Anita Hill wins PEN award
Anita Hill (AAAS, LGLS, The Heller School, WMGS), has been named the winner of the Courage Award from Poets, Essayists, Novelists (PEN) America. PEN America is an organization that aims to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide, with a focus on the combination of literature and human rights. According the PEN website, […]
Brandeis Graduate becomes first woman to win Abel Prize
Brandeis graduate Karen Uhlenbeck ’66 Ph.D. ’68 became the first woman to win the Abel Prize, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, announced the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on Tuesday, March 19. According to the Abel Prize Committee, she won the award for “her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge […]
