Elledge, Harvard professor, wins annual Rosenstiel Award
Harvard Professor and research scientist Dr. Stephen Elledge won this year’s Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science, founded by Brandeis and established in 1971. The $30,000 award honors scientists who discover mechanisms underlying disease and development. “It is centered on … understanding the underlying cellular and molecular processes that allow cells and […]
Pole dancing club off to an explosive start
Laura Ben Moore ’14 first started pole dancing when she was looking for a new form of fitness. “I took classes at a fitness studio that specialized in fitness for women. So they had pole dancing and chair dancing, but of course they also had standard classes like pilates and yoga.” Now, with two years […]
Waltham Group sponsors Halloween for the Hungry
While college-aged students may be too old to trick-or-treat on Halloween, Brandeis students defy this idea. For the past 26 years, the Waltham Group’s Hunger and Homelessness program has offered a special Halloween opportunity for the Brandeis community. This year’s event collected more than 4,100 items of nonperishable food. Each year, during the weeks preceding […]
ExCEL class studies at Museum of Fine Arts
Fellows of the Brandeis Experiential and Community-Engaged Learning program (ExCEL) hosted an egg drop competition for Brandeis students on Wednesday. Participants were provided materials to build a contraption capable of protecting an egg dropped from the Shapiro Campus Center balcony. ExCEL offers students and faculty unique opportunities to expand their learning and teaching potential beyond […]
Brandeis EMTs balance student leadership and training
BEMCo is an entirely student-run service; the two supervisors, Hannah Goldberg and Paul Schneider, are undergraduate students who have experience working both on and off campus. These two supervisors alternate being on call every other day and there are always a total of four people on call at all times. All calls that BEMCo receives […]
