Building: Sophia Gordon Hall City: Somerville, MA 02144 Room: Sophia Gordon Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Sophia Gordon Hall room 100 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Interns and Residents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Global Engagement,Research,Sustainability/Climate RSVP Information: https://www.linkedin.com/events/aninternationalsymposiumonabund7351295658781237251/ Admission/Cost: $0 Event Contact Name: Justin Hollander Event Contact Email: justin.hollander@tufts.edu Link: https://sites.tufts.edu/newtowns/ This symposium will explore the potential of ‘new towns’ to address a range of housing affordability and community planning challenges, as well as new research methods and techniques for using adaptive zoning techniques in urban planning. Most cities and towns in North America are zoned almost entirely as “single-family residential.” This means that when they are fully built-out every farm, field, and forest is developed. These communities will always be car-oriented, sprawling, and too low-density to support public transit. However, this is not the only way: abundant housing advocates are increasingly coalescing around the need for “new towns,” large master-planned communities that can happen through adaptive zoning innovation. These new towns consider the range of transportation, water/sewer, electricity, waste, safety, education, and other infrastructures while allowing for the creation of places that are mixed-use, walkable, bikeable, and dense enough to support public transit.  This symposium will bring together creative thinkers from around the world who are advancing knowledge in these areas, helping to shape a new kind of planning and design practice—one that embraces innovative approaches to housing crises through community-based solutions.

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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 Tufts Pep Band performs a concert for children and families. Michel Muller, director

Building: Ellis Oval City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 18 Lower Campus Rd. Somerville, MA Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Health/Wellness RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zR5Ydb8oyeJXSPwKw5W5CZ6z_Q2hrkWnoFsGMvh6qNI/viewform?edit_requested=true Admission/Cost: Donations to Team Impact encouraged Event Contact Name: Francis Roche Event Contact Email: francis.roche@tufts.edu Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zR5Ydb8oyeJXSPwKw5W5CZ6z_Q2hrkWnoFsGMvh6qNI/viewform?edit_requested=true Join the Boston Team IMPACT community as we come together to support the Team IMPACT 5K! Run, walk, or roll...

Building: Academic Quad City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Parking available at Dowling Garage, 419 Boston Ave. Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Community Celebration RSVP Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUh_kxYcoVhBaYvrxtEqqqCdwme5-YnadSi0ff_9NI0BaFGA/viewform Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Email: communityrelations@tufts.edu Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUh_kxYcoVhBaYvrxtEqqqCdwme5-YnadSi0ff_9NI0BaFGA/viewform Leonard Carmichael Society and Tufts Athletics have revived a long held annual tradition: Halloween on the Hill (HOH)! Back by popular demand, we are inviting neighboring families to celebrate Halloween with an afternoon of activities, crafts, and candy! This event will be occurring on Sunday, October 19 from 3–5 p.m. on Tufts Academic Quad. We are asking that all children be accompanied by an adult. Come in costume and with an appetite for spooks and shenanigans. Please fill out this form if you plan to attend! We will provide more information as the time approaches.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Hinduism) Perhaps the most popular of all Hindu festivals, also known as the Festival of Lights, it is dedicated to the goddess Kali in Bengal and to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, in the rest of India. As with several other festivals, Diwali is associated with one of the stories about the destruction of evil by Vishnu in one of his many manifestations. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.