The Tufts Daily

The Tufts Daily, often referred to as The Daily by students, serves as the official student newspaper for Tufts University located in Medford, Massachusetts. It debuted its first issue on February 25, 1980. The publication focuses on a variety of topics, including news, arts, and sports, both within the campus and the broader Boston region. Additionally, it provides an opportunity for Tufts community members to contribute op-ed articles on various campus and global topics. Notably, Tufts holds the distinction of being the smallest college or university in the U.S. to publish a daily student newspaper.

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Daniel Vos reports on his time in News - The Tufts Daily

3 weeks ago | tuftsdaily.com | Shannon Murphy

Vos reflects on his experience in the Daily and the value of student journalism. Even before stepping foot on Tufts’ campus, Daniel Vos knew he wanted to be a part of the Daily. “I joined the Daily my [first-year] fall,” Vos said. “I was always interested in journalism in high school, but we didn’t really have a strong newspaper or journalism club, so that was an experience that I was really focused on getting in college.”Vos joined the News section and never looked back.
Nate Hall looks back on his Daily journey from copy editor to managing editor - The Tufts Daily

3 weeks ago | tuftsdaily.com | Jeremy Stern

Hall, a graduating senior majoring in history, is the Daily’s managing editor and a writer for the Arts section. Editor’s note: The Daily’s editorial department acknowledges that this article is premised on a conflict of interest. This article is a special feature for Commencement 2025 that does not represent the Daily’s standard journalistic practices.
Combining passions, degrees at SMFA and Tufts

3 weeks ago | tuftsdaily.com | Kaitlyn Wells

Part Jumbo, part Bessie: Combined-degree students reflect on the challenges and rewards of a five-year journey across art, academics and identity. A multimedia installation starring leafcutter ant patterns. Chinese Mexican identity explored through early 20th-century printmaking.
Seniors build their own academic tracks in interdisciplinary studies

3 weeks ago | tuftsdaily.com | Rachel Liu

Certain students in the Class of 2025 will be the first, and only, people to graduate from Tufts with their specific major. What do they all have in common? Well, on an official level, they’ll each receive a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, even though this one degree spans across and beyond the academic concentrations Tufts offers. This program lets students design their own major that bridges at least three fields of study, culminating in a senior thesis or project.
Jo Willman blends ballet, time in senior thesis ‘In Space and Time’

1 month ago | tuftsdaily.com | Matthew Winkler

Light splashes the vinyl floor of a ballet studio. Silhouettes of tree branches flicker in striated patterns as bodies pirouette, sway and plié atop the light and shadow in abstraction. The dancers’ faces are obscured as the movements of their legs and feet fill up the frame. A new composition forms as a vertical foot ‘en pointe’ freezes. The foot stands in graceful defiance of human anatomy, proudly facing the audience as if a painting to be admired.
Settling the Score

1 month ago | tuftsdaily.com | Matthew Winkler

As a child, Frank Lehman’s favorite gifts were tape cassettes of classical and film music.“Kid Stuff” was a standout. The tape compiled recordings of film composer John Williams leading the Boston Pops through film scores: “The Wizard of Oz,” “Pink Panther” and plenty of “Star Wars.” The young Lehman listened in a vacuum of innocence devoid of hierarchy: Williams’ villainous “Imperial March” from “Star Wars” stood as an equal to the symphonies of Antonín Dvořák in the ears of the second grader.
Coffee Table Socioeconomics: Final remarks - The Tufts Daily

1 month ago | tuftsdaily.com | Linda Huang

I’ve spent the past year being what my friends jokingly like to call a “professional hater,” writing columns where I rant about the bleak state of our world’s social and economic conditions, usually while drinking coffee, as my column name suggests. To be clear, there’s no shortage of issues worth addressing, and I can always think of more to critique. Maybe this makes me a cynic, a pessimist, a subscriber to realpolitik or all of the above. But beyond venting, I’ve come to realize that the true value lies in the process itself — the act of recognizing the significance, complexity and multidimensional nature of these problems. It has made me realize that — in a self-conceited way — the ability to critically think about social and economic issues is what’s the most important. That said, all I ask is for you to do three things.
Op-ed: Under attack from above and within

2 months ago | tuftsdaily.com | Neil Osborne

Museums, libraries and arts institutions that hold our living and breathing story as a nation are under attack. On March 27, President Donald Trump engaged in this attack by signing an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” These attacked organizations make up our cultural heritage like a patchwork quilt stitched together from diverse fabrics, each representing contributions from different communities.
Tufts’ offshore wind development programs react to presidential memorandum suspending leases

2 months ago | tuftsdaily.com | Shannon Murphy

Tufts will continue to be a leader in the offshore wind industry in the face of adversity from the federal government. A presidential memorandum signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 suspended the leasing and permitting of federal spaces for offshore wind development, rattling faculty and students in Tufts’ offshore wind energy engineering programs at the graduate level.
Career Center funds Jumbos’ unpaid internships

Feb 13, 2025 | tuftsdaily.com | Rachel Liu

The program permits students to explore nonprofit, entrepreneurial fields. Who pays for unpaid internships? Students certainly do, in the form of their labor. So does the Tufts Career Center — through its summer internship grant program. The $4,500 grant covers full-time internships at nonprofit, public and certain private-sector organizations.