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On Oct. 13, Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities John Plotz welcomed Professor of English Stephen McCauley, Associate Professor of English Elizabeth Bradfield and Xuefei Jin (Ha Jin), MA’89, PhD ’93, H’05, to a panel...
On Oct. 11th, Brandeis hosted a hybrid event featuring six members of the HBI Holocaust Research Study Group (HRSG). The event brought together Debra Kaufman, Laurel Leff, Rachel Rapperport Munn, Karin Rosenthal, Sarah Silberstein Swartz...
Brandeis is currently hosting JustArts, the twice-a-year celebration of Brandeis faculty and staff artwork, from Oct. 2 to 23 at the Dreitzer Gallery. In addition to faculty and staff, postdoctoral researchers and faculty emeriti were...
On Sept. 12, Brandeis student Cameron Samuels ’26 traveled to Washington, D.C. to testify in front of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee about book bans. Samuels’ advocacy started well before their recent visit to...
As Brandeis prepares to celebrate its 75th anniversary, students, faculty, staff and alumni are all converging on campus for a weekend of events. University President Ron Liebowitz wrote about the importance of the event in...
Since what has been called a “deadly attack against Israel by the Hamas militant group” per Reuters this past weekend, Brandeis students, faculty and staff have come together to support each other. As of the...
In an email sent to Brandeis students, faculty and staff on Oct. 3, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion LeManuel Bitsóí and Helaine B. Allen and Cynthia L. Berenson Distinguished Visiting Professor and WSRC...
This semester, the university welcomed 30 “new full-time and visiting faculty members and postdoctoral faculty fellows” to its ranks. According to an article on Brandeis’ website, these faculty members cover 19 different areas of study....
Drew Weissman ’81, GSAS MA ’81, P’15, H’23 and Senior Vice President at BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals Katalin Karikó H’23 jointly won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work on messenger...
Each fall semester, Brandeis hosts multiple rounds of what it has coined “Fall for Brandeis Days.” This year, there are a total of five Fall for Brandeis Days throughout the semester, where prospective students can...
Eve Marder ’69, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield University Professor in Neuroscience and Biology, was recently awarded the 2023 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from The Rockefeller University. Marder is one of two recipients of this prestigious...
In emails sent to Brandeis students on Sept. 19 and Sept. 25, the Brandeis Student Union Allocations Board (A-Board) announced to students that Marathon would be starting soon and gave students information about a new...
In an interview with The Hoot, two members of Revolutionary Student Organization (RSO) Brandeis spoke about the recent delegation that they held on Sept. 20.   According to the group’s Instagram, RSO “joined dining workers...
Sam Aronson (Heller Social Impact MBA ’23 and ’20) and Alden Kennedy (Heller Social Impact MBA ’23) recently founded their company Tree for Taking with the vision of reinventing the guitar manufacturing industry to become...
In an email sent to Brandeis students, faculty and staff on Sept. 27, university President Ron Liebowitz shared updates from the month’s Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting. The meeting took place on Sept. 11 and...
On Sept. 27, Brandeis students received an email from Carol Fierke, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, which stated that the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program (MKTYP) was changing its name to the...
Brandeis’ Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) works to create a “diverse and inclusive institution for women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and asexual (LGBTQ) faculty, staff, and students.” They trace LGBTQ life at Brandeis...
On Monday, Sept. 18, U.S. News and World Report released a new set of college rankings after completing an overhaul of their ranking system. Many universities saw their rankings change, including Brandeis, whose ranking fell...
As the U.N. gets set to meet, tens of thousands of protestors gathered in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, Sept. 17 to make their voices heard on the climate crisis. This protest was part...
In a recent legal verdict, a Middlesex Superior Court jury has ruled in favor of Robin Nelson-Bailey, a former administrator at Brandeis University, in a discrimination lawsuit against the institution. This case stems from allegations...

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