The Medford branch of the Green Line Extension, which will terminate at the Tufts University station, is now slated to open December 12.

Sunil Kumar has been elected as the 14th president of Tufts and will assume office on July 1, 2023. Kumar, currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will be the first Asian American and the first person of color to assume the Tufts presidency.

Sunil Kumar has been elected as the 14th president of Tufts and will assume office on July 1, 2023. Kumar, currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will be the first Asian American and the first person of color to assume the Tufts presidency. 

This opinion piece references data from Tisch College’s CIRCLE on youth voting in the 2022 midterms, noting 65 percent supported Democratic House candidates.

This article highlights preliminary data from CIRCLE that shows 27 percent of youth voters turned out for the midterm elections, with that number rising to 31 percent in nine key states. A 2018 NSLVE campus voting data from IDHE is also included. CIRCLE Director Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and IDHE’s Nancy Thomas are both quoted.

Abby Kiesa, of Tisch College’s CIRCLE, is quoted about preliminary data from CIRCLE showing that 27 percent of youth voters turned out for the midterm elections, with that number rising to 31 percent in key states.

Tisch College closed its 2022 Solomont Speaker Series on Nov. 9 with a lecture by Sherrilyn Ifill, a preeminent civil rights lawyer. Ifill gave an overview of the state of American democracy and discussed the urgent need to fight for it.

An analysis of the 2018 midterms by CIRCLE found that young women turned out in greater numbers than young men, and that more of them voted for Democrats in that election.

This article cites CIRCLE early election data, "Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life, perhaps the most assiduous tracker of young voters, estimated on Thursday that 27 percent of 18-to-29 voters cast ballots in midterm elections — and that 63 percent of them voted for Democrats in House of Representatives elections."