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FINDING THE MONEY: Brandeis can now award money it receives from the National Science Foundation to students with innovative ideas.
STUDENT INVENTORS: Leana Silverberg ’18 tells students that they will fail in the path to innovative success but must “keep on moving.”
AMBITIOUS GOALS: Eli Wasserman ’20 hopes his new club will spark an interest in international relations among students.
To know the Brandeis University community is to know how passionate its students are about learning. Perhaps this trait is most visible in the wide variety of student-run clubs and organizations that collectively function to inform the public about the most pressing current issues. The newly-founded Brandeis Society for International Affairs seeks to find its place among the array of politically focused clubs on campus.
Jasmine Purnell ’20 spoke about her transition to Brandeis in an interview with the Justice. As a child, Purnell lived in Chicago’s East Side with her mother. However, when her mother was diagnosed with cancer, they uprooted their lives to the city’s South Side in the Bronzeville area to live with Purnell’s grandmother. Purnell described her mother — who passed away when Purnell was 7 years old — as someone who was determined to provide her child with the best life and education possible. It was this drive that made her place Purnell in a private school early on.
RATINGS KING: Prof. Mike Coiner (ECON) knows he has a good reputation, but he stays away from the website Rate My Professor.
Inside the Brandeis International Business School building, hidden by Massachusetts wilderness, through a maze of winding corridors and study rooms bustling with students, is the office of one of the most beloved professors at Brandeis, Prof. Michael Coiner (ECON). As a professor of economics, Coiner has gained popularity on the website Rate My Professor, an online database used by university students to write reviews of their teachers. While he has never personally viewed his own profile on Rate My Professor, admitting in an interview with The Justice, “Oh no, that’s too scary,” Coiner is now the second most frequently rated professor at Brandeis, with a glowing score of 4.6 out of 5. Coiner commented on his profile by saying, “I know that classes are large so that lots of student know who I am or have had my course. I know that the scuttlebutt is generally positive, but I stay away from Rate my Professor.”
Jack Peters ’20 is a typical sports-loving student with an exceptional accomplishment; he is the 2017 champion of the division three North American Scrabble Championships.
On March 22, an attacker drove his car into crowds of people on Westminster Bridge in London. On April 7, four pedestrians died when a man drove his truck into a crowd in Stockholm. On April 20, a police officer was shot and killed in Paris. On May 22, 22 people died at a concert in Manchester after a bomb exploded. On June 3, men drove a car into pedestrians on the London Bridge and stabbed those nearby. On Aug. 17, a van drove into Barcelona crowds, killing 13 people.
The aroma of Guatemalan pastries filled the Multipurpose Room in the Shapiro Campus Center on May 3 as Marci McPhee, director of campus programs at the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, opened this semester’s Immigrant Practicum Presentation with an explanation of its purpose. Each preceding week, Hannah Baker-Lerner ’20, graduate student Olivia Wang and Daniella Cohen ’18 spent three hours in a base class relevant to Anthropology or International and Global Studies, three hours in a community organization supporting immigrants and an hour in “The Immigrant Experience in Waltham: A Service-based Practicum,” a course taught by McPhee. The Immigrant Practicum Presentation concluded these immersive journeys, allowing the students to share what they learned.
After picking up a book about coffee, Max Keilson ’13 came across a short paragraph describing how coffee grows inside a fruit on a tree.
Fast fashion is a phenomenon that has recently gained a great deal of media coverage for its negative effects, but for Amanda Zehner M.A.’11, it’s something she’s been aware of for much longer. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, fast fashion refers to the mass production of cheap clothing that reflects the trends of the time. The clothing isn’t meant to last long (just like the trends) and is priced such that the average consumer can purchase new items each season. Yet there are costs to this practice, both human and environmental. Workers are often exploited so the items can be priced competitively, and both the production of goods and mass disposal of these clothes once they go out of style impacts the environment negatively.
In the midst of incoming freshman, Guy Raz ’96 took his first step onto the Brandeis campus. But instead of locating his dorm, Raz headed straight to the Usdan student center, into a grungy, subterranean office where he began his undergraduate journalism career by writing an op-ed column for the Justice.
The creative, thoughtful and innovative minds of Brandeis University were on display on Saturday, April 22 at the University’s first ever TEDx event, during which five speakers delivered talks about topics ranging from research and education to psychology and life experience. Christine Zhu ’18 and Mesui Liu ’18 partnered with Brandeis’ Education for Students by Students (ESS) Club to organize the event. The speakers were Prof. Andy Molinsky (BUS), Prof. Chandler Rosenberger (SOC), Editor in Chief Florence Graves, graduate student Hauke Zeissler and Rebecca Groner ’17.
Saint Cyr Dimanche ’19 is an International and Global Studies major and resides in Worcester, Massachusetts with his family. What sets him apart from most other Brandeis students is that he is a runner who has participated in several kilometer runs and on Monday, April 17, he ran the Boston Marathon. He made the decision to run in the marathon over the summer.
“It just seemed like there were three clubs for every social issue on campus, but no one was talking about animals. There are billions of animals each year that are affected by what we eat.”
“No. We’re boring,” insisted team President Kent Dinlenc ’19 with a straight face when asked in an interview with the Justice to share the funniest experience he could recall from the Brandeis Quiz Bowl Team.
“When I came to Brandeis, I thought 3D printing was science fiction,” said Gabriel Seltzer ’18 in an interview with the Justice. Then he joined Deis3D, the on-campus 3D printing club located in the MakerLab above Goldfarb Library. He recalls his early days in the club, saying, “I started making my own objects, fixing printers, and helping out … it all sort of just snowballed from there.” Today, Seltzer is the vice president of Deis3D.
If it was unclear before, Rev. Jeffrey Brown has established that miracles really do occur.
“We’re hoping to get on the water next week,” Caroline Kaye ’18 said in an interview with the Justice. The Psychology major is the captain of the Brandeis Rowing Team. According to Kaye, the only thing stopping them may be the weather. “Fingers crossed, because it’s supposed to snow,” she laughed.