Dr. Stephen Bergman, a prominent psychiatrist and novelist, delivered the Phi Beta Kappa address to 2009 inductees, their families and friends and members of the public, focusing his speech on retaining compassion while practicing in the medical field at Spingold Theater last SaturdayDean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe began the ceremony by offering a brief welcome to the audience.
To find the Parrot Lab, I walk downstairs into the basement of the Foster Biomedical Labs to room 208.
The University Board of Trustees unanimously approved a plan at its May 15 meeting to suspend University contributions to the retirement fund for faculty and staff for one year, effective when fiscal 2010 begins July 1, according to Faculty Budget Committee Chairman Prof.
The new Student Union administration, including incoming Union President Andy Hogan '11 and Vice President Amanda Hecker '10, was sworn in and students were nominated for Executive Board positions at Union meetings held April 29 and May 3.
The visit of Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground and professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to campus this Thursday has raised the ire of members of the surrounding community such as prominent Boston conservative radio host Michael Graham, who has led a campaign to get Brandeis to bar Ayers from speaking.
The Student Union Judiciary passed down a pluralist decision ruling in favor of the Student Union in the case of Klionsky and McElhaney v.
The Senate passed a resolution submitted by the Class of 2011 Senator Lev Hirschhorn and East Quad Senator Jenna Rubin '11, which urged the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering committee to reconsider their recommendations and sustain the African and Afro-American Studies department.
The Union passed an Emergency Resolution stating the Senate's Position on the Office of Racial Minority Senator that read, "Be it resolved that the Union Senate strongly opposes deciding the questions raised by the existence of a RMS senator through a Judiciary case ... . It should be addressed by the people rather than the Judiciary."Union President Jason Gray '10 also spoke to the Senate about the Racial Minority Senator issue.
The April 30 visit of Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground and professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has engendered a wide range of opinions from students, faculty and administration that will be further explored at an upcoming series of town hall-style meetings scheduled for April 27 and 29.
What do we gain from wonder? What can imagination teach us? How do we think about these concepts in a world that puts increasing emphasis on the concrete and the tangible elements of life, especially in education?These questions were central to the Second Annual Symposium on the Pedagogy of Imagination.
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