April 12, 2024 | Vol. 53, Issue 7
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Lot Used by Church, Community Groups Denied Parking Permit Amid Push for Cleaner Air

by Sampan Editor

The Boston Air Pollution Control Commission voted at a December 2023 meeting to reject an application to keep in use 30 exempt, longtime parking spaces on a strip of land along Harvard and Hudson Street near the future site of affordable housing. The land currently is part of a lot used by Tufts Shared Services, the non-profit corporation that handles infrastructure needs for both Tufts University and Tufts Medical Center. The lot has been, for about 20 years, used as […]

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Tufts University Organizes Chinatown Neighborhood Spring Cleanup

by guest

On Wednesday, May 10, Tufts University hosted its 3rd annual Cherish Chinatown Cleanup, a spring neighborhood cleanup in Boston’s Chinatown, the home of the university’s Health Sciences Campus. Over one hundred Tufts students, faculty, and staff volunteers participated in the effort, picking up trash, working on landscaping projects and cleaning up sidewalks, all while learning more about the neighborhood and ways to continue or begin involvement with local nonprofit community partners.   With the support of Tufts University’s office of Government and […]

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Tufts University’s Class of 2023 Graduation Ceremony: “Loudly! Step Up and Speak Up”

by Sampan Staff

Amina J. Mohammed, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, delivered the commencement address to the Tufts University Class of 2023 and their guests on Tufts’ Medford/Somerville campus on May 21th. The university conferred 3,730 degrees. In her speech, Mohammed acknowledged the challenges faced by the current generation, but expressed hope for the future and encouraged the graduates to “step up and speak up – loudly.” Mohammed continued: “Question stereotypes. Don’t just blindly accept the received narratives. My entire career, indeed, […]

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Meeting Our Neighbors at the Chinatown Summer Ice Cream Social

by Christopher John Stephens

Tufts University Government and Community Relations hosted an Ice Cream Social in the neighborhood on the Health Sciences Campus in Chinatown on July 21st. It was a great opportunity to beat the heat and meet our neighbors. This reporter had the opportunity to interview Liza Perry, Deputy Director, Tufts University Government and Community Relations, about the past, present, and future of Tufts University’s role in the Chinatown community.  What initiatives are you hoping to launch after the summer’s over? We […]

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Cherish Chinatown Challenge

by Moninisha Yadav

In response to these difficulties within the local AAPI community, student leaders from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine began an initiative called Cherish Chinatown.

Tufts Medical Center
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Tufts Medical Center hits 225 Year Milestone

by Sampan Staff

Community hospital Tufts Medical Center is celebrating its 225th anniversary this year. Founded in 1796, Tufts has been a cornerstone of public healthcare for local, lower income families since its conception. In a time before what we know as “organized medicine”, during which healthcare was only readily available to wealthier families through private doctors, Tufts, still known as the Boston Dispensary at the time, was formed to make healthcare more accessible by providing medicine and supplies to doctors making housecalls. […]

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Tufts Medical Center address smoking issue in local communities

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(請點這裡閱讀中文版。) By Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center’s (Tufts MC) Asian Health Initiative (AHI) was established in 1995 to identify health priorities of particular concern and importance to the local Asian community and to work collaboratively with local community-based organizations to address those health concerns. AHI’s focus in the past few years have been on tobacco/nicotine prevention and cessation support as a mechanism to combat the leading causes of death in Chinatown: heart disease and lung cancer. In 2020, Tufts […]

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Tuft University’s decision to shut down Confucius Institute led to contrasted opinions

by Martin Ma (馬笑喻)

(請點這裡閱讀中文版。)  After years of campaigning by local activists, James Glaser, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, and Diana Chigas, senior international officer and associate provost, announced the decision to close the Confucius Institute at Tufts University (CITU) on March 17, much to the delight of Tibetan student groups, but not without some measure of other students’ concern. CITU is a non-profit educational collaboration between Tufts and Beijing Normal University (BNU). It was founded on June […]

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Chinatown addresses relationship building with Tufts

by Anqi Zhang

Boston Chinatown community leaders addressed resilience among Chinese immigrants through difficult times in a webinar hosted by Tufts University faculty on Dec 4. The webinar, titled Voices from Chinatown: Resilience in the Time of COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Racism, also proposed suggestions for Chinatown to build a harmonious relationship as a host neighborhood with Tufts University. Like other Chinatowns in the U.S, the Boston Chinatown has had a long history of trauma — from the urban renewal projects displacing families and […]

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