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(10/08/19 10:00am)
The deadline to apply for the position of superintendent of the Waltham school district passed this week, on Friday, Oct. 4, according to an Oct. 4 Waltham Patch article. The school committee is set to review the applications in the upcoming week, and interviews for the position will begin four days after the review is complete.
(10/08/19 10:00am)
One of the two University graduate students stabbed on Sept. 23 has been released from the hospital and the other “is recovering well” according to a Sept. 26 email sent to the Brandeis community by University President Ron Liebowitz.
(10/08/19 10:00am)
The Board of Trustees met on Sept. 16 and 17 to discuss its plans for the 2019-2020 academic year. University President Ron Liebowitz sent an email Thursday to the Brandeis community with a summary of the meeting.
(09/24/19 10:00am)
Former Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank Janet Yellen cautioned against the deregulation of governmental oversight of banks in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, as well as the politicization of the Federal Reserve during a speech Saturday to a crowd of International Business School alumni and other community members.
(09/24/19 10:00am)
Brandeis community members joined thousands of other individuals in the Boston Climate Strike on Friday to demand climate justice. Over 600,000 people marched across the United States and 4 million people marched around the world in hundreds of similar climate strikes.
(09/24/19 10:00am)
Sexual harassment can create an uncomfortable work environment in any profession, and the medical field is no exception. With the number of women enrolled in United States medical schools exceeding the number of men enrolled for the first time in 2017 and then again in 2018, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges, research is being conducted to learn more about how women are treated in the medical profession.
(09/24/19 10:00am)
Brandeis and Waltham Police officers responded to an emergency call at 1:37 a.m. Monday morning and found two Brandeis graduate students who had been stabbed repeatedly on Wheelock Road. The victims were transported to different nearby hospitals and are “expected to survive,” according to a press release put out by the Waltham Police Department.
(09/24/19 10:00am)
Prof. John Wilmes (MATH) used the money that he won from the Wellington Prize to pursue his dream of seeing sloths in the Amazon Rainforest, according to a Sept. 16 BrandeisNOW article. The Wellington Prize winner is randomly selected at the end of each year.
(09/24/19 3:18pm)
Faculty, staff and students convened in Rapaporte Treasure Hall on Thursday for a talk by Stuart Eizenstat, the former U.S. ambassador to the European Union and White House domestic affairs advisor to President Jimmy Carter, about his book “President Carter: The White House Years.”
(09/24/19 10:00am)
University President Ron Liebowitz, along with the presidents of 42 other Massachusetts colleges and universities, signed a letter addressing the members of the state’s Congressional delegation expressing frustrations with immigration policies that have hampered international students’ ability to study and work in the United States.
(09/24/19 10:00am)
The Senate convened for its weekly meeting on Sunday, during which members discussed the Board of Trustees and listened to IfNotNow’s presentation for probationary status.
(09/24/19 10:00am)
The city of Waltham had its preliminary elections for mayor on Tuesday, according to a Sept. 17 Waltham Patch article.
(09/24/19 10:00am)
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
(09/17/19 10:00am)
The Senate convened on Sunday for its first meeting of the 2019-20 school year, during which they discussed Union logistics, swore in newly elected senators and confirmed Senate and Executive Board positions. Student Union Vice President Guillermo Caballero ’20 explained that after the roll call, the Senate would normally debate whether to charter new clubs or grant other club requests. However, he acknowledged that many senators were tired after going through hours of training at the Union retreat earlier that day. Caballero decided to push club-related business to next week’s meeting. He announced that next week, IfNotNow would present to the Senate for probationary status.
(09/17/19 10:00am)
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
(09/17/19 10:00am)
In a ruling that found Johnson & Johnson guilty of fueling the opioid crisis in the state of Oklahoma, a state judge cited University Prof. Andrew Kolodny (Heller). Kolodny's work at the University on addiction made him the prosecution’s star witness, The Courthouse News Service reports. As a result of this seven-week civil trial, Johnson & Johnson is now forced to pay the state of Oklahoma $572 million, per an Aug. 26 article in STAT News.
(09/17/19 10:00am)
Students entering the University starting in Fall 2019 will be required to take courses in line with the Brandeis Core, the University’s newly designed educational curriculum. The Brandeis Core was designed to showcase the University’s “academic rigor, robust debate, diversity and justice,” according to the Brandeis Core Website.
(09/17/19 10:00am)
Brandeis students will join millions of other activists in walking out of classrooms and workplaces on Friday as part of the Global Climate Strike, an international call for climate justice. Attendees will include members of Brandeis Climate Justice, a coalition dedicated to pressuring the University administration to divest from fossil fuel stocks, as well as promoting climate education and activism, including direct action like the strike.
(09/17/19 10:00am)
Seventeen Student Union positions were filled on the Senate and Allocations Board in the first round of Union elections this academic year, which took place this Wednesday.
(09/17/19 10:00am)
Massachusetts residents face an increased risk of contracting mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis through the end of this month, the Division of Student Affairs warned in a Sept. 11 email. The University encourages people to take precautions to lessen the chance of being bitten during peak mosquito season, which occurs in August and September.