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Where You Partly Cloudy Read It First 22/9 THE TUFTS DAILY Est. 1980 VOLUME LXVIV, NUMBER 15 WEDNEsday, FEBRUARY 11, 2015 TUFTSDAILY.COM Students develop new undergraduate art history journal by Emma Steiner and a columnist for the Daily Assistant News Editor this semester, added that the journal will also act as a Tufts’ new undergradu- resource for students who are ate art history journal, interested in art history but “Medium,” is set to pub- are not specifically involved lish its first edition online with the Department of Art in late March, according to and Art History or the Art “Medium” Editor in Chief History Society. Annalie Aplin, a senior. The “We want to develop a more journal aims to provide a widespread appreciation of venue for undergraduates art,” she said. “Art really isn’t to showcase their work and confined to art history or for- create an art history-spe- mal papers. We are in Boston, cific and academically-cen- and we have the opportunity tered place for students to to go to so many museums for publish formal papers and free. You don’t have to major reviews, Aplin explained. in it, but look at all the things Marketing Chair and you can explore.” Exhibitions Editor, Emily Gruzdowich, a sophomore see MEDIUM, page 2 Visiting the Hill this week NICHOLAS PFOSI / THE TUFTS DAILY The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine announced a new degree program that will train people to control infectious disease in either animals or humans. Vet school offers new infectious THURSDAY FRIDAY “Measuring Personalization of “BME Seminar: Ross Web Services” Maddox” Details: Alan Mislove, assis- Details: Ross Maddox, post- disease degree tant professor of computer doctoral research asso- by Alexander Spring prepare those who are interested “As the human population and information science at ciate at the University of Contributing Writer in the field. continues to increase in numbers Northeastern University, will Washington’s Institute for “The idea is to train people in … there is the encroachment on discuss his research as part Learning and Brain Sciences, The Cummings School that area where there is going to wildlife habitats,” Tzipori said. of the Computer Science will speak as part of the of Veterinary Medicine has be a huge demand for the abil- According to Tzipori, the need Seminar Series. Biomedical Engineering announced a new degree pro- ity of individuals to control the for people in this field will only When and Where: 2:50 p.m. Seminar Series. gram in Infectious Disease and emergence of infectious disease, increase moving forward. – 4 p.m., Halligan Hall Room When and Where: 10 a.m. Global Health. whether they are in animals or “That means the interaction 102 – 11 a.m., SciTech Center The program, led by Saul humans,” Tzipori said. between humans and animals Sponsor: Department of Room 136 Tzipori, Chair of the Department The program was inspired by and domestic wildlife will be Computer Science Sponsor: Department of of Infectious Disease and Global an increasing demand for highly more intense,” he said. “Which Biomedical Engineering Health, and Abhineet Sheoran, skilled individuals in a field that means more and more pan- “Human Factors” the program’s new director, was is more relevant today than ever, demics are going to emerge in Details: Alex Kirlik, profes- SUNDAY created due to a need to better Tzipori explained. see INFECTIOUS, page 2 sor of computer science at “Genres of Middle the University of Illinois at Eastern Clarinet: Music of Urbana-Champaign, will Armenia, Turkey, Greece, be speaking as part of the and the Middle East” Mechanical Engineering Details: Performance fac- Seminar Series. ulty clarinetist and oud When and Where: 3 p.m. – 4 player Mal Barsamian will p.m., Anderson Hall Room showcase a variety of Middle 112 Eastern music styles by per- Sponsor: School of forming works by a selec- Engineering tion of composers from the region. When and Where: 3 p.m. – 5 p.m., Granoff Music Center Distler Performance Hall Sponsor: Department of Music RAY BERNOFF / THE TUFTS DAILY —by Audrey Michael Yesterday marked the fifth snow day as well as the second time Tufts closed campus two days in a row this season. According to the Boston office of the National Weather Service, Boston has broken records for inches of snow in a 14-day period, 20-day period and 30-day period. This season alone, as of Tuesday Feb. 11, Boston has seen 77.3 inches of snow. In a recent tweet, the National Weather Service mentioned there will be more snow and cold coming up in the next several days. Inside this issue Today’s sections Sol Gittleman has been Bluefin may not be the News 1 Op-Ed 9 at Tufts for more than headliner in the cluster 50 years, and con- of Japanese restaurants Features 3 Comics 10 tinues to teach this in Porter Square, but it Arts & Living 5 Sports Back semester. deserves recognition. Editorial | Letters 8 see FEATURES, page 3 see ARTS, page 5 2 THE TUFTS DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Program trains students to handle Medium to feature art reviews, infectious agents academic work by students INFECTIOUS MEDIUM officially associated with continued from page 1 continued from page 1 the Department of Art and the future, rather than less.” According to Travel Editor Art History, many profes- Sheoran and Tzipori bring a Madeline Onstwedder, a first- sors are responding very combined 38 years of experience year, there will be three main positively to the initiative, at the university to the develop- sections: reviews covering Gruzdowich added. ment of the new program. exhibitions in the Boston area “A lot of the professors are “About 75 percent of emerging and beyond, formal papers pretty excited — some of them new diseases in humans came written by undergraduates and even asked if they could con- from animals,” Tzipori said. travel articles that focus on tribute to the journal this year, “Wildlife animals and domestic art-related experiences out- but we ultimately decided to animals are the major source side of the United States. keep it student-run,” she said. of pandemics — diseases that Students at “Medium” are Aplin worked with Associate stretch across the globe such as also considering adding a Professor of Art and Art History SARS and HIV/AIDS. Ebola and fourth section to the journal, Ikumi Kaminishi to discuss HIV are both primate diseases. which would include inter- some of the logistics of start- So this is why it was appropriate views with Tufts alumni work- ing up the journal. to offer this new degree at the ing in the field of art history, “The faculty in our depart- NICHOLAS PFOSI / THE TUFTS DAILY veterinary school.” Students in the new program will gain valuable experience in their field. according to Aplin. ment consider solid research The masters program will last “The journal is completely and skillful writing the most one year, with the inaugural class submission-based and will important elements for [an] beginning in the 2015-2016 aca- this choice late in their college more training, which makes you ultimately depend on what we art historical education,” demic year. The programs at the career, so they may have some more relevant and appealing as get,” she said. “We have a tenta- Kaminishi told the Daily in Cummings School are intention- other unrelated undergraduate a student,” he said. tive fourth section, which us as an email. “Art history majors ally kept small, and the Infectious degree, or deciding now that Those who graduate after one a team will put together, which came to create the Tufts Disease and Global Health degree this is something they would year will be trained to handle would be an alumni interview “Medium,” which demon- program will only have 15 stu- like to pursue.” infectious agents and animal section. We will reach out to strates their proactive engage- dents in order to ensure that they Tzipori maintained that the models and will be prepared alumni in the field and get to ment in building an intel- gain the necessary skills to be program is looking for people to to teach in relation to those know what they’re up to.” lectual community … I am leaders in the field. apply what they have done with infectious agents. Both Onstwedder and impressed with and proud of “We keep our programs small a science background in order to While the program’s incep- Gruzdowich emphasized the our students’ initiatives.” for a reason; it’s a small cohort acquire a valuable new set of skills. tion coincides with the out- travel aspect of the journal. Although the journal will every year because there is a “Sometimes it is very difficult break of Ebola, Sheoran and “With [an] art history degree, begin publishing once per lot of one-on-one work and to be accepted into the medi- Tzipori said that the degree was you are really getting a cultural semester, Onstwedder said she they get a lot of individual fac- cal school and veterinary school not started because of Ebola. degree, and so many students hopes to see a continued pres- ulty time,” said Rebecca Russo, with a limited number of places “We often find it very hard to at Tufts take the opportunity ence of the journal through- director of admissions at the available, and some students hire individuals with expertise to study abroad,” Gruzdowich out the semester in the future. Cummings School. don’t make it,” he said. in this area, especially the tech- said. “We want to pull not only She explained that constant Russo added that while the With the medical school nical staff,” Sheoran said.

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