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The Heller series featured Lynch‘s research on labor economics, which focuses on the relationship between employers and employees.

‘No Sound’ produces refreshing tunes

 After three albums, The Script has become an established, radio-friendly Irish rock band. Their fourth effort, No Sound Without Silence, released last Tuesday, features their usual mix of rock, pop and rhythm and blues. The band continues their successful run with another album of energetic, stadium-worthy songs with earnest lyrics.

Group works to educate on immigration issues

This past week, the Brandeis Immigration Education Initiative held Immigration Awareness Week. As a part of the week’s programming, BIEI placed cardboard figures—which the group referred to as “silhouettes”—around campus, but these installations were largely dismantled just a few days later.

Philosopher’s work remembered

Last week, the Brandeis community gathered for a two-day conference to explore the critical theory of philosopher Herbert Marcuse to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of his 1964 book, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society.

“Fishing in the Sky” reveals a new age of digitalized artwork

“Fishing in the Sky” is truly an art piece of the digital age. Located on the Lawn on D in South Boston—a recently built public entertainment space—the augmented reality art piece is available to the visitor through the use of technology. By installing a mobile application called Layer, which activates the program Skywrite AR, a viewer will be able to see art in the sky. 

ADULT PLAYGROUND: The Lawn on D features complementary installed games, such as Ping-Pong and Corn-Hole, that are open to the public to rent.

Pop Culture

Animation is not just for children anymore. While television shows directed at adults, like The Simpsons and Family Guy have been successful, animation geared toward children is drawing an older audience as well.

Center for Teaching and Learning opens, kickstarts programs

Yesterday afternoon, the Center for Teaching and Learning opened its doors to the Brandeis community for the first time, offering a space for teachers to exchange ideas and learn from each other.

EDITORIAL: Activism not vandalism

   The Brandeis Immigration Education Initiative installed a series of silhouettes last week featuring messages they hoped would spark dialogue around immigration and education issues. 

Women increase win streak to 10

On Sunday, the women’s soccer team faced its first University Athletic Association opponent in Case Western Reserve University. With the Judges riding high on a nine-game winning streak, thanks to a 5-0 win over Smith College last Tuesday, they did not seem like they would be slowing down anytime soon and came away with a 1-0 win over the visting Spartans. 

Rose Art Museum Opening

According to the Rose Art Museum website, the Collection in Focus series “highlights and draws new connections between important and often understudied objects in the museum’s collection.”

Pop Culture

Everyone loves free things. In today’s digital world, almost everything can be downloaded for free, legally or not. Sometimes, however, iTunes and other platforms offer legally free downloads to their customers.

Students perform ‘Grease’ in 24 hours

If you stopped by the Shapiro Campus Center at any point over the weekend, you would have seen 135 Brandeis students singing, hand-jiving and sleeping on any available surface.

The Rose Art Museum has received funding from two grants

This week, the Rose Art Museum announced in a press release that it has acquired two first-time grants of $100,000 each from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The former will support a new exhibition opening in September 2015, Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood, and the latter will support the activities of the Academic Projects Program.

IN DEMAND: The Canadian indie rock band, The New Pornographers perform in a concert. The band has just come out with an album, Brill Bruisers, which features multiple vocalists, cannot quite be placed in any one genre, but that is the allure.

EDITORIAL: Celebrate Rose Museum's successes

   Since his arrival at the Rose Art Museum just over two years ago, Henry and Lois Foster Director Chris Bedford has reinvigorated the museum. The Rose, which houses works from celebrated up-and-coming artists as well as well-known masterpieces, is quickly becoming more visible as one of Brandeis’s most valuable features.  

Avoid reducing complex arguments to binary language

Let me tell you about my older brother. He has been married for a little over a year now, and currently lives happily in a cozy apartment in Israel with his wife. They really love the neighborhood—it has been growing rapidly for almost 30 years, which is quite old in a country whose modern state sovereignty was only established 66 short years ago. They were both a bit nervous about moving to a new country, coming from the United States, so they were thrilled to find out that their landlord—who has lived in the community for approximately 25 years—is actually a distant cousin with whom our family has since reconnected. The community also boasts nine synagogues, five kindergartens, a community bomb shelter, basketball courts, a nationally regarded youth baseball team and a vast library. In 2007, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote a feature story on this community titled, “The Best Place to Raise Kids.” One little caveat though: the community is technically labeled an illegal settlement as it is geographically located over the 1967 green line. 

Heller hosts 55th reunion

This weekend, the Heller School for Social Policy and Management hosted its 55th reunion and conference. Two keynote addresses, a number of workshops and several panels spanned Friday and Saturday, all geared toward the alumni of the Heller School.

South African lawyer Albie Sachs, right, spoke to Brandeis students about a documentary in which he is featured.

Rose exhibitions will open on Sept 10

The Rose Art Museum will open its doors for its highly anticipated opening on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The opening will encompass the second lighting of the new permanent installation outside the entrance, “Light of Reason,” created by Chris Burden. It will also feature the unveiling of four new exhibits—one video installation, one installment of the Rose Project series, a Collection in Focus (works from the Museum’s permanent collection) and an exhibit featuring works by artist Mark Bradford. Artists Chris Burden, Mark Bradford and Magnus Plessen will be in attendance to view the openings of the exhibits featuring their works.