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Resilient Despite Disaster
Astier Almedom, director of the International Resilience Program at Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership, says that understanding how people cope with calamities like the earthquake in Haiti might help alleviate suffering and speed recovery.
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Sports News: Hoops Split Against Amherst
The 10th-ranked women's basketball team fell to the top-ranked Amherst team, while the men's basketball squad scored an upset against the Lord Jeffs. Read more on the Tufts Athletics website.
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Lawrence S. Bacow to Step Down from Tufts Presidency in 2011
Lawrence S. Bacow, who has advanced Tufts University's leadership in teaching, research and public service while championing access to higher education, announced at the Feb. 5-6 meeting of the university's board of trustees that he would step down in June 2011.
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Tropical, and Topical
Students in Professor Colin Orians' Tropical Ecology and Conservation class blogged, tweeted and posted pictures from their winter break field experience in Costa Rica.
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To Haiti with Love: A Benefit Concert from Tufts
Feb. 14, 1PM Featuring the Third Day Gospel Choir, ENVY All Female Step Team, Music Department performance faculty, Agbekor Society, Jackson Jills, Beelzebubs and more. Tickets are $10, with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders.
10th Annual Native American Speaker Series
Feb. 8, 7PM This event presents music group Ulali, featuring Jennifer Kreisberg (Tuscarora), Soni Moreno (Apache, Mayan, Yaqui), and Ata Papa (Tainui iwi).
Friends of Tisch Library Author Talk by Associate Professor Barbara Grossman
Feb. 10, 3:30-5PM Grossman, chair of the Drama and Dance Department, is author of A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage.
Department of Drama and Dance presents "Hedda Gabler"
Feb. 18-20 and 25-27, 8PM Play by Henrik Ibsen. Adapted by Christopher Shinn and directed by Drama Lecturer Sheriden Thomas
Africana Center 40th Anniversary
Feb. 20 The Africana Center at Tufts will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a gala dinner under the theme: "Our Past, Our Future: Honoring Forty Years of Leadership & Service." Latoyia Edwards, NECN reporter and morning weekend anchor, will be the special guest host.
The Evolution of Black Dance: A Lecture-Demonstration by Germaul Barnes
Feb. 23, 8PM Germaul Barnes, past winner of the Bessie Award for dance performer of the year, will focus on pioneers of black dance who have influenced him, including Katherine Dunham, Eleo Pomare and Bill T. Jones.
Engineering Dean's Lecture: Dr. Robert Metcalfe
Feb. 25, 3PM Dr. Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and partner at Polaris Venture Partners, will speak about how lessons learned from the development of the Internet can help meet the pressing global need for cheap and clean energy.
Tisch College Presidential Symposium
Feb. 26, 8:30AM This year's symposium will focus on the value of community-engaged research for communities as well as for researchers.
Inside the Activist's Study
Mar. 9, 7PM Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now," and investigative journalist David Goodman will discuss how the promise of media can influence social change.
On-the-Job Training in the Turbulent Middle East: Assessing Obama's First Year
Mar. 10, 5:30PM Talk by Fares Center Visiting Scholar Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, and editor-at-large of The Daily Star, Beirut.
Questions Without Answers: A Photographic Prism, 1985-2010
Jan. 21-Apr. 4 The Tufts Art Gallery, Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership, and VII Photo Agency proudly present photographs of compelling events of the post-Cold War world, from the Balkans to the Congo, Afghanistan to Chechnya. more events
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