Sara Brande ’15 holds office hours for TransBrandeis in the new Gender and Sexuality Center in the Usdan Student Center.
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Ease your mind
Brandeis students are more likely to be stressed, depressed or anxious than students from similarly sized universities across the nation, according to the National College Health assessment conducted last year. This survey also revealed that Brandeis students participate in more extracurricular activities and tend to feel lonelier.

Joy Von Steiger is the clinical director at the Psychology Counseling Center.
10 questions for Rani Neutill
Prof. Rani Neutill (ENG) was recently appointed the interim sexual assault services and prevention specialist, to take over the responsibilities of Shelia McMahon while McMahon is on leave. Her background in both rape counseling and in women and gender studies will inform her during her time in this position. She recently talked to the Justice regarding her new role, her research and the film class she is teaching this semester.

Rani Neutill (ENG) has a unique merging of skills as both as an academic and a certified rape crisis counselor.


An afternoon with the future provost
“This isn’t where I thought I was going to be, looking back just four months ago,” remarked Lisa Lynch, reflecting on her recent appointment to become the next University provost.
Lynch brings a combination of field experience, as well as academic and administrative expertise to the provost position.
The Heller series featured Lynch‘s research on labor economics, which focuses on the relationship between employers and employees.
Bringing lax back
In 2012, when Eric Haavind-Berman ’15 and James Hayward ’16 arrived on campus, Haavind-Berman as a transfer and Hayward as a first- year, they were disappointed to find that their favorite sport, lacrosse, did not have a club team. Haavind-Berman and Hayward both played lacrosse in high school and wished to continue in college. Hoping to find a few players to join them on the field, they put up flyers around campus.
Eric Haavind-Berman ’15 (right) and James Hayward ’16 competing at Saturday’s lacrosse practice
Igor Berman ’17 joined club lacrosse in the spring of 2014.
Eric Haavind-Berman ’15 (left) and James Hayward ’16 are co-captians of the club lacrosse team.
Books, not rockets
It was July 2014 in the North End of Boston when Ohad Elhelo ’16 received devastating news from his home country of Israel. During a secretive mission part of a military operation called Operation Protective Edge, 13 soldiers and officers from his former unit in the Israel Defense Forces died in an explosion on a road planted with mines.

Elhelo, an active Israel Defense Forces reserve officer, spoke to a crowd of 3,000 people at a pro-Israel rally in August 2014.

Ohad Elhelo ’16 (left) is pictured with a fellow soldier as he was serving as an itelligence officer in a special unit of the Israel Defense Forces.

Elhelo spoke at the City Hall in Boston about his experience serving in a two-week special operation.

President Frederick Lawrence is a board member on Elhelo’s new humanitarian organization called Our Generation Speaks.