JUMBO DIGEST | January 28, 2024 | STUDENT LIFE EVENTS

Hello Jumbos!

This week, we will enter February and the start of Black Legacy Month. Here's what's coming up.

Catholic Mass | 5 p.m. | Goddard Chapel

Protestant Evening Worship | 7 p.m. | Goddard Chapel

TFL Comedy General Information Meeting | 7 p.m. | Barnum Hall LL008

Tutors For Hope General Interest Meeting (GIM) | 7:30 p.m. | Campus Center Room 220

Pre-Veterinary Society GIM | 8 p.m. | Tisch Library Room 316

Midday Mindfulness with Buddhist Mindfulness Sangha | 12 noon | Interfaith Center

Writing a Personal Statement | 12 noon | Dowling Hall Milmore Room, see featured events

Writing Fellows Hiring Information Session | 12 noon | Mayer Campus Center Room 012, see featured events

Back on the Hill: Transitioning Back to Tufts | 12 noon | Dowling Hall Room 745A, see featured events

Hate and Free Speech (Dialogue and Action in an Age of Divides) | 4:30 p.m. | Alumnae Lounge, see featured events

Tufts Global Education: External Programs Advising Hours | 5 p.m. | Virtual, see featured events

Yoga Flow with Elizabeth Merryweather | 5:30 p.m. | Hill Hall Aerobics Room

Tufts Effective Altruism General Interest Meeting | 7 p.m. | Goddard Hall 310 Crowe Room (in Fletcher)

Project SHARE Health Outreach Commitee 1 | 7:30 p.m. | Mayer Campus Center Room 203

Brain Exercise Initiative Spring GIM | 8 p.m. | Cummings Center Room 180

How to Be HFE/ENP at Tufts! | 8 p.m. | SEC Room 306

Project SHARE Resource Development Committee Meeting | 8 p.m. | Campus Center Room 220

Tufts Real Estate Society (TRES) Weekly Meeting | 8 p.m. | Mayer Campus Center Room 219

Managing Your Stress by Managing Your Time | 3:30 p.m. | Dowling Hall Room 745A, see featured events

Yoga Flow with Lily Loventhal | 5:30 p.m. | Hill Hall Aerobics Room

National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Second Semster GIM | 7:30 p.m. | SEC Room 253

Tufts Daily GIM | 8 p.m. | Joyce Cummings Center Room 270

Peer Tutor Hiring Information Session | 12 noon | Austin Conference Room (Tisch Library Room 226), see featured events

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

Yoga Flow with Maddie Ford | 3 p.m. | Hill Hall Aerobics Room

Art Show Opening and Logo Launch Party | 5:30 p.m. | Asian American Center

Health Outreach Committee 2 | 5:45 p.m. | Campus Center Room 203

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration with the Africana Center, Tisch College and University Chaplaincy | 6 p.m. | Breed Memorial Hall

Dance-Fit with Andres Antonio | 6:30 p.m. | Hill Hall Aerobics Room

Weekly Meditation with the Buddhist Mindfulness Sangha | 7 p.m. | Goddard Chapel

Black Students in Computer Science (BSCS) GIM | 7:30 p.m. | SEC Room 112

Pole Dance Collective (PDC) Spring GIM | 8 p.m. | Cummings Center Room 270

Project SHARE Civic Advocacy Committee Meeting | 8 p.m. | Campus Center Room 203

FIRST Asians | 8 p.m. | FIRST Center 3rd Floor

Trace Fossils with Tufts University Geological Society (TUGS) | 8 p.m. | Lane Hall Room 007

Cheese Tasting | 9 p.m. | Cummings Center Room 170

Education Abroad Application Deadline, see announcements and updates

Tufts at the Energy Transition | 12 noon | Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room and virtual, see featured events

Working for Department of State: Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) and Internships | 12 noon | Dowling Hall Milmore Room, see featured events

Total Body Strength Circuit with Elitsa Ilieva | 12 noon | Hill Hall Aerobics Room

Tufts Student Giving Tabling | 12 noon | Campus Center

Biotech and Life Sciences Virtual Career Fair | 1 p.m. | Virtual, see featured events

Exhibition Reception at SMFA at Tufts | 6 p.m. | SMFA Boston campus, see featured events

Yoga Flow with Elizabeth Merryweather | 6 p.m. | Hill Hall Aerobics Room

Tufts' Quadball Beginner Practice | 7 p.m. | Fletcher Field

Society of Latinx Engineers and Scientists (SOLES) x CEEO Event! | 8 p.m. | SEC Anderson 212

Hour of Afrobeats with Zora Dyer | 10:30 a.m. | Hill Hall Aerobics Room

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

Christian Walker’s Photographic Legacy: A Panel with Dr. Deborah Willis | 12 noon | Anderson Auditorium, SMFA at Tufts, see featured events

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

Korean Student Association (KSA) x TASA Nightmarket | 4 p.m. | Alumnae Lounge

Typing Speed Competition | 4 p.m. | East Hall Room 016

Tufts Youth Philharmonic Benefit Concert | 6:30 p.m. | Granoff Music Center Distler Performance Hall, see featured events

Karaoke | 9 p.m. | Hotung Cafe

NAQT SCT | 8 a.m. | Yale University

Black Student Union (BSU) Ivory on Ebony Gala | 6 p.m. | 51 Winthrop St.

First-Year and M&M Bonding at Boda Borg! | 2 p.m. | Boda Borg, Malden

Sunday Concert Series – Beethoven, Brahms and More! | 3 p.m. | Granoff Music Center Distler Performance Hall, see featured events

The StAAR Center has great academic success and writing workshops this week! Join us for "Writing a Personal Statement" on Monday, January 29, at 12 noon–1 p.m. in the Dowling Hall Milmore Room and "Managing Your Stress by Managing Your Time" on Tuesday, January 30, at 3:30–4:30 p.m. in Dowling Hall Room 745A. Also, back this week is "Senior Writers Accountability Group Write-In" at 10 a.m.–1 p.m. in Tisch Library Room 223.

Returning from your study abroad journey can be just as much of an adjustment as preparing to go abroad. Join Tufts Global Education and the Counseling Center's own Dr. Xi Bi on Monday, January 29, at 12 noon–1 p.m. in Dowling Hall Room 745A to learn more about transitioning back to life at Tufts. Lunch will be served!

The StAAR Center is hiring Writing Fellows. If you are interested in applying, attend an information session to learn about the program, hear from current Writing Fellows, and get your questions answered. For more information about the position and to access the application, visit our Work with the StAAR Center page.

Information session dates:

All students are invited to watch a panel series on Hate and Free Speech on Monday, January 29, at 4:30–7:30 p.m. in Alumnae Lounge. The moderator and four panelists will discuss the significance of free speech and its limitations in the context of controversies over the ways in which speech can relate to antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other identity-based racisms. View the event livestream, and join Tufts students, faculty, and staff for dinner conversation.

Sign up or drop by virtually to ask our External Programs staff your questions about applying to an external program by the February 1 deadline, getting transfer courses approved, and more. Virtual Advising Hours will be held on Monday, January 29, at 5–6:30 p.m.

The StAAR Center is hiring Subject Tutors and On-Call Tutors! If you want to learn more, join us for an informational session on Wednesday, January 31, at 12 noon–1 p.m. in the Austin Conference Room (Tisch Library Room 226). This will be a great opportunity to hear from our current tutors about their experiences.

Environmental Studies is hosting Tufts' very own Chief Sustainability Officer, Dano Weisbord, A01, on Thursday, February 1, at 12 noon–1 p.m. as part of the Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Office of Sustainability. He works with senior leadership to further Tufts' commitment to be a higher education leader in sustainability. His talk will discuss Tufts University's need to transition away from using fossil fuels and ways we can support change in institutions and society.

If you want to become a Foreign Service Officer for the State Department, the FSOT is one of the first steps in your journey. Join Diplomat in Residence-New England Michelle Kayser on Thursday, February 1, at 12 noon to learn when and where you can take the FSOT, as well as how you can prepare. We'll also cover internship opportunities that open in February and the summer.

The Biotech and Life Sciences Career Fair (taking place virtually via Handshake on Thursday, February 1, at 1–4 p.m.) is your gateway to connect, network, and gain valuable insight from representatives from the biotech, health, and science industries. This event, a collaboration among Brandeis, Tufts, and BU, is an opportunity to learn about current internships and full-time roles.

Celebrate Tufts University Art Galleries' spring 2024 exhibitions at the SMFA Boston campus during a reception with food and drink on Thursday, February 1, at 6–8 p.m. On view beginning January 24, "Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant" surveys the work of artist, critic, and curator Christian Walker (1953–2003), and "As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston" explores the relationship among community photographic practices, queer nightlife, and gay liberation in Boston.

Join Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) at SMFA at Tufts on Friday, February 2, at 12 noon–1:30pm for a panel on Christian Walker featuring Dr. Deborah Willis. The discussion will focus on Walker's innovations in documentary and experimental photographic practices in Boston and Atlanta artistic circles, in addition to his activism and criticism addressing topics including queer public sex, interracial desire, and HIV/AIDS, censorship, drug use, and Blackness and whiteness in the visual field.

Friday, February 2, at 6:30 p.m.: Tufts Youth Philharmonic Benefit Concert

Members of TYP perform a concert to benefit their program. Suggested donation at the door: $10 per person/$25 per family

Sunday, February 4, at 3 p.m.: Sunday Concert Series – Beethoven, Brahms and more!

Violinist Sarita Uranovsky and pianist Hisako Hiratsuka perform an afternoon of music including sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms, along with Korngold's Suite "Much Ado about Nothing." Free; no tickets required

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.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Tufts Civic Engagement Ambassador Program provides opportunities for students to learn and practice civic engagement outside the classroom and implement it into the campus culture. This program is designed for all students who are eager to make a change on Tufts campus through events, resources, and the creation of opportunities for civic engagement! No background experience in civic engagement is required. Learn more and apply by January 31 at 11:59 p.m.

Submit your application to study abroad on a Tufts Program Abroad or an External Program for fall 2024, spring 2025, or academic year 2024–2025 by February 1. Applicants must have an active Intent to Study Abroad 2024–2025 on file.

If you're looking to meet new people, join Project Connect! Project Connect is a six-week, peer-led program that aims to help students meet each other, create meaningful connections, and feel like part of a community. Space is limited. Groups will begin meeting the week of February 4.

If you are you looking for an amazing student leadership opportunity, look no further because Pre-Orientation Leader applications are now LIVE. Scan the QR code on our flyer to apply! Applications are now open and will be closing on February 16.

Upcoming Major Declaration Deadlines

February 15 is the Major Declaration deadline for first-year Engineering students.

March 1 is the Major Declaration deadline for sophomore A&S students.

Are you still deciding on a major?

Are you interested in helping to combat housing insecurity? Do you love construction or manual labor for service? Do you want to help create affordable goods for the local community? Join the Tufts chapter of Habitat for Humanity by registering for the e-list to hear about fun, social, and civically engaged events such as Build Days (helping with house construction), ReStore Events (volunteering at a local thrift store), and fundraising and bonding events for a cause!