BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, November 30, 2023 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that EmacsConf will join the Working Together for Free Software Fund. The one and only conference dedicated to the joy of Emacs is joining just before their event on December 2 and 3, 2023.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented individual, if possible Boston-based, to be our full-time outreach and communications coordinator.

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How can machine learning help individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D)? This is what a study presented at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European As

How can the metal content of stars influence the formation of Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hope

How can oceanic microbes help produce antibiotics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of researchers

How can machine learning help individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D)? This is what a study presented at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European As

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Researchers went 'bioprospecting' in marine microbes, looking for those that can perform helpful functions like eating plastic or generating antibiotics.

Organizer: Government Finance Officers Association of British Columbia
Location: Vancouver

Organizer: North Central Local Government Association
Location: Prince George

Dec 10, 2024, 12pm EST

In today's fast-paced world, a good night's sleep is often the first thing to go. In this webinar, you will learn the science and benefits behind sleep, effects of sleep deprivation, and an understanding of sleep cycles. We will also discuss the relationship between your body's two clocks: circadian rhythm and sleep/wake homeostasis. Most importantly, we will cover what causes sleep deprivation and what you can do to prevent it and remedy it.

Open to Public: No
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Staff
Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Health/Wellness
Event Sponsor: Tufts University
Event Sponsor Details: Tufts University Human Resources
Event Contact Name: Tufts University Human Resources
RSVP Information: Register online at us06web.zoom.us…
More info: my.kgalifeservices.com…

Feb 20, 2025, 11am EST

The Tufts CSDD postgraduate course in clinical pharmacology, drug development, and regulation is the longest-running professional development program in the biopharma space. Now in its 52nd year, this unique annual course prepares both new and experienced drug developers, regulators, policy makers, clinical investigators, and academic researchers for success in the life sciences sector. Thousands of drug development professionals are alumni of this prestigious one-of-a-kind program. Top speakers from industry, academia, and the FDA share their expertise to create a highly stimulating and rewarding learning environment.

Location Details: Virtual event via Zoom
Open to Public: No
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Staff, Students (Graduate)
Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium, Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Career Development, Health/Wellness, Innovation, Medicine, Science
Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
Event Contact Name: Sarah Wrobel
Event Contact Email: sarah.wrobel@tufts.edu
RSVP Information: secure.touchnet.net…
More info: csdd.tufts.edu…

Feb 13, 2025, 11am EST

The Tufts CSDD postgraduate course in clinical pharmacology, drug development, and regulation is the longest-running professional development program in the biopharma space. Now in its 52nd year, this unique annual course prepares both new and experienced drug developers, regulators, policy makers, clinical investigators, and academic researchers for success in the life sciences sector. Thousands of drug development professionals are alumni of this prestigious one-of-a-kind program. Top speakers from industry, academia, and the FDA share their expertise to create a highly stimulating and rewarding learning environment.

Location Details: Virtual event via Zoom
Open to Public: No
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Staff, Students (Graduate)
Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium, Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Career Development, Health/Wellness, Innovation, Medicine, Science
Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
Event Contact Name: Sarah Wrobel
Event Contact Email: sarah.wrobel@tufts.edu
RSVP Information: secure.touchnet.net…
More info: csdd.tufts.edu…

Feb 6, 2025, 11am EST

The Tufts CSDD postgraduate course in clinical pharmacology, drug development, and regulation is the longest-running professional development program in the biopharma space. Now in its 52nd year, this unique annual course prepares both new and experienced drug developers, regulators, policy makers, clinical investigators, and academic researchers for success in the life sciences sector. Thousands of drug development professionals are alumni of this prestigious one-of-a-kind program. Top speakers from industry, academia, and the FDA share their expertise to create a highly stimulating and rewarding learning environment.

Location Details: Virtual event via Zoom
Open to Public: No
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Staff, Students (Graduate)
Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium, Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Career Development, Health/Wellness, Innovation, Medicine, Science
Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
Event Contact Name: Sarah Wrobel
Event Contact Email: sarah.wrobel@tufts.edu
RSVP Information: secure.touchnet.net…
More info: csdd.tufts.edu…

Jan 30, 2025, 11am EST

The Tufts CSDD postgraduate course in clinical pharmacology, drug development, and regulation is the longest-running professional development program in the biopharma space. Now in its 52nd year, this unique annual course prepares both new and experienced drug developers, regulators, policy makers, clinical investigators, and academic researchers for success in the life sciences sector. Thousands of drug development professionals are alumni of this prestigious one-of-a-kind program. Top speakers from industry, academia, and the FDA share their expertise to create a highly stimulating and rewarding learning environment.

Location Details: Virtual event via Zoom
Open to Public: No
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Staff, Students (Graduate)
Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium, Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Career Development, Health/Wellness, Innovation, Medicine, Science
Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
Event Contact Name: Sarah Wrobel
Event Contact Email: sarah.wrobel@tufts.edu
RSVP Information: secure.touchnet.net…
More info: csdd.tufts.edu…

Nov 25, 2024, 12pm EST

You are invited to the Environmental Studies Fall Internship Symposium event to explore a variety of internships in environmental fields and to support our environmental science students. There will be student presenters speaking on their various internship experiences from companies and organizations they have interned at over the summer.

Building: Alumnae Hall
Campus Location: Medford/Somerville campus
City: Medford, MA 02155
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus
Location Details: Alumnae Lounge (40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA 02155)
Open to Public: Yes
Primary Audience(s): Alumni and Friends, Faculty, Staff, Students (Graduate), Students (Undergraduate)
Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium
Event Sponsor Details: Environmental Studies Program
Event Contact Name: Sinet Kroch
Event Contact Email: sinet.kroch@tufts.edu
More info: sites.tufts.edu…

Nov 22, 2024, 12pm EST

Tufts Composers present new vocal settings suggested by T.J. Anderson's 2022 Three Songs of Life, offered alongside songs, settings, and instrumentals by Julia Cavallaro, Duke Ellington, Eliza Howells, Matthew Seliger, Melinda Tian, Angela Tsou, Christopher Walton, and guest composer and Tufts alum Trevor Weston. Featuring soprano Janet Stone, mezzo sopranos Julia Cavallaro and Eliza Howells, pianist John McDonald, and bassoonist Angela Tsou.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center
Campus Location: Medford/Somerville campus
City: Medford, MA 02155
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus
Location Details: Distler Performance Hall
Wheelchair Accessible (for in-person events): Yes
Open to Public: Yes
Event Type: Performance
Subject: Music
Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences
Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Music
Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis
Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu
Event Contact Phone: 6176272253
Event Admission: free; no tickets required
More info: as.tufts.edu…

Nov 21, 2024, 6pm EST

Election 2024 is over... what now? Join a panel conversation with Tufts faculty exploring how the election results might affect domestic and international politics, including key policy issues. Food provided!

No RSVP necessary, and all are welcome.

Building: Dowling Hall
Campus Location: Medford/Somerville campus
City: Medford, MA 02155
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus
Location Details: Dowling Hall 745
Wheelchair Accessible (for in-person events): Yes
Open to Public: Yes
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Staff, Students (Graduate), Students (Postdoctoral), Students (Undergraduate)
Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Elections, Politics/Policy/Law, Public Service/Government
Event Sponsor Details: Sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the International Relations Program, and Tisch College
RSVP Information: tischcollege.tufts.edu…
Event Admission: Free
More info: tischcollege.tufts.edu…

Nov 20, 2024, 6pm EST

A lecture and discussion with Mouin Rabbani, A86, previously senior analyst and special advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is co-editor of Jadaliyya Ezine. He has published and commented widely on Palestinian affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the contemporary Middle East.

Moderated by Negar Razavi, A06, currently an associate research scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University, where she is working on her first book manuscript on the role of policy experts in shaping U.S. security policies toward the Middle East, generally, and Iran, specifically. Broadly, Razavi’s work examines the intersections of state power, empire, security, foreign policy, expertise, and gender.

Building: Barnum Hall
Campus Location: Medford/Somerville campus
City: Medford, MA 02155
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus
Location Details: Room 104
Wheelchair Accessible (for in-person events): Yes
Open to Public: Yes
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Students (Graduate), Students (Undergraduate)
Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: International Affairs
Event Sponsor: Tisch College of Civic Life
Event Sponsor Details: IGL/Tisch
Event Contact Name: Heather Barry
Event Contact Email: heather.barry@tufts.edu
RSVP Information: None
Event Admission: Free

Nov 14, 2024, 6:30pm EST

The Center for Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) invites the Tufts community to join us on November 14 for a poetry reading with Daisy Atterbury and Adrienne Raphael, moderated by Professor Sarah Akant.

Daisy Atterbury is a poet, essayist and scholar. Daisy’s most recent book, The Kármán Line (2024), investigates queer life and fantasies of space and place with an interest in unraveling colonial narratives in the American Southwest.

Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them and the poetry collections Our Dark Academia and What Was It For. She teaches writing at CUNY Baruch and lives in Brooklyn.

All are welcome. Contact humanities@tufts.edu with questions.

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row
Campus Location: Medford/Somerville campus
City: Somerville, MA 02144
Campus: Medford/Somerville campus
Location Details: Conference Room
Open to Public: Yes
Primary Audience(s): Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, Staff, Students (Graduate), Students (Postdoctoral), Students (Undergraduate)
Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar/Talk
Subject: Humanities
Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences
Event Sponsor Details: Tufts University
Event Contact Name: Amanda Pepper
Event Contact Email: amanada.pepper@tufts.edu
Event Contact Phone: 2037639353
RSVP Information: No RSVP needed
Event Admission: Free
More info: humanities.tufts.edu…