JUMBO DIGEST | April 14, 2024 | STUDENT LIFE EVENTS

Hello Jumbos!

Enjoy your day off on Monday (and Wednesday) as we celebrate Patriots' Day and cheer on the Tufts Marathon Team in the Boston Marathon! Here's what's coming up.

Just Dance Event | 4 p.m. | Alumnae Lounge

Bilingual Mass | 5 p.m. | Goddard Chapel

Chinese Students Association (CSA) Culture Show | 5:30 p.m. | 51 Winthrop

Patriots' Day observed (University holiday), no classes

Fly Together Fitness Pole Panel | 7 p.m. | Bromfield-Pearson Hall Room 006

Student Dining Worker Appreciation Mixer | 8 p.m. | Campus Center Room 207

Fall 2024 registration starts for AS&E (including SMFA and NEC) rising sophomores and continuing first-year students in SIS

Project SHARE Women's Health: Menstrual Product Drive and Raffle | 12 noon | Mayer Campus Center Second Floor

Know Before U Go (KBUG): First and Abroad with Tufts Global Education | 5:30 p.m. | Dowling Hall Room 745A, see featured events

Bridging Communities | 6 p.m. | Tisch Library Room 224 DSDI Research Hub

Independent Summer Study Abroad Information Session | 6:30 p.m. | Virtual, see featured events

Professor Panel | 6:30 p.m. | Paige Hall Room 010 Terrace Room

Senior Social | 7 p.m. | Asian American Center First Floor

Survivor Space | 7 p.m. | DM/email for specific location

Make‐up day (no classes held)

Second-session courses only: Last day for undergraduate AS&E Students to WITHDRAW from courses and receive a grade of W

Second-session courses only: Last day for undergraduates to Select PASS/FAIL Option

BEaChES Blood Drive | 8 a.m. | Science and Technology Center, see featured events

Green Dot Day | 12 noon | Campus Center, Joyce Cummings Center, SEC, Residential Quad, and President's Lawn, see featured events

Multifaith Gathering for Peace | 12:15 p.m. | Goddard Chapel

Tufts Student Giving (TSG) Tabling – Tufts Diabetes Link | 1 p.m. | Campus Center

Beyond No: Building Resilience | 1 p.m. | SEC Atrium

LinkedIn Headshots | 1 p.m. | President's Lawn

Tufts for Health Equity (THE) Tabling | 1 p.m. | Campus Center

Flowers and Friends: Bouquet-Making! | 3 p.m. | President's Lawn (rain/cold weather location: Campus Center Room 220)

Unlearning Retreat, There's No Time: Let Us Make Sanctuary | 4:30 p.m. | Interfaith Center, see featured events

Gather and Listen: Civic Stories at Tufts and Beyond | 5 p.m. | East Hall Lounge, see featured events

Tufts Table | 6 p.m. | Joyce Cummings Center Ballroom, see featured events

Sheltering Voices: A Panel on Housing Insecurity | 6 p.m. | Barnum Hall Auditorium 008

We're Diplomats: Ask Us Anything Q&A | 6:30 p.m. | Virtual, see featured events

Tufts Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (THFES) Alumni Dinner x Career Panel | 6:30 p.m. | SEC Atrium

Caribbean Student Organization (CSO) Jeopardy Night | 7 p.m. | Pearson Hall Room 106

Jumbo Fire and Flow Jam | 7 p.m. | Residential Quad

Arab Student Association (ASA) x MERG Workshop on Sudan and Palestine | 8 p.m. | Cabot Center Room 703

Friendship and Friction in the Fight for Our Energy Future | 12 noon | Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room and virtual, see featured events

Girl Gains Bake Sale | 12 noon | Mayer Campus Center

TSG Tabling – Tufts NSBE | 1 p.m. | Campus Center

Chuckleducks Fundraising | 3 p.m. | Campus Center Table 5

BEaChES Study Session | 3 p.m. | Science and Technology Center Room 124

Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Student/Faculty Appreciation Dinner | 5 p.m. | Aidekman Arts Center Remis Sculpture Court

Vocation: Life-Affirming Work Conversation | 6 p.m. | Balch Arena Theater, see featured events

GE Aerospace x Society of Latinx Engineers and Scientists (SOLES) | 6 p.m. | SEC Auditorium 253

The Asian American Center (AAC) Mini Short Film Festival | 7 p.m. | Asian American Center Mural Room

Caribbean Student Organization (CSO) x PAA Jamaica for Sale Screening | 7 p.m. | Tisch Library Room 304

Pippin | 7:30 p.m. | 51 Winthrop

Enchanted Presents: And You're Watching Disney Channel! | 8 p.m. | Goddard Chapel

Habitat for Humanity Bake Sale | 10 a.m. | Mayer Campus Center

Dharma Dialogue with Buddhist Mindfulness Sangha | 12 noon | Goddard Chapel

Muslim Students Association, Jummah Prayer | 1 p.m. | Interfaith Center

Fall Undergraduate Poster Session | 1 p.m. | Pearson Chemistry Laboratory

CSO Cookout | 1 p.m. | Residential Quad

Chi Omega x KAO DEI Event | 3 p.m. | Barnum Hall Room 104 (Auditorium)

Freshman Event | 3 p.m. | Asian American Center Mango Room

Meet the Neos | 3 p.m. | Curtis Hall Multlipurpose Room

Robotics Club Battlebots Competition | 4:30 p.m. | SEC Research Patio

Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Speaker Series – Dr. Jeff Borenstein (Draper Laboratory) | 5 p.m. | SEC Anderson Room 112 Nelson Auditorium

NeuroNetwork Spring Open House – See Memory | 5 p.m. | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Medical Education Building Room 114, Boston

PERIOD Carnival | 5 p.m. | Mayer Campus Center Room 012

Arab Conference at Harvard 2024 | 5:29 p.m. | Harvard Yard, Cambridge

Thai Students' Association (TSA) Thai Night | 6 p.m. | Paige Hall 113 Crane Room

Harlem Grooves Spring Showcase | 7 p.m. | Cohen Auditorium

JNL x Chi Omega | 7:59 p.m. | Barnum Hall LL008

Spring Thing | 8 p.m. | Sophia Gordon Hall

Shir Appeal Spring Show | 8:30 p.m. | Curtis Hall Room 101

Listening Project Pop-Up Session | 10:30 p.m. | 574 Boston Ave. Room 402

Annual Muslim Students Association (MSA) Senior Dinner | 6:30 p.m. | Cummings Center Ballroom

Pre-Veterinary Society x Animal Aid Mental Health Event | 1:59 p.m. | Barnum Hall Room 208 and President's Lawn

Meet the Organ | 2 and 3 p.m. | Goddard Chapel, see featured events

Cultural Resistance through Food with Reem Assil | 3 p.m. | Barnum Hall Room 104

If you are first-generation and/or low-income, join the FIRST Center and the Tufts Global Education team on Tuesday, April 16, at 5:30–6:30 p.m. in Dowling Hall Room 745A to learn more about studying abroad on financial aid. Dinner will be provided!

Students interested in or planning to go abroad over the summer are encouraged to join us for this session. International independent summer study abroad programs and internships must be registered with Tufts Global Education, and this presentation will review helpful academic policies and topics students should be aware of before, during, and after their summer abroad. Join us on Tuesday, April 16, at 6:30–7:30 p.m. via Zoom to learn more! This session will be recorded.

Tufts BEaChES (Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering Society) and Boston Children's Hospital are hosting a blood drive at the Science and Technology Center (4 Colby Street) on Wednesday, April 17.

Green Dot Day is a day dedicated to building the large-scale social movement on our campus to prevent sexual misconduct. Events include tabling at five locations (Campus Center, Cummings Center, SEC) at 12 noon–2 p.m.; a bubble soccer tournament with food truck on the Residential Quad at 2:30–5 p.m.; and the GD dedicated softball game at 5 p.m. Dining Services and The Sink will be serving a variety of green treats; the Campus Center lobby and President's Lawn will feature green lights. Join us to raise awareness and commit to prevention by wearing green on April 17.

The Unlearning Retreat is a space to let go of what no longer serves us. On Wednesday, April 17, at 4:30–7:30 p.m. at the Interfaith Center on 58 Winthrop Street, undergraduate and graduate students (especially those who identify as BIPOC) are invited to engage with the work of Báyò Akómoláfé over dinner. Discover sanctuary not as mere protection but as a courageous embrace of loss and a celebration of the possibilities within us all. You can contact Humanist Chaplain Anthony Cruz Pantojas for more information; please RSVP by April 16.

Gio, Ilisa, and Luke, seniors in the Tisch Scholars Program, invite you to "Gather and Listen: Civic Stories at Tufts and Beyond" on Wednesday, April 17, at 5–7 p.m. in East Hall Lounge. This event aims to unite Tisch College's community for a night of dialogue on civic education/engagement, fostering a just future. It will feature an introductory presentation and breakout discussions. RSVP is required due to limited capacity. Join us for a meaningful conversation on shaping civic pathways.

This community dinner on Wednesday, April 17, at 6–8 p.m. in Joyce Cummings Center Ballroom is free and open to students, faculty, and staff from across all four campuses (Boston health sciences, Grafton, Medford/Somerville, and SMFA). The theme for this event is The Power of Co-Generation.

Are you curious about the life and career of a U.S. Diplomat? On Wednesday, April 17, at 6:30–7:30 p.m., join this Q&A virtual session with two Diplomatic Officers who will share how they navigated a Foreign Service career and answer your questions.

Join us on Thursday, April 18, at 12 noon to welcome Eve Driver, author of What We Can't Burn, to the Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture Series. Her lecture will highlight the ways we talk about the energy transition and the power of the liberal arts campus in bridging different perspectives. All of our speakers are in person. This talk will be livestreamed and recorded.

The University Chaplaincy, Career Center, Academic Advising, the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion, and Global Education are excited to welcome the Tufts community to a showcase featuring students, faculty and staff who will join us in engaging our new working definition of vocation as life-affirming work. Join us on Thursday, April 18, at 6–7:15 p.m. in Balch Arena Theater for an interactive and creative conversation and add your wisdom and insight to this process!

Ever wonder about the Goddard Chapel organ? Want to know what a pipe and a stop are? Want to hear a demonstration? Come join the University Chaplaincy Music Director Suzie Cartreine on Sunday, April 21, at 2–2:30 or 3–3:30 p.m. and meet the organ! Suzie will introduce fun facts, play for the audience, and let you get up close to this 141-year-old instrument. No RSVP necessary; all are welcome.

Students and Student Organizations can submit events to JumboLife! Add your event by Thursday at 12 noon each week, and we'll include it in the Jumbo Digest on Sunday.

Drop-in Advising: The A&S and Engineering Senior Academic Advisors are available to answer your advising questions. Visit Engineering or Arts & Sciences drop-in advising this week!

Celebrate #TuftsEarthMonth2024 by entering the Office of Sustainability's Instagram giveaway for a chance to win one of three awesome eco prizes. You must be a current Tufts student, staff, or faculty to enter. The contest ends April 22 at 11:59 pm.