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Professor Ibrahim Sundiata’s new Class, “The History of Black-Jewish Relations in America,” examines two groups that have helped to define the American experience. On Monday, the topic was explored in a new light at the joint Brandeis Black Student Organization and Hillel organized “Common Ground: Exploring Black and Jewish Relations.” Jonathan Kaufman, Pulitzer Prize-winner and […]
Originally from Romania, Paul Vancea ’14 is representative of the diverse multitude of students at Brandeis University, having arrived in the United States six years ago. His family had the ability to come to the United States because they won the visa lottery. In Romania, different families can apply every year to become an American […]
While college-aged students may be too old to trick-or-treat on Halloween, Brandeis students defy this idea. For the past 26 years, the Waltham Group’s Hunger and Homelessness program has offered a special Halloween opportunity for the Brandeis community. This year’s event collected more than 4,100 items of nonperishable food. Each year, during the weeks preceding […]
Fellows of the Brandeis Experiential and Community-Engaged Learning program (ExCEL) hosted an egg drop competition for Brandeis students on Wednesday. Participants were provided materials to build a contraption capable of protecting an egg dropped from the Shapiro Campus Center balcony. ExCEL offers students and faculty unique opportunities to expand their learning and teaching potential beyond […]
Alex Dainis ’11 has found a way to merge her passions in a way that is making her YouTube famous. During her time at Brandeis, Dainis juggled multiple majors and various activities. Graduating with majors in biology and film, television and media, Dainis used her skills to create her own YouTube channel. The channel, called […]
Harvard Professor and research scientist Dr. Stephen Elledge won this year’s Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science, founded by Brandeis and established in 1971. The $30,000 award honors scientists who discover mechanisms underlying disease and development. “It is centered on … understanding the underlying cellular and molecular processes that allow cells and […]
Laura Ben Moore ’14 first started pole dancing when she was looking for a new form of fitness. “I took classes at a fitness studio that specialized in fitness for women. So they had pole dancing and chair dancing, but of course they also had standard classes like pilates and yoga.” Now, with two years […]
BEMCo is an entirely student-run service; the two supervisors, Hannah Goldberg and Paul Schneider, are undergraduate students who have experience working both on and off campus. These two supervisors alternate being on call every other day and there are always a total of four people on call at all times. All calls that BEMCo receives […]
For the month of October, Aramark dining services have nominated Omar Benbaraka for Employee of the Month. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, Benbaraka has been employed by Aramark for eight years. Benbaraka describes his hometown as “the biggest city there.” Passionate for soccer, he explored his enthusiasm for the sport by playing in Morocco for 10 […]
Mary Jo Larson, a senior scientist at the Heller School, researches effective types of mental health care and the related financial components, and was one of committee members who published a new report initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Institute of Medicine, titled “Substance Use Disorders in the U.S. Armed Forces.” “I’ve […]
