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REFLECTING: Retreat planning committee members sit with students and staff in a peaceful sit-in in the atrium of the Shapiro Campus Center last Wednesday to promote the upcoming mindfulness retreat.
How often have you found yourself torn between choosing an apple or a bowl of ice cream? The struggle between choosing to eat healthy and indulging in your favorite treats is a difficult one, but Michael Shoretz ’09 doesn’t believe that you have to compromise. That is why he created the company Beyond Better Foods, which launched ENLIGHTENED Ice Cream in 2013.
BETTER BARS: ENLIGHTENED Ice Cream comes in 10 different flavors—from sea salt caramel bars to mint ice cream sandwiches—and contains significantly less sugar than the average ice cream bar with high fiber and protein, too.
ROOMMATES: [from left to right] Noah Kaplan, Ryan Schwab, Elie Sternberg, Shoretz, Perry Bell and Jonathan Freed were all roommates and Class of 2009 graduates.
FAMILY: Carol Ann Finkelstein, Shoretz’s mother and president of Beyond Better Foods, stands with Shoretz by the first airplane to carry ENLIGHTENED Crisps.
Although Brandeis’ campus is just beginning to thaw out from the harsh winter, some students have been planning for the onset of spring for months. Members of the newly chartered Farmers Club are in the midst of preparations for a new rooftop farm and farmer’s market.
VISIONARY: Jay Feinstein ’17 co-founded The Farmers Club with a mission to bring students together through a communal effort of growing fresh food to increase campus sustainability.
A RED ROOF: The rooftop of Gerstenzang Science Library will be the location of The Farmers club garden; a 1,000 to 2,000-square foot installation and features milk crates so that the garden can be moved during building renovations.
MERGING MARKETS: Manager of the Brandeis Farmer’s market, Gerri Cohen ’18 worked to merge the Farmer’s Market with The Farmers Club so that produce grown on campus can also be sold.
Last Tuesday night, the International Business School was bustling with students, faculty and community members from the greater Boston area who came to see the screening of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem with a special talk by human rights attorney Susan Weiss.
SILVER SCREEN: Weiss pictured with Ethan Stein ’15, who helped bring the film to campus as the UDR for the Film, Television and Interactive Media Department.
ALL THE ANSWERS: Human rights attorney Susan Weiss answered many questions after the film on her experience with the divorce process in Israel.
FILM FLYER: The Film, Television and Interactive Media Program worked with the Schusterman Center for Israel studies to screen the film before its official release.
THE MASTER MAKERS: Deis3D members, (left to right) president Eduardo Beltrame ’15, vice president Samir Undavia ’17 and faculty adviser Ian Roy ’05 (Research Technology Project Lead) hold some of the club’s 3D creations in the MakerLab.
LOUIS LOVE: Deis3D displays 3D prints of the Louis Brandeis statue that were created using a cellphone app to measure it and then transfer it to a 3D printer.
ACTING AS MENTOR: Gabriel Seltzer ’18 (top right) guides the Waltham High School team in their 3D design of a waterwheel prototype that generates energy.
TECH TALK: Members of the University of Connecticut team speak with Deis3D club founder, Noah Fram-Schwartz (top right) while a 3D printer (bottom right) is hard at work printing a piece an element of the team’s project.
At the top of the Farber Library stairs, a high-top table is lined with boxes of free Monster energy drinks and coffee dispensers. On nearby tables, 3D printers hum and whir melodically, the sound of new-age creation. Teams of three to six students huddle in separate alcoves, around computers and white boards, brainstorming big ideas and fine-tuning the mechanics necessary to print them into reality.
Last Monday in the dimly lit dining room tucked in the back of Solea Restaurant & Tapas Bar, Prof. Leslie Griffith (BIOL) stood in front of a dozen or so guests and lectured about fruit flies and human sleep.
MONTHLY MISSION: Cafe Science occurs on the first Monday of every month to engage the community in lively conversation about cutting-edge research by Brandeis scientists at Solea Restaurant and Tapas Bar on Moody Street.