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(09/17/19 10:00am)
The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life has chosen disability rights activist Rebecca Cokley as the Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life for the year 2020. Funded by the Richman and Saivetz families, this fellowship — including a $25,000 award — is presented annually to an individual whose work in public service has significantly impacted society through advocating for social justice.
(09/17/19 10:00am)
A majority of elevators on campus currently have expired Certificates for Use of Elevators displayed, but Brandeis is in compliance with Massachusetts law. The state is grappling with a shortage of inspectors and a chronic backlog of elevators in need of inspection, according to a May 10 CBS Boston report.
(09/17/19 10:00am)
Students and professors gathered behind the Bassine Science Building this past Friday to search for and document various plants and animals living on campus, using the iNaturalist app to put a new twist on cataloguing their finds.
(09/17/19 10:00am)
Candidates for Waltham Mayor and the City Council answered questions about city land management issues, coinciding with the approach of preliminary elections for city government, on Sept. 15. The preliminary elections, which will be held Tuesday, are for mayor, School Committee and City Council.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
Senator for Class of 2023 (2 seats)
(09/10/19 10:00am)
Presence, a new website for Brandeis organizations, clubs, and events, launched on Aug. 31.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
Members of the Brandeis community gathered in the Slosberg Music Center on Sunday to remember Jake Sibley ’19, who died on Aug. 12.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
The University will develop a Request for Proposals program for its dining services as Sodexo’s contract with the University expires in June 2020, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Stewart Uretsky announced in an email on Aug. 26.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
An anti-Semitic discussion thread that included the names and photographs of Brandeis community members has been taken down from Vanguard News Network, a white supremacist website, as of last Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported in a Sept. 4 article.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
Director of Student Accessibility Support Beth Rodgers-Kay is retiring after 14 years at Brandeis, Dean of Academic Services Erika Smith wrote in a Sept. 6 email to the Justice. Rodgers-Kay’s last day “will be around the middle of this month,” per the email. The news has not been announced publicly to the student body.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
District Attorney Rachael Rollins, who took office in January, is alleging Boston Municipal Court Judge Richard J. Sinnott overreached his power in a case regarding the potential prosecution of counterprotesters of Boston’s “Straight Pride Parade,” according to a Boston Globe article.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
Brandeis dropped five places in this year’s U.S. News & World Report ranking of the 2020 Best National Universities, moving down to 40th place from number 35 in 2019, per the report published on Monday.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
(09/10/19 10:00am)
Brandeis alumni Caroline Cadel ’09 and Lea Winkler ’09 received the Harry S. Levitan Award for Excellence and Leadership in Education on June 6. Friends since preschool, Cadel and Winkler are now both elementary school teachers in Massachusetts.
(09/10/19 10:00am)
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies, an organization focused on bringing light to the Middle East through research, brought panelists to Brandeis to discuss current events in the Middle East for its annual kickoff event on Wednesday.
(09/03/19 10:00am)
University President Ron Liebowitz sent an email to the Brandeis community on Aug. 29 addressing the concerns and actions of the #StillConcernedStudents at the end of the spring 2019 semester.
(09/03/19 10:00am)
University President Ron Liebowitz, the Orientation Core Committee and other notable Brandeis administrators welcomed new students and their families to the University at a Convocation ceremony on Chapels Field on Sunday, Aug. 25.
(09/03/19 10:00am)
Students and faculty gathered for “Volunteerfest: A Day of Service for Brandeis and the Waltham Community,” hosted by the Departments of Community Service and Orientation.
(09/03/19 10:00am)
University officials announced that five new staff members and administrators will be joining the Brandeis community. Some have already begun their work at Brandeis, while others will arrive later into the fall semester.
(09/03/19 10:00am)
The renovation of Starr Plaza to improve campus accessibility is complete, the Office of Finance and Administration announced in an email on Thursday. Workers raised the previously circular Starr Plaza to increase access to the Irving Presidential Enclave and Bernstein-Marcus Administrative Center.