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Last year, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences introduced a new program—the Master of Arts in Comparative Humanities, which “explores major themes of human experience using comparative and cross-cultural approaches,” according to the description on the MACH website.
On Sept. 21, several disparate groups of environmentalists descended on New York City for the People’s Climate March. Their one unifying theme was predictable and clear: the nefarious, corrupt and morally bankrupt boogeyman that is capitalism was to blame for the world’s environmental and climate change problems.
This week, justArts spoke with Alex Hall ’15, this year’s coordinator for the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum.
Prof. Andrew Koh (CLAS) has managed to combine his knowledge of science and passion for ancient history.
When I applied to Brandeis, I applied because it met a set of criteria that I was pursuing: a respected liberal arts school, with a small student-to-professor ratio, academically strong in my areas of interest that regularly accepts students with my high school grade point average and course rigor. It was not very different from many of the other schools on my list, and it didn’t have to be. When I got my acceptance letter, I went on an overnight program on campus, as I did for most of the other colleges that accepted me. I liked my overnight at Brandeis the best, and on that criteria, chose to enroll.
In February 2013, Jake Cohen ’15 and Alex Cortesi-Gesten ’15 toured a sacred temple outside of Bangalore, India. Overwhelmed by all the experience offered them, they shaved their heads and donned Buddhist monk robes as they bathed in the meditative holy waters of the temple. After being blessed, they listened to yogis speak about the mechanics of time and space and how that seamlessly meshed with the spirituality inherent in all human beings.
The Indian Institute of Science has been a public-private entity in India since 1899, funded by both the government and private philanthropists.
On August 11, a World Health Organization panel found that, in order to combat the current Ebola crisis in West Africa, it may be ethical for doctors to use “unproven interventions with as yet unknown efficacy and adverse effects.” This decision comes in the midst of the most deadly Ebola outbreak since the disease’s discovery; at least 1900 people have died in the past six months, according to Doctors Without Borders. The controversy surrounding the administration of the experimental drug ZMapp to seven patients, two of whom have since died of Ebola, spurred the WHO to provide ethical guidance. Do you agree with the WHO’s decision that it is ethical under certain circumstances to use experimental drugs on Ebola patients?
On Friday afternoon, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Eric Chasalow announced in a campus-wide email that Jessica Basile Ph.D. ’98 is now serving as the director of graduate student affairs and post-doctoral scholars.
My grandfather was a member of the first four-year graduating class of Brandeis University. For as long as I can remember, he told me stories about his fond memories of his time in Waltham. Beyond the welcoming Brandeis family and friends, he highlights the quality and integrity of the professors on campus as a focal point of his experience.
SINGING AS ONE: On Friday night, performers from Howl at the Moon (a national piano bar) came to the Shapiro Science Center for an interactive concert.
This summer, University President Frederick Lawrence sent a public letter to the faculty which, in the emotive force of its condemnation, evoked Émile Zola’s “J’Accuse…!”, the famous 1898 public letter on the Dreyfus affair. Only Zola was meticulous in writing exactly what he deplored and why.
“Where else can you go from ‘F You’ to ‘Let it Go’ in one song?” one of the Howl at the Moon performers shouted to the audience while diving into the celebrated song from the recent Disney hit, Frozen. But on Friday night in the Shapiro Science Center, the sudden change from the pop/hip-hop song to the lyrical Disney tune seemed absolutely normal and even encouraged by the audience.
In order to promote interdisciplinary undergraduate research in the sciences, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded one million dollars to Prof. Jané Kondev (PHYS) in June.
Prof. Jane Kamensky (HIST) has left the University after serving as a professor at Brandeis for 20 years. Prof. David Engerman (HIST) took over as chair for the History department in her stead.
Prof. Eric Chasalow (MUS), a former chair of the Music department, replaced Prof. Mick Watson (PSYC) as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in July, according to a BrandeisNOW article posted on July 1. Watson retired in June after dedicating 37 years as a Brandeis faculty member, four of those as dean.
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Provost Steve Goldstein ’78 will leave the University after this academic year and will facilitate in the hiring of a new provost. Goldstein will have served about four years at the University upon his departure.
With the 2014 commencement ceremony now behind us, this board would like to express sincere gratitude to the newest alumni of the Justice, who have each contributed to the paper immensely over the past few years. We wish you all tremendous success in the future and look forward to covering your future accomplishments.
The Candy Crush Saga mobile app, in which players match colored candies with one another, is simple enough for a preschooler to play. Inconceivably, the app has been recently valued at $7.6 billion according to a March 12 New York Times article. Why is a mind-numbingly boring task so addictive to the human brain?