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(03/31/15 5:05am)
As part of the 2015 Brandeis Improv Festival, Milford Graves joined a small group of fellow musicians and other attendees to speak about his experiences with musical improvisation, drumming and healing through music. The keynote address was held last Saturday afternoon in the Slosberg Recital Hall. Graves’ eclectic storytelling style illuminated the hall and captured the attention of the audience.
(03/31/15 1:11am)
The men and women’s track and field teams both competed in the Tufts Snowflake Classic at Tufts University on Saturday and had several members record top-10 finishes on a day that saw low temperatures and late March snow.
(03/24/15 6:57am)
Scot Bemis has resigned as the University’s vice president for Human Resources. He will be starting a new position as chief human resources officer at Dartmouth College on April 27, according to Dartmouth’s website.
(03/24/15 6:34am)
Within the past few years, there has emerged a global movement of fast-food workers from 33 countries demanding a living wage and better working conditions. Days after a 2014 Labor Day speech in which President Barack Obama praised the “Fight for 15” movement, thousands of fast-food workers in 150 U.S. cities walked off their jobs. Nearly 500 striking workers were arrested in sit-ins, demanding a $15 per hour minimum wage and union rights.
(03/17/15 6:23am)
Student Union Vice President Charlotte Franco ’15 announced in an email to the community on Sunday that the University will see the implementation of a new meal plan system at the beginning of the next academic year.
(03/17/15 6:16am)
Facilities worker Ricardo Rivera passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 24. He was 57.
(03/17/15 6:15am)
On Thursday, Students for Accuracy about Israeli and Palestinian Affairs hosted Judaic scholar and activist Hussein Aboubakr to speak about the “Perceptions of Israel in the Arab World.”
(03/17/15 5:44am)
Although Brandeis’ campus is just beginning to thaw out from the harsh winter, some students have been planning for the onset of spring for months. Members of the newly chartered Farmers Club are in the midst of preparations for a new rooftop farm and farmer’s market.
(03/17/15 5:17am)
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.
(03/10/15 6:44am)
The University’s International Business School has hired Micha Sabovik as the new Executive Director of Enrollment and Student Success.
(03/10/15 6:31am)
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.
(03/10/15 6:19am)
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.
(03/10/15 6:32am)
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.
(03/10/15 6:09am)
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.
(03/10/15 5:56am)
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.
(03/03/15 8:16am)
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.
(03/03/15 8:04am)
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.
(03/03/15 7:46am)
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.
(03/03/15 6:32am)
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.
(03/03/15 4:31am)
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.
