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(10/13/20 10:00am)
This past summer, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, three University students who participated in the Perlmutter Fellowship at the Brandeis International Business School worked together to create the Perlmutter App. They combined their interests of technology, business and social justice to create an app that would help organizations who were negatively affected by the outbreak.
(10/06/20 10:00am)
In the first Student Union meeting of the semester, Union members discussed de-charters, appointed members of the Executive Board and shared their goals for the upcoming semester over Zoom.
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State health officials announced Thursday that the city of Boston was given the “red” status for COVID-19 cases, along with the cities of Worcester and Springfield, according to an NBC Boston article. The red status denotes a positive test rate of greater than eight cases per 100,000 population per day. According to the map on the University’s COVID-19 dashboard, last updated Sept. 30, the city of Boston has an average of nine cases per 100,000 population per day.
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Dr. Samuel Myers, the Director of the Planetary Health Alliance and the Principle Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, spoke to the Brandeis community at an online event on Friday, Sept. 25 about his newly published book, “Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves.” Prof. Charles Chester (ENVS) hosted the talk.
(10/06/20 10:00am)
The Institute for Behavioral Health at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management created the Brandeis Opioid Policy Research Collaborative, with principal investigator Cindy Parks Thomas. BORC is a resource for information about opioid use disorder and the opioid epidemic in the United States.
(10/06/20 10:00am)
In early September, the University launched VoteDeis, a campus coalition dedicated to encouraging students to register and vote in upcoming elections. The coalition is composed of faculty, students and staff members. They help people register and make a plan to vote, share stories of why community members vote and provide links to voting resources, all of which can be found on the VoteDeis website.
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(09/22/20 10:00am)
COVID-19, which disproportionately affects communities of color and especially Black and Latinx communities, has further amplified and exposed racial disparities that the United States was built on. Black Americans today face the brunt of police violence in the time of COVID-19. George Floyd is an example of this — he died with COVID-19 antibodies in his blood, surviving infection only to die as a result of police brutality, according to an article from The New York Times.
(09/22/20 10:00am)
In response to the impending threat of climate change, corporations, governments and universities have released plans to reverse its effects before the Earth is irreparably damaged. In recent years, the University has created and tracked various sustainability goals, including more efficient lighting and more thorough waste disposal procedures; however, COVID-19 health protocols have influenced some new sustainability measures at Brandeis.
(09/22/20 10:00am)
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg H’96, the second woman to ever serve on the United States Supreme Court, died of pancreatic cancer on Sept. 18 at the age of 87. Ginsburg spoke to the Brandeis community in 2016, celebrating the centennial of Justice Louis Brandeis being nominated to the Supreme Court. In this ceremony, entitled “Louis D. Brandeis, The Supreme Court and American Democracy,” Ginsburg talked about the lessons that she learned from Justice Brandeis. In this speech, she mentioned that although she did not agree with all of the decisions Brandeis made during his time on the Supreme Court, she did admire his methodology at the bar.
(09/22/20 10:00am)
Sodexo will continue to serve as the University’s food service vendor until June 2022, under a new contract that is currently being finalized. This new two-year contract is a departure from the University’s pre-pandemic plan to sign a longer-term contract following a Request for Proposals process, which would have potentially replaced Sodexo with one of three other dining contractors.
(09/22/20 10:00am)
The debate for the second round of delayed spring 2020 Student Union elections was held over Zoom on Sept. 14. Union Secretary Taylor Fu ’21 led the event, and students discussed platforms for a collection of positions not covered in the first round of elections. Election results for this second round were released this past Thursday.
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On July 25, 2020, the United States celebrated the 30th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA protects people with disabilities by prohibiting discriminatory behaviors against them in workplaces, government entities and private entities that are open to public accommodation (such as Brandeis). In 2008, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act passed, expanding the definition of “disability.” Although we as a country have come a long way in terms of disability rights, there are many areas in which Brandeis’ campus and its culture are not up to par.
(09/15/20 10:00am)
Students and faculty met in a virtual assembly to discuss the ways that Brandeis and other higher education institutions are implicated in the continuation of racism, racist practices and racist policies. The assembly, hosted by graduate students of the Sociology Department on Sept. 9, was facilitated by Ph.D. students Sneha Gantla and Lauren Crosser.
