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The search for a new superintendent for the Waltham Public Schools District has officially been narrowed down to four candidates, according to a Jan. 23 Patch Waltham article.
The Center for German and European Studies partnered with Germany’s cultural institute, the Goethe Institut, to take part in a worldwide screening of Claude Lanzmann’s 9.5 hour documentary, Shoah (1985), on Monday. The screening, held on Holocaust Remembrance Day, fell on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the 35th anniversary of the documentary’s debut, according to the Institut.
An “attack” on the University’s network caused a campus-wide internet outage on Jan. 20, affecting various systems and services beginning about 12 p.m. that day, according to a Jan. 20 email to the Brandeis community from Chief Information Officer Jim La Creta.
Lisa Lynch will depart from her role as provost and executive vice-president of Academic Affairs by this summer, according to a Jan. 21 email to the Brandeis community from University President Ron Liebowitz. Lynch first stepped into the role in June 2016. According to the email, Lynch will be taking a year- long sabbatical and will then return to Brandeis to continue in her position as the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Liebowitz wrote in the email that the process for selecting the next Provost will be announced shortly. The email did not specify why Lynch was stepping down.
Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center scholar Pam Swing and undergraduate Elizabeth Dabanka ’20 discussed their play “I Want to Go to Jail,” which is based on the 1919 picketing of the Massachusetts State House by women’s suffrage advocates during the WSRC-sponsored event “Writing a Suffragist Play in 2019,” on Thusday.
María Durán, a Florence Levy Kay Fellow in U.S. Latinx Cultural Studies, delivered a presentation on Wednesday discussing her research project on Mexican-American literature, otherwise known as Chicana/o literature. Durán said that through her research, she aims to explore “alternative narratives to grief,” meaning looking at how grief is perceived through non-Western cultures.
Prof. Sabine von Mering (GRALL, ENVS), a longtime climate activist, was arrested on Dec. 8 for blocking a freight train carrying coal to Merrimack Station, the largest remaining coal power plant in New England, according to New Hampshire Public Radio.
Writer, Boston College professor and art collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi spoke about how modern art from the Middle East interacts with politics during a talk on Wednesday hosted by the Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
In a celebration full of music and laughter as well as reflection and remembrance, members of the Brandeis community recognized the University’s 14th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, entitled “Unapologetic Love & Light,” in the Carl J. Shapiro Campus Center Theatre Monday night. Dean of Students Jamele Adams emceed the event and performed his own spoken word poetry.
Mitch Albom ’79, best-selling author of “Tuesdays with Morrie,” gave a talk on Thursday about his newest boom, the memoir “Finding Chika.”
The University added caste to its list of protected criteria under its non-discrimination and harassment policy, President Ron Liebowitz announced in an email to the community on Dec. 17.
Waltham is now officially considered a “bicycle-friendly community” by the League of American Bicyclists, after receiving the award of “Bronze” in their 2019 awards, according to a Jan. 14 Patch Waltham article.
Troia Reyes-Stone ’17 is one of this year’s recipients of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, per a Dec. 9 BrandeisNOW article. She will pursue a master’s degree at Oxford University, where she plans to research the war on drugs and addiction treatment.
The University’s Board of Trustees held a retreat on Nov. 18 and 19 to discuss ongoing plans for Brandeis’ future. According to a December email to the community from Brandeis President Ron Liebowitz, the main topics the Board discussed were infrastructure improvements, Brandeis’ brand positioning among other higher education institutions and how the University has responded to the negative results of the recently administered Campus Climate Survey.
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The Senate met on Sunday for its first meeting of the semester, where senators discussed a new attendance policy, and Class of 2021 Senator Jake Rong stepped down.
2020 Gittler Prize awarded to racial stress, trauma expert
After denouncing recent “violence towards members of the Jewish community” in an email to the Brandeis community on Jan. 3, University President Ron Liebowitz shared that there would be an increase in police presence and surveillance on campus.
Joining the rest of the campus community and beginning their Brandeis journeys, midyear members of the class of 2023 will move onto campus on Jan. 10. But with the number of midyears this year, the question has turned to where incoming students will live this spring.
Academic Services held meet and greets for three finalists in the University’s search for a new director of Student Accessibility Support. The first meeting was with Christopher “Chip” Kennedy on Nov. 26, the second was with Andrea Vassar on Dec. 4 and the third was with Catherine Dugan on Dec. 9.