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Usually, when you sit down to talk with a friend, you can be sure that he or she will look you in the eye and, with no hesitation, talk about the one day that made his or her past summer so special.
Student volunteers learn to interact with those who suffer from cognitive diseases.
In February 2013, Jake Cohen ’15 and Alex Cortesi-Gesten ’15 toured a sacred temple outside of Bangalore, India. Overwhelmed by all the experience offered them, they shaved their heads and donned Buddhist monk robes as they bathed in the meditative holy waters of the temple. After being blessed, they listened to yogis speak about the mechanics of time and space and how that seamlessly meshed with the spirituality inherent in all human beings.
Jake Cohen ’15, a student of physics and mathematics, was blessed by an elephant during his study abroad term in Bangalore, India.
As a Brandeis undergraduate on the pre-med track, Nadia Hashimi ’00 didn’t imagine her professional life would turn out as it has. Literature was always something she appreciated, but it wasn’t until she’d settled into life as a doctor that she realized she could pursue writing as a second career.
How much responsibility do you have to the culture in which you live? If Brandeis students turn their heads and choose not to see what is uncomfortable, will this perpetuate a culture of ignorance within the American Jewish community?
UNIVERSAL EMOTION: Al-Quds Student Dialogue Initiative participants took turns drawing their emotions during a peace-building workshop, eliminating language barriers.
ACADEMIC PRECEDENT: Dialogue founders Catie Stewart ’16 (left) and Eli Philip ’15 (right), Al-Quds president Imad Abukishek and former president Sari Nusseibeh were instrumental in the success of the Al-Quds Peace Prize initiative.
A CIRCLE, NOT POLARITY: Students participating in the Al-Quds Dialogue initiative that took place in Israel over the summer circle up for a intercultural group discussion.
Brandeis Prof. Emeritus Allen Grossman Ph.D. ’60 (ENG) passed away in Chelsea, Mass. on Friday, June 27 at the age of 82 as a result of Alzheimer’s complications.
ACCOMPLISHED TEACHER: The late professor Grossman is the author of several volumes of critically acclaimed lyric poetry.
POET AND SCHOLAR: Professor Allen Grossman was a passionate lecturer and met with each on of his students individually.
When the chance to compete in a real-life consulting scenario involved in growing a Kenyan pig farm presented itself, business students from Brandeis and Babson College enthusiastically embraced the task. But the daunting nature of the problem quickly became evident: how can a group of university students in America devise a business model for farmers living thousands of miles away in a country most of them have never visited?
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.
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.
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.
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?