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Each March, the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade draws large crowds of local residents, tourists and college students to one of the city’s most well-known celebrations. The parade, held this year on March 16, is a cultural tradition, neighborhood event and citywide social gathering.
The options for first-year dorms can vary from location to location, but one common factor is the presence of some type of lounge or common room. North Quad’s Scheffres Hall and Gordon Hall have the Polaris Lounge. Massell Quad’s Shapiro Hall also has the Shapiro Lounge, affectionately dubbed the “Schlounge.” These spaces play an important role in a students’ lifestyle as well as give first-years a starting point for their college experience. However, it’s possible that they’ve fallen under disrepair and misuse.
Last Saturday, the Levin Ballroom transformed into a space for performance, celebration and reflection as the Brandeis Asian American Student Association hosted its annual celebration: Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Opening Showcase, or APAHM. This year’s event, themed “Wherever the Wind Takes Us,” brought together food, dance, music and community for a night that centered not only on cultural representation, but on the question of what it means to build a home across distance and change.
The United States’ celebration of Women’s History Month dates back to 1987 when Congress first passed it into legislation, coinciding with International Women’s Day on March 8. March has been proclaimed Women’s History Month by every president since 1987 and has been given an annual theme by the National Women’s History Alliance. 2026’s theme is, “Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future.”
Lunar New Year is a special holiday across many East Asian cultures that celebrates the new year according to the Lunisolar calendar: a year that uses both moon cycles and seasons to track months. Here at Brandeis, celebrations of Lunar New Year take many forms across several cultural clubs, but the one thing they share is a mission of bringing people together.
Across four days from Feb. 25 through March 1, the Brandeis Black Student Organization hosted its annual Black Homecoming, a celebration of Black identity and culture. The organization divided programming into distinct spaces: “Talk About It,” a Blackout party, “The Enchanted Forest Gala,” and the BLK Homecoming Showcase, titled “Tailored In Black: A Living Revolution.” Each event targeted a different part of campus life, from structured dialogue to public recognition to artistic performance.
On the edge of Brandeis University’s campus, sits the Kniznick Gallery, located within the Women’s Studies Research Center. Each year, the gallery hosts an exhibition organized by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, a research institute dedicated to promoting scholarship at the intersection of Jewish studies and Women’s and Gender Studies.
Last semester, if you attended the Brandeis Rose Art Museum and walked down the stairs to the left, you’d find a porcelain-colored room illuminated by soft minimalist lighting. Around the museum, paintings carefully placed on white walls made the room seem less empty, perhaps even less lonely. Various skillfully painted women surrounded me and each painting looked like it was from a world of its own.
Prostate cancer drugs have saved countless lives, but even the best-known treatments come with a long-standing problem: They often affect far more of the body than they should. Medication meant to shut down one enzyme responsible for producing testosterone, the hormone that fuels prostate tumor growth, can end up blocking several other enzymes that have nothing to do with cancer. This broad action leads to serious side effects including liver damage and hormonal imbalance. Inside Prof. Thomas Pochapsky’s (CHEM/BCHEM) Laboratory at Brandeis University, chemical biology major Talia Lazar ’26 has spent more than a year investigating a more precise molecular approach that could eventually help avoid these complications.
When Mona Houjazy ’26 steps into the Aging, Culture, and Cognition Lab each week, she is thinking about what most of us take for granted — how we see, and how those sights remain in our memory. A neuroscience, psychology and biology major, Houjazy is investigating how subtle visual details such as sharpness and brightness affect short-term memory.
In a small classroom on a Thursday evening, a group of students gathers around a table to discuss James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues.” Among them are probation officers, district court judges and people rebuilding their lives after incarceration. They are part of a class called “Changing Lives Through Literature” taught by Prof. Sherman (ENG). It’s one of several programs under the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative (BEJI), where faculty and graduate students bring higher education beyond campus walls and into correctional and reentry spaces across the Boston area.
On Oct. 30, President Donald J. Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, where they successfully “agreed on almost everything,” leaving Trump pleasantly rating their meeting at a “twelve out of ten.” Amidst growing political tensions that have been deteriorating since the beginning of United States-China relations, China’s decision to pause its curbs on rare earth mineral exports for one year and Trump’s lowering of tariffs has alleviated some pressures in both their economies.
With a creaking noise and a stutter, the elevator door of the Ziv 127 residence building is anything but a smooth ride. Stepping in, the door lags to a close. Pressing the button to the fourth floor, just above the keys is the proof of inspection. This is not unordinary: Every elevator in the state of Massachusetts is required to display their inspection certificate.
Aiden Powers ’26, an undergraduate studying Applied Mathematics and Physics, spends hours and hours observing patterns too small to see with the naked eye. In the Duclos Lab, he studies how proteins behave on three-dimensional membranes and tries to decipher the rules governing how proteins organize themselves, a process critical to life at a cellular level.
Hannah Bookbinder ’95 consolidated her 25 years of experience guiding neurodivergent individuals as an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and executive functioning coach in an accessible and streamlined app, My TOAD. Bookbinder is the founder of AcademicAlly, an academic coaching and college preparation service that also provides support to individuals who are struggling with executive dysfunction.
When I think of aluminum, I picture chutney sandwiches wrapped in a delightfully crunchy silver foil that came with the added benefit of being squishable into balls that made recess more fun. Or, I hear the pop of soda cans opening before a big game and the clink of a spoon against a thermos while camping. What doesn’t come to mind at all are the vast, rust-colored lakes of industrial waste left behind during our utilitarian friend’s production, a substance known as red mud.
Along Main Street in Waltham, just a few miles past the center of the city, sits a house that doesn’t quite fit with the rest of the neighborhood. It’s large and made completely of brick. The windows on each side are symmetrical, adorned with white trim. The Federalist-style home surrounded by acres of land was perfectly suitable for the federalist that inhabited it: Christopher Gore.