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The majority of the burden from global warming — both environmental and economic — falls to the lower classes and minorities, author and climate justice activist Wen Stephenson argued in a lecture on Thursday. Stephenson also prescribed a more radical and unified movement to combat climate change.
On Sept. 28, the University appointed Ed Marsh, the founder of a global business advising firm and an expert in marketing, to the advisory board for its new Master of Science in Digital Marketing and Design degree.
This year, the Division of the Creative Arts has reinstated the Creative Arts Award after a decade-long hiatus. Last Thursday, the Office of the Arts announced its newest recipient, soprano Tony Arnold. In conjunction with receiving the award, Arnold will serve a yearlong residency at the University, working on projects with students and faculty, lecturing and performing her own works.
As medical technology advances, 3D printing is revolutionizing the field of prosthetics, especially for children. The Brandeis Prosthetics Club is contributing to this innovative movement by printing and creating prosthetics for children, in the MakerLab of the Farber library.
A recently published study led by Prof. David Roberts (PHYS), the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Astrophysics at Brandeis, as well as researchers at the Raman Research Institute in India, offers new insights into the implications of gravitational waves predicted in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, concluding that the prevalence of these waves is much smaller than Einstein had originally predicted.
On Oct. 11, Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate Vivek Vimal ’16 and Department of Community Service Specialist Brian Quigley led a discussion about Vimal’s work to build a partnership between science programs at the University and students attending Waltham High School. The talk touched on Vimal’s own life experience and transitioned into an open discussion about science and community service.
In the coming months, the University will be focusing on the results of the recent sexual assault climate survey, energy efficiency initiatives and changes to public safety procedures, Interim University President Lisa Lynch announced at Friday’s faculty meeting.
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Women with intellectual and developmental disabilities are a very marginalized population in the world. Many U.S. states in the early 20th century prohibited women with IDD from marrying and procreating. Although they have had the legal right to reproduce since the 1970’s, there is still very little information known about mothers living with IDD or their children in the United States. This information is from a nationwide study conducted by researchers at Brandeis University and University of Massachusetts Medical School this fall.
On Sept. 16, less than four hours before he was scheduled to die, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted Richard Glossip a two-week stay of execution in order to hear more evidence about prosecutor misconduct and Glossip’s possible innocence.
“Within Community Comes Unity,” reads the slogan for the Department of Community Service at Brandeis. The unity that has been created and maintained between the students and staff of Brandeis and the people of Waltham has recently earned the University the ranking of number one college for student engagement in community service by the Princeton Review.
Prof. Eve Marder ’69 (NBIO) has been named to the inaugural class of fellows of the American Physiological Society, a group dedicated to research and publication in the biomedical field. Founded in 1887 with only 28 members, the Society now has over 10,500 members from various institutions nationwide.
The Brandeis Rooftop Community Farm will sell produce from its first harvest on campus at a farm stand in the Shapiro Campus Center on Friday. The club will also host two farmers’ markets on campus on Oct. 2 and 23.
A group of students have begun building a Brandeis-specific navigation app as part of their Justice Brandeis Semester, Voice, Mobile and Web App Development. They predict the app, called “Discover Deis,” will be completed by the end of the semester.
On Aug. 24, Her Campus ranked Brandeis University students 6th in the nation for “Social Justice Activists.” Her Campus serves as an online magazine aimed at women on college campuses across the country. More than 280 colleges and universities engage with the magazine with over 6,400 student representatives.
Over the summer, after a contentious legislative battle, the United States House of Representatives passed the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act with bipartisan support, which sought to limit states’ ability to require the labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms. The bill was a response to the efforts of many state legislatures to require companies to label GMOs on all food, which supporters say increases transparency in the food supply. Opponents respond that GMOs have been shown to have no negative health effects, and research done by William Lesser, has shown that burdensome labeling laws could increase the food expenditure of the average American family by as much as $500 per year. But while GMOs may remain a contentious issue politically, there is a broad scientific consensus over their benefits.
Now that school is back in full swing and I’m back at the pop culture game, I thought it would be fitting to start with a look at the new shows coming to a screen near you this fall. That being said, with two reboots, a spinoff and a show based on a 2002 Tom Cruise movie, some of these fall shows aren’t actually that new.
Following the tragic shooting in Charleston this summer, Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS) crowdsourced a collection of written resources about the tragedy and the context of racialized violence and oppression in American history. The full collection, called the #CharlestonSyllabus, can be found online. There are 375 works on the African American Intellectual History Society’s website—the host for the syllabus—that have been published in various media, spanning from op-Eds reacting to the Charleston shooting to critical readings about historical racial violence and discrimination.
“FA 18A: Digital Documentary Photography,” a new course this semester, combines Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) with Fine Arts, documentation and personal expression. The 15-person course has been full since August registration opened, and it will be Professor Pablo Delano’s (FA) first course at Brandeis. JustArts asked Prof. Delano to elaborate on this one-time course in an interview over email, transcribed below.
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