid return of students to campus, university navigates uncertain …
Jan 31, 2022 · As thousands of Tufts students returned to campus for the spring semester, just weeks after COVID-19 case counts broke records nationwide, the university tried to provide clarity regarding COVID-19 conditions on campus.Amid the uncertainty, changing course modalities and hundreds of students starting their semesters in isolation or quarantine, community members have attempted to anticipate and ...
Tufts’ cost of attendance reaches record-breaking $92,167 for …
Apr 11, 2024 · The independent student newspaper of Tufts University. Universities with smaller endowments — including Tufts — must provide more financial aid from their own budgets. “We have to fund financial aid … as opposed to universities with bigger endowments that can fund financial aid much more from their endowment,” Forbes explained.
Tufts as an Anti-Racist Institution, Part 1: Students, administrators ...
Nov 19, 2021 · Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series on the anti-racist initiative at Tufts. The next part of the series will be published on Monday, Nov. 22. “ Tufts as an Anti-Racist Institution, ” a university-wide initiative, was first announced by University President Anthony Monaco on July 8, 2020, with a goal to “find and eradicate any structural racism at …