Senators work toward solar panels to reduce carbon footprint
Student Union Senators Matt Smetana ’17 and David Herbstritt ’17 are working tirelessly to implement solar panels on campus and specifically, on top of Admissions. The senators hope to get the project moving before the winter of 2016, as they look to present their idea to the Interim President Lisa Lynch this January. Smetana, a […]
Journalist and activist speaks about immediacy of climate change
Journalist, climate activist and author Wen Stephenson said climate change “demands a radical response,” during a speech on Thursday, Oct. 15 where he discussed his writing and activist efforts in areas such as divestment from fossil fuels. Stephenson spoke about his new book “What We’re Fighting For Now is Each Other,” to over 40 Brandeis […]
Hunger and Homelessness launch another Brandeis Be Our Guest
Brandeis students are invited to donate their guest meals to Waltham’s homeless community as part of the sixth-annual Brandeis Be Our Guest Program through Tuesday, Sept. 29. The program, run by Hunger and Homelessness Coordinators Rose Wallace ’16, Max Parish ’16, Lily Elderkin ’18 and Mira McMahon ’18, has already collected 262 guest meals, as […]
Brandeis invites new interim head of sociology
This fall semester, Brandeis named distinguished professor and researcher Dr. Peter Conrad the interim head of the sociology department. In the department’s efforts to secure a permanent department head, Conrad has gladly agreed to fill this interval position. His nine prior years of experience as head of the department in the 1990s, as well as […]