Messinger and Berman named UAA Fencer of the Week
The Brandeis fencing team may have some inexperienced members, but they are improving at a rapid pace: competitors Zoe Messinger ’13 and Noah Berman ’15 both won UAA Fencer of the Week honors. “It means that in the UAA, Noah Berman and I had the best records,” Messinger said. “I am proud of my performance, […]
Men’s basketball outplays Emory, loses by seven to Rochester
The men’s basketball team split their two University Athletic Association (UAA) games this past weekend, narrowly defeating Emory University on Friday and losing to the University of Rochester on Sunday. Although Brandeis had lost to both squads the previous weekend, these recent matches were played at home and were hotly contested. The Judges started with […]
Rosbash, Hall win Wiley prize
Professor Michael Rosbash (BIOL), the Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Jeffrey Hall, along with their colleague Michael Young of Rockefeller University, have been awarded the 12th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences for the discovery of the molecules that control the circadian rhythm. The discovery is significant to scientists who study sleep cycles, […]
Panel discusses presence of social justice in business
’Deis Impact hosted a discussion on Ethics and Social Justice in Business on Monday evening as part of a series of events designed to bring the campus community together while defining social justice. The event sought to answer the question “Just because it’s legal, does it mean it’s ethical?” while defining social justice from a […]
Univ braces for blizzard, cancels Friday classes
With a blizzard warning in effect and forecasters predicting about two feet of snow along with the possibility of white out conditions and near zero visibility at times, university officials canceled classes Friday but expected the campus to operate without any major difficulties during the weekend. “Dining halls are fully staffed. They have enough food, […]
Dushkus deliver keynote address of ‘Deis Impact
Actress Eliza Dushku, most famous for her role on “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” and her mother Judy Dushku, a political science professor at Suffolk University, visited campus to deliver the keynote speech for ’Deis Impact, the weeklong festival of social justice events, Wednesday in Levin Ballroom. The Dushkus are the founders of THRIVE-Gulu, a nonprofit […]
Students talk to released inmate Damien Echols
Forming part of ’Deis Impact week, Brandeis seniors, working on the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, spoke with released inmate, Damien Echols, his wife, his defense team advisor and a correspondent for CBS’s 48 Hours at Rapaporte Treasure Hall Tuesday evening. After a screening of the trailer of “West […]
Women’s basketball gets revenge against Rochester, ends seven-game losing streak
Back on their home court after two consecutive travel weekends, the women’s basketball team got their chance for revenge last weekend against Emory University and the University of Rochester. With their goals for the weekend fresh in their minds, the Judges beat the UAA third-ranked Rochester Yellow Jackets, breaking their seven-game losing streak on their […]
Jubilee Project emphasizes power of social media to create a more just world
In a ’Deis Impact event last Saturday, members of the Jubilee Project, Eric Lu, Eddie Lee and Jason Lee, visited Brandeis to encourage students to use social media creatively to inspire others to action through the power of storytelling. The event, cosponsored by Jubilee Project Brandeis, BAASA, the BPA and the ICC, was titled “Ordinary […]
Using art to demonstrate atrocities of war
Seeking to portray the casualties and atrocities of warfare, Linda Bond, artist and visiting scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, presented “The Artist as an Advocate for Social Change” to the Brandeis Community. As an integral component of ’Deis Impact, a festival promoting social justice and advocacy, the event explored the portrayal of traumatic […]
Senior artist draws on painting inspiration from diverse academic interests
As the current seniors begin their last semester at Brandeis, the studio art majors are now working on their senior theses. Aliza Sternstein ’13 is a studio art major with a focus on painting and a minor in economics from Long Island, N.Y. Sternstein said she has “always been interested in art, though I am […]
Writing and one-liners highlights in ‘Hansel and Gretel’
“Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” is exactly how the movie is advertised. It follows in the tradition of those wintertime action movies loaded with copious amounts of explosions and action that seem to prequel summer blockbusters. Hansel (Jeremy Renner, who played Hawkeye in “The Avengers”) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton, the Princess in “Prince of Persia” […]
Nieske shines in Music at Mandel concert
Silky smooth jazz, good company and the nice backdrop of the Mandel Atrium are a trifecta for the perfect afternoon. Brandeis students, faculty and Waltham residents were quick to discover this during Brandeis’ Jazz Ensemble performance Wednesday. Initially advertised as a performance by the entire Brandeis Ensemble, the show simply featured Professor Robert Nieske (MUS) […]
WSRC celebrates 25 years of Women Making Music
The Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center celebrated the 25th anniversary of the anthology, “Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition 1150-1950,” compiled by Judith Tick and Jane Bowers last Sunday. At the event, Judith Tick, the Matthews Distinguished Professor of Music at Northeastern University, spoke with grace and clear passion, detailing her life as musicologist […]
‘Happy Endings’ filled with outrageously good writing
Americans have poor taste in television. There I said it. We rarely know when to let a show die. Take “The Office” for example. In Britain, the show survived two seasons (referred to there as a series) and a Christmas special. Ricky Gervais, never one to let his shows continue past their expiration date, ended […]
Brandeis University Press authors win 2013 National Jewish Book Awards
Brandeis University Press has recently boasted a series of successes, with two authors nominated as winners of the 2013 National Jewish Book Awards. Anita Shapira’s “Israel: A History” won in the history category, while Elana Maryles Sztokman earned a win in women’s studies for “The Men’s Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World.” Brandeis […]
