University releases new framework for Strategic Plan
Provost Steve Goldstein released the preliminary framework for Brandeis’ strategic plan on Wednesday, highlighting the university’s commitments to social justice, global connections and selective academic excellence in new focus areas. “This proposed framework reshapes our practices in profound ways, guiding us toward the fulfillment of our founding vision while addressing today’s unique challenges,” Goldstein wrote […]
No. 22 women’s soccer improves to 10-1-1
During the women’s soccer team game last Thursday against Babson, the Judges showed a dominating performance, winning 4-1. In their second game against Case Western on Saturday, the slow play ended in a draw for both sides. The match was defined by stellar goalkeeping and an up-and-down pace that exploded into scoring chances for both […]
64 years ago, Univ celebrated founding
This past week marked the 64th anniversary of Brandeis University’s founding. When originally founded on Oct. 7, 1948, President Abram Sachar delivered a speech at Symphony Hall in Boston, accepting his position of office at the newly founded university. In his speech, Sachar focused on the birth of Brandeis, with its “procession, which includes delegation […]
Alum builds on Peace Corps experience in conservation biology career
In a remote village along the Bay of Antongil in Madagascar, a small cluster of local children excitedly follow an American woman’s trail. To onlooker Dan Perlman, Associate Provost and Professor of Biology at Brandeis, their smiling faces say it all. “We’d walk through the town, and a cloud of children would run after her […]
Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Affirmative Action case
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments challenging affirmative action on Wednesday in the case of Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin. In Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003, the Court—under Justice Sandra Day O’Connor—upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s use of limited racial preference, ruling that race could be a factor in admissions, […]
BC Student Selected as First Ever UN Youth Observer
Brooke Loughrin, a junior at Boston College in the Presidential Scholars Program has been selected as the first ever United States Youth Observer at the United Nations. Loughrin is originally from Seattle, Wash. and has spent extensive time abroad in India, Senegal, Iran, Turkey, Nicaragua and Tajikistan. According to the UNA-USA, the youth observer position […]
Local hotels increase prices for Fall Fest weekend
As Fall Fest at Brandeis begins this Thursday with a flurry of activity, it is not only families, students and professors on campus who feel the excitement of this weekend each year. The hotel community in Waltham and surrounding towns is also highly aware of the arrival of relatives to Brandeis each October, marked by […]
At faculty insistence, administration to make public more specific committee reports
After the new strategic plan’s preliminary framework was presented at the October faculty meeting Thursday, where several professors criticized its generality, President Fred Lawrence retook the floor and announced that a larger amount of information would be made public than originally intended. At the beginning of the forum, Provost Steve Goldstein had stressed broad principles […]
Alum Seth Roberts ’06 passes away
Seth Roberts ’06, a dedicated Brandeis student athlete from Orange, Conn., passed away on Sunday at a Boston hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 28. Roberts graduated from Amity Regional Senior High School in Woodbridge, Conn., and majored in American studies, and business while minoring in journalism in his years at Brandeis. […]
Quidditch team combines athletics with friendship
The Quidditch team is often seen practicing on Chapels Field, running like mad amid giant hoops, volleyballs flying abound, some players chasing and others keeping guard, and all the while each playing while holding a broom between their legs. Needless to say, this team is a favorite among campus tour groups. But what looks like […]
BOLLI school seeks connection with Brandeis students
Brandeis offers a range of graduate school programs including the Heller School and International Business School, but Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (BOLLI) provides resources for a different demographic. The program provides liberal arts classes to people ranging in age from 50-95 and has almost 500 members. Nationally, Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes serve students at […]
EcoGrounds café celebrates its grand opening
EcoGrounds, the new Library coffee shop, celebrated its grand opening on Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and party after a week of serving coffee and pastries to eager library-goers. Located in the Goldfarb Library’s Green Room, EcoGrounds is an expansion of Java City, the coffee shop hidden inside the Heller School. EcoGrounds is a brand […]
Social Justice Committee unites to fight sexual harassment
The Student Union, which acts as a liaison between students and their administration, says that fighting sexual harassment is the main priority of the Social Justice Committee this year. “I would love the students to maintain great communication with whoever becomes the university investigator, called the Special Examiner,” Park said. This year in Director of […]
Len Gerzon ’80 runs for New Hampshire State Representative
Brandeis alum Len Gerzon ’80 is running for a seat as a State Representative in the New Hampshire legislature. Gerzon is running as a Democrat, against Republican Laurie Sanborn, who has served as the deputy assistant majority leader in the State House of Representatives. Both Gerzon and Sanborn ran unopposed in their primary elections on […]
Harvard drops to fourth place in World University Rankings
Harvard’s ranking in the Times Higher Education, a magazine based in London, fell to fourth this year. Two years ago, Harvard sat at the top of the list. Last year it lost to the California Institute of Technology. This year, Harvard switched spots with Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) usurped Princeton’s spot […]
Rosbash named Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience
The university named Professor Michael Rosbash the Patricia and Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience last week. Rosbash is widely esteemed by his peers and colleagues and has received countless awards in his field throughout his professional career. Not only does Rosbash teach classes in the Neuroscience Department at Brandeis, but his research has also […]
Community mourns death of Alexa Christakos
A vibrant member of the Brandeis community, Alexa Christakos ’11, died Sept. 4 in a motorcycle accident in New Hampshire. She and the motorcycle driver, Michael Gazeaud, 36, were pronounced dead at the scene. She was an American Studies and Philosophy major. “Alexa was a witty, gracious and congenial young woman. A proud Greek-American, she […]
Alum seeks living kidney transplant
For Brandeis alum and 29-year-old Julia Kleyman, days filled with dialysis treatment, check ups and donor searches now replace her old hours spent working in the scientific instruments industry. Diagnosed with chronic kidney disease at age 17 but suffering from kidney failure since this April, Kleyman described the search for a living kidney transplant as […]
Heller School helps develop prescription drug monitoring program
The Heller School Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Center of Excellence, part of the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, has launched research and data analysis designed to help drug prescribers prevent patient misuse of prescription drugs. The Massachusetts Prescription Drug Monitoring Program and the Center have received several grants since 2008, including a grant from the […]
Counseling center to launch new evening discussion program
The Psychological Counseling Center is launching a new program of group talks this semester called “Brandeis at Night,” seeking to provoke community discussions about stress, mental health and available resources on campus. Cate Dooley, a part-time psychotherapist and spear-header of the Brandeis at Night program, hopes that the sessions will encourage more students to visit […]
