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Making a Mark: Barak [right] interned last summer at Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization that partners with tech companies like Facebook to help bridge the gender gap by teaching teenage girls computer science skills.
Standing Up: Kiki Dimitriadou a fourth year Ph.D. student sees a significant gender disparity between female and male students as her courses become more intensive.
Leading Ladies: WiCS members, Eden Shoshan '16 (left), Gal Barak '16 (center) and Elena Stoeri- D'Arrigo teach female students computer science through an after school program at Waltham High school.
According to the National Center for Women and Information, 37 percent of Computer Science undergraduate degree recipients in 1985 were women. By 2012, that number dropped significantly to 18 percent—with the most prominent names in the field being men.
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If you have ever been to North Carolina, then you have been to a state that once held the name “Klansville, U.S.A.” Nicknamed “Klansville” for its overwhelming Ku Klux Klan membership, North Carolina became a state whose Klan population surprisingly outnumbered those in all the other southern states combined.
If you could spend a summer working anywhere in the world on a project that promotes social justice with the organization of your choice, how would you even begin to decide what to do? What if the deal got a bit more interesting—let's say you would be backed by a community of peers and ethics experts and you'd receive up to $4,000 to finance your dream?
VOICE OF EXPERIENCE: Marci McPhee (left) and David Weinstein (right), both from the Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, pose together at last year’s festival.
SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER: Heather Spector ’17 takes the podium at last year’s ’DEIS Impact festival of social justice.
ALL TOGETHER NOW: This year’s ’DEIS Impacters pose together for a picture with the festival’s new logo. The group of 16 students connect campus clubs through event programming and collaboration.
’DEIS Impact is a festival of social justice taking place Friday through Feb 9. This week-long festival will consist of more than 40 events hosted by clubs, students and academic departments. The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and the Student Union sponsor this annual event. Just Features sat down with Heather Spector ’17, the vice chair of ’DEIS Impact.
The Homeric textual tradition recognizes that no one person is responsible for the Iliad or the Odyssey. Rather, these texts evolved for well over a thousand years, from the pre-Classical era into the Middle Ages, as the result of intergenerational intellectual collaboration. Similarly, the Homer Multitext Project, which aims to increase digital accessibility to these texts, relies on intergenerational intellectual collaboration between undergraduates and professors and across multiple institutions.
TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORIAN: A page of Manuscript B, one of the digitized Homeric manuscripts that are now availble for free.
From where Jianfeng Lin was born and raised, he could gaze across the six-mile wide Taiwan Strait and make out the skyline of Taipei, the capital of the sovereign Chinese territory and island Taiwan.
Schools such as Brown University or Bennington College champion the right of the student to design an individualized course of study within a strong advising network of faculty and student advisors. The Independent Interdisciplinary Major program at Brandeis aims to create an academic space for a similar type of individual creativity; however, this is a space which also must exist within the structure of a more academically traditional university.
Michelle Wexler ‘16 (left) created the major of Social Justice Social Change, and she plans to pursue further study in social work after graduation.
Julia Moffitt is the program coordinator for the Independent Interdisciplinary Majors.
Prof. Daniela Nicastro (BIOL), pincipal investigator, has encouraged Lin to step into more of a leadership role.
Jianfeng Lin creates 3-D images of diverse cell bodies using this three million dollar microscope.