The Bruins rolled into Monday's Original Six matchup with the Montreal Canadiens, having won four in a row and 18 of their last 21 games, including a 6-0 thrashing of Philadelphia on Saturday, to secure first place in the Northeast Division.
The North American premiere of Nahum Glatzer and the German-Jewish Tradition, a film on the former Brandeis Near Eastern and Judaic Studies professor, was held in the Mandel Center for the Humanities on Wednesday night.
Provost Steve Goldstein '78 appointed Prof. Irving R. Epstein (CHEM) last week to be the senior adviser to the provost for research. Epstein will manage and seek to expand an annual research portfolio of approximately $55 million in addition to implementing new methods of enhancing the research process at Brandeis, according to Goldstein. Epstein, the Henry F.
The International and Global Studies department hosted a panel on Wednesday analyzing the current economic crisis, with a focus on European sovereign debt, featuring Kent Lucken, a
Michael Dukakis, the former Governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, spoke in the Carl J.
On Sept. 17, the Brandeis sailing team placed 15th in a field of 18 at the Lake Champlain Open in Vermont. The University of Rhode Island won the regatta with 38 total points, followed by Northeastern University with 40.
Brandeis is ranked 31st in U.S. News & World Report's 2012 national university rankings, up three spots from last year's ranking, faring best in the categories of SAT scores and classes with under 20 students. Brandeis was tied with Boston College and was a single spot ahead of New York University while trailing Tufts University by one space in the rankings. 64.2 percent of Brandeis' classes have fewer than 20 students, the 18th-highest proportion among schools in the top 40 national universities, ahead of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University and Vanderbilt University. The 25th to 75th percentile of Brandeis students scored between 1270 and 1460 on the 1600-point SAT scale, giving Brandeis the 22nd-highest SAT scores among national universities, stronger than those of the University of California, Berkeley and BC. Brandeis was also ranked 34th on the list of best-value schools, defined by U.S.
Brandeis is ranked 31st in U.S. News & World Report's 2012 national university rankings, up three spots from last year's ranking, faring best in the categories of SAT scores and classes with under 20 students. Brandeis was tied with Boston College and was a single spot ahead of New York University while trailing Tufts University by one space in the rankings. 64.2 percent of Brandeis' classes have fewer than 20 students, the 18th-highest proportion among schools in the top 40 national universities, ahead of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Georgetown University and Vanderbilt University. The 25th to 75th percentile of Brandeis students scored between 1270 and 1460 on the 1600-point SAT scale, giving Brandeis the 22nd-highest SAT scores among national universities, stronger than those of the University of California, Berkeley and BC. Brandeis was also ranked 34th on the list of best-value schools, defined by U.S.
Correction appended. Prof. Anita Hill (Heller) will be the keynote speaker at "Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later," a 1-day conference in New York City reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and analyzing current challenges facing women and minorities in the workplace. The conference is being organized by Letty Cottin Pogrebin '59, a feminist activist and founding editor of Ms. Magazine, and Kathleen Peratis P '04, who is a founder of J Street, an advocacy group on Israeli politics, and the chair of the sexual harassment practice group at the New York law firm Outten and Golden LLP. The Women and Gender Studies Program is one of the event's cosponsors. Hill stated that the conference would focus on the progress that women have made in the workplace since 1991, and what can be achieved in the near future.
Michael Kenwood '94 died last Sunday during the attempted rescue of a submerged car that may have contained a trapped driver in Princeton, N.J. When Kenwood was a student at the University, he volunteered for the Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps and served as its director for 3 semesters, from spring 1993 through his graduation the following year, according to a BrandeisNOW press release. Kenwood was part of a group from Princeton Swiftwater Rescue Team that responded to a report of a submerged car that potentially had a person trapped inside at 4 a.m. on Aug.
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