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Campus will see its very first Improvisation Festival in just a couple of weeks—from March 27 through 29. The festival—sponsored by the Brandeis Arts Council and coordinated by Prof. Tom Hall (MUS) who is serving as the festival’s artistic director—will bring artists from both inside and outside the University.
The University’s International Business School has hired Micha Sabovik as the new Executive Director of Enrollment and Student Success.
Ryan Michaud, who was previously the Community Development Coordinator for Ridgewood and Ziv Quads, will be leaving Brandeis for a position at another university, according to an email sent to residents of the two quads.
If you have ever wandered past the small, glass-encased room on the second floor of the Goldfarb Library, you will have passed by an exhibit hosted by either the Robert D. Farber Special Collections or the University Archives. The two take turns hosting these exhibits, all based on materials in the University’s collections. The exhibits have spanned topics ranging from the early days of music at the University to dime novels.
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.
This week, justArts spoke with Ra Malika Imhotep ’15, the director for the Brandeis Ensemble Theater and Brandeis Players’ production of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, about the companies’ shows this weekend.
Prof. Shantanu Jadhav (PSYC) was named one of the 126 Sloan Research Fellows of 2015 and was awarded a $50,000 grant to explore memory and decision-making processes in mammalian brains.
Kerry Guerard has been appointed as the new director of the Department of Student Rights and Community Standards, according to a Feb. 20 press release from the Office of Communications.
EDITOR'S NOTE: An abridged version of this editorial was published in our print edition, due to space constraints. The full editorial is published here.
The Psychological Counseling Center has added volunteer student representative positions to its team as a part of a greater initiative to improve outreach to the Brandeis community. Emily Kurtz ’15, Anna Grandis ’17 and Leah Friend ’17 are currently serving in these roles.
Saturday night in Slosberg Music Center, the Brandeis Concert Series hosted a recital by the Solar Winds Quintet. The quintet performed pieces all composed by women, which is the theme for the concert series this year.
The men and women’s track and field teams traveled to the University of Chicago for the University Athletic Association championships last weekend and picked up a pair of medals in the process.
Brandeis Department of Athletics Department Administrator Vanessa Cox was killed in a car accident on Thursday night in New Hampshire. She was 31.
In 1939, during the siege of Poland, Adolph Hitler gave a speech expressing his right to exterminate the Polish. He justified mass murder thusly: “I have placed my death-head formations in readiness—for the present only in the East—with orders to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
If you have ever been to North Carolina, then you have been to a state that once held the name “Klansville, U.S.A.” Nicknamed “Klansville” for its overwhelming Ku Klux Klan membership, North Carolina became a state whose Klan population surprisingly outnumbered those in all the other southern states combined.
I am a senior at Brandeis University, grateful for the privilege to study in Waltham for three and a half years to date. At first, I was hesitant to join the Brandeis community—I never visited before arriving (late) for orientation my first year and did not bother attending most of the “mandatory” orientation programming.
At the Board of Trustees’ meeting on Wednesday, the Board discussed issues of free speech on campus, the forthcoming draft of a financial and strategic plan and online education, according to a draft statement from undergraduate representatives Mohamed Sidique ’15 and Grady Ward ’16.
The men and women’s swimming and diving teams completed a sweep of Bridgewater State University on Senior Day this past Saturday. During their final home meet of the season, the men won 157-97 while the women walked away with a 160-125 victory, the squad’s first home victory of the season.
Following the leak of faculty emails from the restricted “Concerned” Listserv this past summer and University President Frederick Lawrence’s response to the comments in a July 28, 2014 statement, some faculty members have expressed concerns regarding freedom of speech on campus.
The Albert Einstein Society has selected Stanley Deser, the Ancell Professor of Physics, Emeritus, along with Charles Misner of the University of Maryland, to receive the prestigious Einstein Medal for their work on Einstein’s theory of general relativity, according to a Jan. 14 BrandeisNOW press release.