Hello Jumbos!
Hope you enjoyed the beautiful autumn weather this weekend. Here's what's coming up in the week ahead.
| |
Monday, October 18
Tuesday, October 19
Wednesday, October 20
Thursday, October 21
Friday, October 22
Saturday, October 23
| |
Theme and Special Interest Housing Webinar
With housing applications opening soon, the Office of Residential Life and Learning is spreading the word about some of our great housing options for continuing students. Our theme and special interest housing is a great way to join a community on campus, add to ongoing events on campus, and more! Join us at one of the below listed dates to learn more about our theme, special interest, and create-your-own-theme housing options for the upcoming year.
Monday, October 18, 1 p.m. or 9 p.m.
Thursday, October 21, 3 p.m.
| |
Tisch College Solomont Speaker Series and Tufts School of Medicine Common Book Keynote: Isabel Wilkerson, Author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
On Monday, October 18, at 5:30 p.m., join a conversation with Isabel Wilkerson about her New York Times bestselling book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, this year's Common Book for the medical school. Caste explores how our lives are defined by unspoken systems of divisions, linking together case studies in America, India, and Nazi Germany and how those arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. Wilkerson is the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting.
| |
Brain Food
Brain Food is hosted by Tufts Psych Society and is a grab-and-go event where we'll provide snacks and an infographic of the benefits of eating these foods! Tuesday, October 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Upper Campus Center patio.
| |
Civic Life Lunch – King Boston: Building Boston's Beloved Community with Imari Paris Jeffries
On Thursday, October 21, at noon, join a conversation with activist, educator, and director of King Boston Imari Paris Jeffries. King Boston is a groundbreaking nonprofit organization working closely with the City of Boston and the Boston Foundation to create a living memorial and programing to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King. Under Paris Jeffries' leadership, King Boston has become a bold experiment aimed at continuing their work through a Center of Economic Justice, research, and innovative community programming.
| |
TFN Touchpoint with David Faber: What's a Corporation to Do? A CEO Perspective
We hope you will join the Tufts Financial Network (TFN) on Thursday, October 21, at 5 p.m. for the latest episode in our TFN Touchpoint webinar series. Learn how top CEOs are addressing some of the most complex challenges facing corporations today.
TFN Touchpoint is hosted by David Faber, A85, A24P. David is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, and co-anchor of CNBC's "Squawk on the Street."
Featured guests:
Kristin Peck, CEO, Zoetis
Vivek Shah, A94, CEO, Ziff Davis
Meg Whitman, Former President and CEO, eBay and Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Board Director, Procter & Gamble and General Motors
| |
Reminder: TUPD Arming Study Virtual Forums
The Working Group on Tufts University Police Department Arming is holding virtual forums for each campus facilitated by Margolis Healy Associates, a national leader in higher education safety and security. Your comments, suggestions and concerns are welcome as we gather the broadest, most diverse perspectives across Tufts. If you're unable to join the forum for your campus, please register for one that is more convenient.
| |
Submit an EventStudents and Student Organizations can submit events to JumboLife and we'll include them in the Jumbo Digest!
| |
| Announcements and Updates
| |
|
Academic Reminders
Major Exploration and Declaration Workshop
Monday, October 18, 3–4 p.m. on Zoom. Liberal Arts sophomores are invited to a Major Exploration and
Declaration Workshop with the advising deans. Learn more about: finding a major and major advisor, the
major declaration process and timeline, and getting started in advance to avoid a registration hold in the
spring. The workshop will be recorded for students unable to attend.
Reminder: the deadline to make-up Incompletes from Spring 2021 is Wednesday, October 20.
| |
|
|
|
