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Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps is holding classes that cover cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Stop the Bleed and overdose prevention this spring semester. Participating in one of these multi-hour courses will count for one credit of the Brandeis Health, Wellness and Life Skills core requirement.
This past November, two cases were filed against Germany’s federal government. One, occurring on Nov. 15, 2023, claimed that a leftover €60 billion of COVID-19 relief money had been wrongfully repurposed as climate relief money. On Nov. 30, 2023, a different case claimed that the German government had not met the demands outlined in its Federal Climate Protection Act. Both cases ruled in favor of the group challenging the German government, displaying the complexities involved in Germany’s climate response.
In honor of Black History Month, the University announced a series of events to recognize the contributions of the Black community to the United States. In a Feb. 1 email, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs Lauren Haynie and Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lee Bitsóí acknowledged the significance of Black History Month and previewed the various ways in which the University plans to celebrate.
“I am [Brandeis National Committee]’s biggest cheerleader because I am Brandeis’ biggest cheerleader,” Beth Bernstein MA ’90 said in a Feb. 2 interview with The Justice. For the past 33 years, Bernstein has been an central part of the BNC, an organization that has been around as long as the University itself.
On Dec. 7, 2023, a hit-and-run crash took place on Totten Paul Road in Waltham. This accident caused the deaths of National Grid employee Roderick Jackson and Waltham police officer Paul Tracey.
On Feb. 2, sewage water flooded the first floor suites and basement of Ziv 129, damaging both University property and students’ personal property. Affected students were forced to act quickly to try and save personal belongings from the flood.
This Monday, Newton students are back in their classrooms following a 15-day strike and a hard-fought four-year educator contract between the Newton Teachers Association, Newton School Committee and Mayor Ruthanne Fuller. This teachers strike was the sixth of its kind in Massachusetts since 2022 — it is also the largest and longest strike, impacting a total of 12,000 students from 22 Newton schools.
Hidden within the foundation of the Rabbs Graduate Center, the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab remains a secret from many Brandeis students as they ascend the Rabb steps. Inside what looks like a typical hall of a research building, researcher Vivekanand Pandey Vimal Ph.D. ’17 dedicates his time in the lab on unraveling the mysteries of spatial disorientation.
To most people, an “invisibility cloak” sounds like something straight out of a fantasy series. For Dr. Nathan Cohen ’77, however, the reality of his project is potent. Since Cohen first invented the cloak in 2003, the military potential of the invisibility cloak has been an unavoidable truth. In fact, just last week Russia unveiled plans to use cloaking technology as a part of its invasion of Ukraine. Today, Cohen has a staggering 16 cloaking-related patents and a total of 93 United States patents, including one for a mechanism able to detect cloaked items.
Election results for the Student Union were released on the morning of Jan. 29 by the Student Union Secretary Carol S. Kornworcel. Many seats were available for senators, Allocation Board members, co-treasurers, and associate justice positions.
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On Jan. 24, the Department of Community Living sent an email to Brandeis students regarding the housing selection process for the 2024-25 academic year. Applications are officially open and due Feb. 14 at 12.
Since Jan. 19, the Newton Teachers Association has been on strike with increasing pressure to return students to school as soon as possible. 98% of NTA’s members voted to strike after reaching an impasse in contract negotiations with the Newton School Committee. Every day, union members march outside City Hall along with students, parents, community members and fellow educators from neighboring school districts. Due to Massachusetts law prohibiting public employees from striking, hefty fines are lodged against the NTA, starting at $25,000 on the first day and doubling with each subsequent day. As of Jan. 26, fines amassed to $375,000 for canceling six consecutive school days. A Middlesex judge ruled that fines will continue at a lowered rate of $50,000 for every day past Jan. 28 if a deal is not reached.
This past weekend, Brandeis hosted its seventh annual DeisHacks, a competition intended to come up with ideas to better improve the business models of local nonprofits. The “hackathon” worked with local nonprofits and organizations to seek to provide more opportunities for the groups. Some of the groups included Brandeis-alumni-founded Project Insulin, the Boston-area Jewish Education Program and the Brandeis International Business School. The competition commenced on Friday, Jan. 26 and ended on Sunday, Jan. 28.
On Jan. 17, President Ron Liebowitz sent out an email regarding the ongoing debate on free expression on campus. In order to enable “respectful discourse” and learn “from various perspectives,” Liebowitz will be appointing a task force to review the University’s Principles of Free Speech and Free Expression. Previous measures to promote free speech on campus include several faculty panels and a day-long teach-in. “The creation of a task force on free expression has been the subject of a motion passed by the faculty and I have solicited input from the Faculty Senate Council on nominations for task force membership,” Liebowitz wrote.
In October 2021, Brandeis alum Eric Moyal ’17, M.A. ’18, M.S. ’22 founded the nonprofit Project Insulin. He first thought of the idea when he learned from his partner, who has Type 1 Diabetes, about the patent of insulin recently expiring after being unchanged for 30 years.
On the morning of Thursday, Jan. 18, New Hampshire stood five days out from the Jan. 23 New Hampshire Presidential Primary. In the small town of Hollis, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, pitched her campaign to a crowd of approximately 250 New Hampshirites and the press. Hollis, which borders Massachusetts, is a 50 minute drive from the University, making it one of the closest events she has held to Brandeis’ campus. Prior to announcing her run for the presidency, Nikki Haley was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Trump, a role in which she gained a reputation for her tough style and stalwart support of Israel.
On Jan. 21, current Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced on X that he was ending his Republican campaign for the presidential election. The governor referenced his second-place win in the Iowa Caucus, winning 21.1% of the vote, trailing behind former president Donald Trump’s 51%, according to The Associated Press. DeSantis said that he and his team looked for ways to proceed with the campaign, but to no avail. “If there was anything I could do to produce a favorable outcome — more campaign stops, more interviews — I would do it,” DeSantis told his followers.
On Jan. 18, author Curtis Chin visited the Mandel Humanities Center to give a talk on his first book and memoir “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.” The memoir, published in October 2023, details Chin’s experience and challenges growing up as an Asian American, queer man in Detroit. He was a first-generation college student at the University of Michigan as a creative writing major.
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