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Inspired by quidditch, a fictional sport from “Harry Potter,” quadball boasts a complex set of rules and an opportunity to get involved with a sports team in a relatively low-stakes and fun environment.
The League of Legends world championship, also known as “Worlds,” had its 15th final on Sunday, Nov. 8. The final was held in Dong’an Lake Sports Park in Chengdu with 18,000 fans in attendance and online viewership reaching a peak of 6.7 million people. The best of five series was between two South Korean teams, KT Rolster, and arguably the greatest esports team of all time, T1. While Korea is usually a favorite for Worlds each year, both teams in the final were the bottom two seeds coming into the tournament.
Prostate cancer drugs have saved countless lives, but even the best-known treatments come with a long-standing problem: They often affect far more of the body than they should. Medication meant to shut down one enzyme responsible for producing testosterone, the hormone that fuels prostate tumor growth, can end up blocking several other enzymes that have nothing to do with cancer. This broad action leads to serious side effects including liver damage and hormonal imbalance. Inside Prof. Thomas Pochapsky’s (CHEM/BCHEM) Laboratory at Brandeis University, chemical biology major Talia Lazar ’26 has spent more than a year investigating a more precise molecular approach that could eventually help avoid these complications.
CONTENT WARNING: This articles contains mentions of sexual assault and domestic abuse.
The third faculty meeting of the year convened in Rapaporte Treasure Hall on Nov. 7 with presentations from the Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration, Stewart Uretsky, and the Vice President of Development, Stephen Rodriguez on the University’s budget and Institutional Advancement, respectively. The faculty also heard four handbook amendments. Senate Chair, Prof. Jeffrey Lenowitz (POL) outlined these objectives at the start of the meeting.
When Mona Houjazy ’26 steps into the Aging, Culture, and Cognition Lab each week, she is thinking about what most of us take for granted — how we see, and how those sights remain in our memory. A neuroscience, psychology and biology major, Houjazy is investigating how subtle visual details such as sharpness and brightness affect short-term memory.
The 2025 government shutdown is now officially the longest in U.S. history, having reached 36 days on Wednesday, Nov. 5 — and there is no clear end in sight, as disagreements over allocations of government funding remain firmly gridlocked. The shutdown has innumerable consequences, not only to the daily functioning of the government but also to the wellbeing of U.S. residents. One such consequence is the potential budget cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps to provide food for low-income families and individuals. With nearly 41 million people in the United States dependent on SNAP for sufficient access to food, it is a major concern that this program may be impacted by the shutdown.
In a small classroom on a Thursday evening, a group of students gathers around a table to discuss James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues.” Among them are probation officers, district court judges and people rebuilding their lives after incarceration. They are part of a class called “Changing Lives Through Literature” taught by Prof. Sherman (ENG). It’s one of several programs under the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative (BEJI), where faculty and graduate students bring higher education beyond campus walls and into correctional and reentry spaces across the Boston area.
Brandeis University’s Economics Department has announced the creation of a new Quantitative Economics major, designed to give students a deeper grounding in mathematical and empirical methods.
Aiden Powers ’26, an undergraduate studying Applied Mathematics and Physics, spends hours and hours observing patterns too small to see with the naked eye. In the Duclos Lab, he studies how proteins behave on three-dimensional membranes and tries to decipher the rules governing how proteins organize themselves, a process critical to life at a cellular level.
Sister Dolores Jean Schmidt has been one of the most important and unique figures in men’s college basketball for her over-30-year career as team chaplain for the Loyola University Chicago Ramblers men’s basketball team. Many schools, specifically Jesuit institutions, have dedicated team chaplains who provide spiritual guidance and lead their teams in prayers before their games. Basketball powerhouses such as Gonzaga University and Marquette University participate in this practice, although their chaplains aren’t as iconic as Schmidt, who guides the Loyola Chicago Ramblers.
On Oct. 9, Brandeis Hillel held a vigil for the victims of the attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The vigil, formatted as a service, was held in Berlin chapel. Between the accounts of community members who spoke about the lives of the deceased, a number of prayers were offered to honor the deceased. A screen at the front of the chapel displayed photos of victims of October 7.
On Sept. 28, we had the opportunity to view Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie “One Battle After Another,” and listen to a panel of experts discuss the movie afterward. One of the points the panel touched on was that the “One Battle After Another” is an adaptation loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland.” The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson, a retired revolutionary suffering from overwhelming paranoia trying to raise his daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti), in seclusion, while the United States falls into disrepair around them.
Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps is undergoing various policy changes in the 2025-26 academic year. There has been confusion and speculation among the student body surrounding these changes.
On Wednesday Sept. 17 the Jewish Bund held a “Study in for Palestine” gathering in Farber Library from 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. At one large table several Bund members laid out maps of Palestine and Israel, posters naming those dead from the conflict, and a banner reading “Stop Supporting Genocide.” About 10-15 other Bund members and supporters flanked the central table and sat at adjacent tables leading toward Starbucks. At around 4:00 p.m., a small opposition of at most 10 students huddled in a circle deliberating the Bund a little more than five feet away from the table. At the time, most of the opposition appeared to be male students, some wearing religious apparel and similar white button downs and black slacks. The men did not interact with the Bund beyond standing within the vicinity of the study-in and glancing at the table.
On Thursday, Sept. 25, members of the Brandeis Jewish Bund gathered with students and community members in the Shapiro Campus Center for a “vigil to honor and remember those murdered by Israel in Palestine, Iran, Yemen and Lebanon,” according to a Sept. 24 Instagram post. The vigil’s organizers entered the atrium and established themselves at the steps, laying banners and distributing surgical masks to attendees to be used as face coverings. Six members carried in a wooden coffin covered in a keffiyah, imagery which is synonymous with Bund gatherings. Two of the Bund’s banners, which have been used in previous demonstrations, read “Stop Supporting Genocide” and “Bund” written in Yiddish. A new banner with white lettering on a black background presented, “New Year No Genocide.” This vigil intentionally occurred one day after the celebration of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
The Brandeis Board of Trustees has named Arthur Levine ’70 official president of the University at the Sept. 16 installation ceremony held in the Napoli Room at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. Joined by about 60 trustees, senior administrators and several local alumni and donors, Levine was sworn in and presented the University medallion and charter. Having served as interim president since Nov. 1 2024, following president emeritus Ron Liebowitz’ resignation, Levine has taken office as tenth president of Brandeis.
The first few weeks of the college football season have shown how even the playing field has become. We have seen historically powerful programs like the University of Notre Dame and Clemson University finding themselves with losing records. Meanwhile, more obscure football schools like the University of North Texas and the United States Naval Academy are in the conversation to be among the top 25 teams nationally. The athletes themselves are also more evenly matched; there aren’t any runaway favorites for the John Heisman award, given to the top player in college football. In recent history, the award has been given almost exclusively to quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers. That trend will seemingly continue this year, although nobody has truly separated themselves from the pack through five weeks of action. Who are the true contenders for the award and what makes this year so different?
In an email sent on Sept. 11 of this year to the Brandeis community, Brandeis Athletics announced changes to its fencing coaching staff. One of the coaches mentioned in the email was Matthew Zich. With a strong focus on sabre, Zich is entering his seventh year at Brandeis having started in January of 2019. In the upcoming 2025-26 season, Zich will continue his work on the Brandeis fencing team as a full time assistant fencing coach. This is the first time someone has been named a full time assistant fencing coach at Brandeis.