Some alumni have expressed disappointment that they weren't allowed to attend former President Bill Clinton's speech last Monday.The event was only open to Brandeis undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and faculty members.
The Waltham Housing Authority has agreed to organize a community center for Prospect Terrace, a low-income public housing community off of Prospect Hill Road.
Green party candidate and environmental activist Colin Bennett showed what he learned about global climate change from Nobel Peace Prize-winner Al Gore by presenting a slideshow about An Inconvenient Truth, an Academy Award-winning documentary film on Gore's environmental advocacy efforts, in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium last Thursday.
When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wanted to know why so few people over age 65 were utilizing the free health care provided for them under the Medicare program, Prof.
Ko Ko Lay, an exiled Burmese activist currently residing in the United States, spoke to an audience of approximately 30 students and guests in the Lurias room of the Hassenfeld Conference Center about the conflict in his home country and the steps that are being taken to find a resolution.
Arun Gandhi, grandson of the late pacifist Mahatma Gandhi, gave the keynote address to open the Student Peace Alliance National conference in Levin Ballroom last Friday, speaking to nearly 300 audience members from Student Peace Alliance chapters across the nation.Gandhi, the founder of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Rochester, New York, spoke about the prevalence of violence in the world and how small, meaningful acts of peace can change society.
Brandeis hosted more than 300 students from nearly 80 schools for the inaugural Student Peace Alliance National Conference last weekend.
CORRECTION APPENDED (SEE BOTTOM):Almost eight months after former President Jimmy Carter encouraged Brandeis students to visit the Palestinian territories in his address to the campus last January, a group of students is making that idea a reality.A weeklong trip initiated by Students Crossing Boundaries, a new student organization, will send a delegation of eight to 10 students to the Palestinian territories during February break.
When Al-Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh first visited Brandeis in 1997, a groundbreaking partnership between the two institutions was inspired.
Brandeis’ 2026 commencement choice is a cowardly, hypocritical cash grab
Brandeis community reflects on antisemitism and campus support
Faculty meeting sheds light on University's marketing plan, future of Brandeis Core
Crown Center teach-in discusses the United States, Israel, Iran and the Middle East at war
Sherman reopens following the February fire