Tufts Events

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences TCO performs their fall concert under the direction of John Page.

Campus: Grafton campus Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Training/Workshop Event Subject: Health/Wellness Event Sponsor: Tufts University Event Sponsor Details: Office of Emergency Management RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.myabsorb.com/#/instructor-led-courses/aaa669c9-a508-45a6-9a40-091d3d58d08f/ This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED). This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.

Building: Goddard Chapel City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality Event Sponsor: Tufts University RSVP Information: Tufts University Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.

Building: Goddard Chapel City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: A reception in Eaton Hall 250 from 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. will follow the public lecture. All are welcome. Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: Tisch College of Civic Life Event Sponsor Details: Sponsored by the University Chaplaincy and Tisch College with support from the Asian American Center and the Experimental College. RSVP Information: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9LyJehcVTgyOxSu Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://chaplaincy.tufts.edu/russell-lecture/ Register (In-Person Only) Join this year's joint Russell Lecture and Solomont Speaker Series event with Tufts alumnus, Varun Soni, A96! Soni is the Dean of Religious and Spiritual life at the University of Southern California, where he also served as the inaugural vice provost of campus wellness and crisis intervention. He is the first and only Hindu in American history to serve as the chief spiritual leader of a college or university. Dean Soni previously taught civil rights and constitutional law at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A prolific public speaker and scholar of religions, Dean Soni is a national interfaith leader and advocate for religious reconciliation. Outside of his role as Dean, Soni serves as a senior advisor for Religion of Sports, a production company founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra, and he also advises the video game company Naughty Dog, where he contributed to the Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises. He's been a consultant for HBO, ESPN, Showtime, A&E, History Channel, Live Nation, and the Oprah Winfrey Network, and produced the graphic novel Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary. This event is jointly hosted by Tisch College's Solomont Speaker Series and by the University Chaplaincy's Russell Lecture, the oldest lectureship at Tufts University. It is cosponsored by the Asian American Center and Experimental College at Tufts. Registration required. A reception in Eaton 250 from 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. will follow the public lecture. All are welcome.  

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/96229275364?pwd=bYlRCPEs8kuOFqLKWhzovhFedxWDu9.1&from=addon Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/96229275364?pwd=bYlRCPEs8kuOFqLKWhzovhFedxWDu9.1&from=addon Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Education Event Sponsor Details: Tufts European Center Event Contact Name: Kimberlee DeCrescenzo Event Contact Email: kimberlee.decrescenzo@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3290 Link: https://europeancenter.tufts.edu/ Spend a summer in France! Join us to learn more about the 2026 Tufts in Talloires and Tufts in Annecy programs at the Tufts European Center in Talloires, France. No French required.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences The Genius of Josquin. EME explores Josquin’s secular songs and ingenious and beautiful mass movements based on them, as well as music of his contemporaries, including Mouton and Isaac. For violas da gamba, lute, sackbut, recorders, harp, flute, harpsichord, krummhorn, and voices. Jane Hershey, director

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Judaism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Celebrated 50 days after Yom Kippur, especially in Ethiopian Jewish communities. 

Campus: Boston SMFA campus Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Training/Workshop Event Subject: Health/Wellness Event Sponsor: Tufts University Event Sponsor Details: Office of Emergency Management RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.myabsorb.com/#/instructor-led-courses/aaa669c9-a508-45a6-9a40-091d3d58d08f/ This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED). This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/95122761558?pwd=z1zOug26VWYiJxu5EIUKO4e57pu8w9.1 Building: Pearson Chemical Laboratory City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room P-106 Open to Public: No Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Chemistry department Speaker Name: Prof. Wengong Jin, Northeastern University Event Contact Name: Marianne O'Connell Event Contact Email: marianne.o_connell@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-2649 Department of Chemistry - Fall 2025 Seminar Series Title: TBA

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Training/Workshop Event Subject: Health/Wellness Event Sponsor: Tufts University Event Sponsor Details: Office of Emergency Management RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.myabsorb.com/#/instructor-led-courses/aaa669c9-a508-45a6-9a40-091d3d58d08f/ This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED). This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TDRKbAFNQsCNzWLS9Em9hA Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#nov20 Tufts recently entered into an agreement with a solar farm in Texas, marking a significant step in the university’s path toward carbon neutrality. But what are the real climate and financial benefits of buying solar power from across the country—and how do we know? In this talk, sustainability director Tina Woolston and physics professor Roger Tobin explore the renewable electricity options available to universities, how energy markets and carbon accounting shape decision-making, and what the science behind solar energy generation reveals about where and how these projects deliver. Together, they’ll unpack the strategy, assumptions, and implications of Tufts’ solar farm agreement—and what it means for institutions striving to meet climate goals.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Mozart. NME uses the works of Mozart as a springboard for its avant garde programming in music by Arvo Pärt, Peter Ablinger, Kamran Ince, and Pamela Z. Donald Berman, director

Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Training/Workshop Event Subject: Health/Wellness Event Sponsor: Tufts University Event Sponsor Details: Office of Emergency Management RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.myabsorb.com/#/instructor-led-courses/aaa669c9-a508-45a6-9a40-091d3d58d08f/ This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED). This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Afghan Memory Leaves: Sounding With Sola. Afghan author and performer Sola Mahfouz joins Tufts Composers for an exploration of her quantum literary, educational, and artistic leaps from Kandahar to Caltech to New England. Featuring music by Liam Arnold, Julia Cavallaro, Griffen Collins, Hudson Fagan, John McDonald, Chloe Nemes, Matthew Winkler, and more.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences TYP presents their fall concert under the direction of John Page.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences The Flute Ensemble presents a fun, intriguing, and varied program of music from the 17^th to the 21^st century featuring bass, alto, C-flute, and piccolo. Nina Barwell, director

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Fisher Performance Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Paul Ahlstrand and Nando Michelin ensembles.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Baha'i) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Celebrates the anniversary of the appointment of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the son of Baha'u'llah, as the Center of the Covenant. 

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Sikhism) This day commemorates the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji (1621-1675), the ninth of the Ten Sikh Gurus. He is remembered not only for his defense of the Sikh faith, but also of Hinduism and of religious liberty.

Building: Goddard Chapel City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality Event Sponsor: Tufts University RSVP Information: Tufts University Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.