Gabby Zilkha: Kindness Day Coordinator
This week, justFeatures spoke with Gabby Zilkha ’16, the coordinator for Kindness Day, which will occur on campus this Thursday.
'Deis Discoveries: The Pump House
While walking the steep path that leads down to East Quad, you may have noticed a small, dilapidated house situated off to the side, between the path and the Usdan Student Center.
Halloween with Heart
A historic claim of American capitalism is that economic inequality is acceptable as long as mobility is possible.
Sitting down with Brian Quigley
Brian Quigley came to Brandeis as the new Waltham Group coordinator with experience as the head of the student activites program at Babson College.
Fulfilling the promise
Prof. Dan Perlman’s (BIOL) new office has two desks and a beach ball-sized inflatable globe. Sunlight pours in from the huge windows that line the wall.
A day in Usdan
Sodexo has been quite the hot-button topic on campus as of late. Speculation as to how the company treats its workers as well as the changes to campus meal plan policies has sparked a passionate discourse regarding the company’s standing.
A unified spectrum
Around this time last year, students from different LGBTQ+ groups across campus came together with a clear goal in mind: to create a Gender and Sexuality Center with a full-time program coordinator.
Ease your mind
Brandeis students are more likely to be stressed, depressed or anxious than students from similarly sized universities across the nation, according to the National College Health assessment conducted last year.
10 questions for Rani Neutill
Prof. Rani Neutill (ENG) was recently appointed the interim sexual assault services and prevention specialist, to take over the responsibilities of Shelia McMahon while McMahon is on leave.
An afternoon with the future provost
“This isn’t where I thought I was going to be, looking back just four months ago,” remarked Lisa Lynch, reflecting on her recent appointment to become the next University provost.
Bringing lax back
In 2012, when Eric Haavind-Berman ’15 and James Hayward ’16 arrived on campus, Haavind-Berman as a transfer and Hayward as a first- year, they were disappointed to find that their favorite sport, lacrosse, did not have a club team.
Books, not rockets
It was July 2014 in the North End of Boston when Ohad Elhelo ’16 received devastating news from his home country of Israel.
Segregation’s shadow
Justice Brandeis Semester students travel to Mississippi to research educational racial inequality, both past and present
Unearthing Canaanite relics
Prof. Andrew Koh (CLAS) and his team excavated the world’s oldest wine cellar
Trip down memory lane
Waltham Group volunteers participate in the Memory Café, a creative forum that hosts those suffering from memory loss
Science majors overseas
Physics students travel to India to enrich research, and end up gaining spirituality
Novelist makes her debut
Nadia Hashimi ’00 publishes her first book, exploring the lives of Afghan women through a gender-bending cultural practice
Kinship across barriers
Catie Stewart ’16 and Eli Philip ’15 built dialogue between Al-Quds and Brandeis students despite larger tensions
Legendary Professor Passes
The late Prof. Emeritus Allen Grossman Ph.D. ’60 (ENG) leaves a monumental legacy
Consulting put into practice
Business students team up to design a fiscal plan for a Kenyan farm
Former Brandeis employee wins discrimination lawsuit
Graduate research assistants publicize unionization decision
BranVan student workers fired amid campus transportation change
The shutdown of Channel 781 and what it means for political literacy in Waltham
Vanessa Mark’s family files lawsuit against Joseph’s Transportation