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Princeton professor presents annual Eisenbud Lectures

Brandeis’ Martin A. Fisher School of Physics of Brandeis hosted the Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics this past week. The series included three lectures given by Peter Sarnak of the Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study, who presented the research of forward thinkers in physics and mathematics on topics such as number theory and their application in other disciplines.

Professor pay trails average

Full professors at Brandeis are paid lower salaries than their equivalents at many of the University’s peer institutions, according to an annual report by the American Association of University Professors. The average full professor at Brandeis earns $130,800 a year, which is in the 60th percentile for doctoral institutions included in the study and is less than schools like Tufts University, Bentley University and Smith College. Brandeis is also one of the few schools in its peer group where average full professor salaries have decreased since the 2012 to 2013 academic year. The study conducted last year found that Brandeis professors made $131,400 on average.

‘Interstellar’ proves beautiful but plot falls short

Despite its exciting, expensive and thorough advertisement campaigns, Hollywood rarely breaks through the college bubble. Most students don’t seem terribly in touch with the film scene while on campus. But if you haven’t heard of Interstellar by now, then I have to assume you are some kind of hardcore survivalist mountain man, because this is the film on everyone’s mind and Facebook newsfeed.

Views on the News: net neutrality

On Monday, President Barack Obama entered the fight for net neutrality, the idea that all content on the Internet should be given equal loading times by Internet service providers like Comcast and Cox. Obama urged the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify broadband Internet service as a utility like water or electricity. This would allow the federal government to demand certain standards of net neutrality from all ISPs but would also give the FCC more power over these companies. Opponents of enforced net neutrality argue that it puts undue burden on businesses and intrudes on the free market. Do you believe Internet access is a right and do you support Obama’s plan to make the Internet a utility?

Education Week promotes global engagement

In celebration of International Education Week, the International Students and Scholars Office, the Study Abroad Office, the Intercultural Center and Student Activities hosted a number of programs that took place throughout last week.

Film director discusses the issue of antibiotic overuse in America

The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism screened Resistance, a 2014 documentary that discusses the evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria as a result of overusing antibiotics, on Thursday.

Market prices in question

After relocating from the Shapiro Campus Center to Olin-Sang 101 and then to Olin-Sang 116, the weekly Senate meeting started off with an announcement from Senator-at-Large Naomi DePina ’16 that it would be kept informal in order to keep discussion as productive as possible.

Professors discuss fossil fuel divestment on panel

Six Brandeis professors gave their opinions on fossil fuel divestment, described the relationship between social justice and carbon emissions, and encouraged student-led solutions to climate change at a faculty teach-in yesterday.

‘Lost Girls’ tells stories of trauma

Imagine you are coming back from a college party, and all of a sudden, you end up in a room with Sylvia Plath, a woman stuck in the 1960’s, a washed up celebrity and a deranged seven year old. Welcome to the world of Lost Girls. Written and directed by Charlie Madison ’15, the production told the story of college student Daniela. Daniela (Mira Kessler ’16) is at a fraternity party and suddenly ends up in an enclosed space from which the audience later finds out no one can get in or out. Each of the women she meets in the room has experienced something that has caused them to have gone astray, such as depression, abuse or addiction. At the end of each performance, Madison and the cast participate in a talk-back with the cast answering questions and receiving feedback about the performance which Madison describes as, “a work in progress.”

Talk focuses on interactions of medicine and art

What do medicine and art have in common?—Leeza Meksin’s exhibit Big Bounce at the Women’s Studies Research Center. On Wednesday, Damiana Andonova ’15, who is also the arts assistant at the WSRC, hosted and led an interactive discussion at the WSRC that explored how the field of medical humanities unites art and medicine. She used four of the Big Bounce pieces displayed in the WSRC to promote discussion on the topic, allowing attendants to actively share their thoughts and feelings.

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EDITORIAL: Address key issues at Trustees meeting

   This Wednesday marks the beginning of the University’s first formal Board of Trustees meeting of this academic year. This will also be the first meeting for student representatives Mohammed Sidique ’15 and Grady Ward ’16. With much to discuss, this board recommends the following issues be at the forefront of of our student representatives’ agendas and of the greater Board of Trustees’. 

Alumnus, researcher develops Ebola virus disinfectant system

A group of Massachusetts researchers at the United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, including Brandeis alumnus Dr. Christopher Doona MA ’89 Ph.D. ’91, have developed “a next-generation disinfectant system that kills the Ebola virus on surfaces,” according to an Oct. 21 Army press release.

Researchers deliver Heskel Gabbay Award lectures

Brandeis hosted the 17th annual Heskel Gabbay Award Lecture, titled “Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9,” yesterday.

Mandate foreign language education at elementary school level

In seventh grade, I started taking Spanish classes, having studied Chinese in elementary school back in China. Spanish was to be my third language. Learning English was not as difficult as learning Spanish because I started learning English at age nine, whereas I did not start Spanish until age 13. 

Biochemistry professor lectures on scientific “crackpottery”

Prof. Chris Miller (BCHM) might be a biologist by profession, but in a lecture he gave on March 3 2014 at Oxford University, he tackled a subject that he said, in the opening words of the presentation, he had wanted to study for years: scientific crackpots.

Prof. Chris Miller (BIOL) discussed issues with scientists who do not let go of theories after they are disproved.

Views on the News: Twitter lawsuit

Last Tuesday, Twitter, Inc. announced a lawsuit against the United States government, demanding the right to publicly disclose the extent of government surveillance on its user’s accounts. Twitter hopes for government statutes that prohibit the company from stating the extent of government court orders to be struck down as violations of the First Amendment. Other tech companies, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, have released their own transparency reports with government cooperation. Twitter is expected to win the case, but some question whether the lawsuit is being used as a public relations tactic to make users believe Twitter protects their privacy. Do you believe laws prohibiting public statements about government spying on social media websites are unconstitutional?

‘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.