LONG-TERM OUTLOOK: Team C’s plan supported Atieno’s farm, but suggested she put her efforts into one pig house before building a second one.
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SMART FARM: Eunice Atieno, a Kenyan woman, will implement the winning student business strategy to grow her family pig farm.
BUSINESS BUFF: Prof. William Oliver (IBS) was an assisting faculty member to the Kenya Challenge competition for business students.
Deepening American history
History is subjective—we learn what we do about our country’s past because someone else, some nebulous authoritative force, decided it was worth recording and knowing. Who gets to make these highly political decisions about our collective national memory? Part of the answer is found in the work of historians like Alan Taylor Ph.D. ’86, who devote their lives to bringing light to what actually might have happened in our nation’s history.
SELDOM-TOLD STORIES: Internal Enemy seeks to delve into lesser-known aspects of historical events such as the pivotal bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, during which the Chesapeake Bay campaign of the British Navy was successfully thwarted by American forces.
WAR HISTORIAN: Alan Taylor Ph.D. ’83 received his second Pulitzer Prize in history for his work on slaves who defected to British forces during the War of 1812.
Revolutionizing health care
The Candy Crush Saga mobile app, in which players match colored candies with one another, is simple enough for a preschooler to play. Inconceivably, the app has been recently valued at $7.6 billion according to a March 12 New York Times article. Why is a mind-numbingly boring task so addictive to the human brain?
The HealthIQ mobile app utilizes the same psychology as the mobile app Candy Crush to motivate students to engage in health resources and education on their campuses.
History of motion
Marcus Book Store is the oldest black-owned book store in the nation. Owned by Raye and Julian Richardson, the store’s name pays homage to Marcus Garvey, a charismatic proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement. Located in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, a historically black neighborhood, the book store has long been an inspiration for civic engagement groups pursuing racial equality. The bookstore also has been home to one of Brandeis’ newest professors.
Childs sees the study of the African diaspora as “an ongoing dialogue between different forms of knowledge about black existence.”
Johnson explains that she studies dance to see “how blacks dance, even if they are not the ones dictating the movement.”
Profs. Johnson (AAAS/WGS), pictured above, and Childs (HIST) are members of an emerging class of scholars who see the African diaspora as a phenomenon that is historically seminal.
Scholars for justice
Having a disability places one in the world’s largest minority group. According to the U.N., around 15 percent of the world’s population—an estimated one billion people—live with disabilities.
The Lurie Institute, located in the Heller School, creates social policies integrating individuals with disabilities into mainstream health care and education.
From left to right: Jennie Bromberg ’15, Deanna Marion ’15, Elizabeth Chalfin ’15, and Jennifer Louse Lee ’15.
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