Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Throughout the year there are various weeks that recognize the ills and misfortunes that plague society. Here are a couple of the more well-known events: Suicide Prevention Week/To Write Love on Her Arms, Day of Silence, True Beauty Day, Bullying Prevention Month, National Child Abuse Prevention Month and National Coming Out Day. The advancement and […]
The summer just ended, and it’s time to go back to the grindstone of classes and coffee. I can safely say that, in the small amount of time we’ve had classes, I’ve already begun to notice how little free time I’m going to have but would like to reminisce on summer. To preface this epic […]
Graduating from Brandeis is really difficult, especially if you loved your college years as much as my close friends and I did. I graduated a year and a half ago, and since then, many of my peers and I have had to struggle with the unique dilemma of what to do now that the most […]
I woke up Wednesday in the hopes of purchasing Apple’s new iPhone. It won’t be in my hand for another week, but I was ready to get my order in anyway. I’m a fanboy, so obsessed with Apple products that I watched the keynote address at work that afternoon, following dorky blogs for updates in […]
As Tuesday marked the 11th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on Manhattan’s World Trade Center and the destruction of the twin towers, commemoration services honor the lives of those who were lost, serving as an eternal reminder of the tragic event. Usman Yasin Hameedi ’12, a recent Brandeis graduate who lost a close […]
The new Interim Protestant Chaplain Matt Carriker recently took the job previously held by long-time friend Alexander Kern and is embracing his new position on campus. Hailing from Natick, Carriker attended Bates College before entering the seminary. He spent three years in Belize and then traveled to Haiti, welcomed by Jesuit volunteers. Now an ordained […]
Shulin Ju, a Brandeis postdoc under the direction of Professors Gregory Petsko (BCHM) and Dagmar Ringe (BCHM), aided in a study that has found a potential use for the previously rejected drug latrepirdine, a discovery that may eventually help millions of people with neurodegenerative conditions. In collaboration with researchers at the Mount Sinai School of […]
