University President Jehuda Reinharz told the Justice last Friday that while he wished the Faculty Review Committee would have made more concrete recommendations in its evaluation of Dean Jaffe's academic restructuring proposals, he appreciated the work of the committee in issuing their report.
After receiving a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Health to purchase an 800-megahertz superconducting magnet for chemistry and biochemistry research, Brandeis is building a home for the device in a new building adjacent to the Golding Health Center.The magnet will be used by Boston-area scientists to conduct health-related research in areas such as disease mechanisms, drug-target interactions, AIDS and cancer, according to Prof.
Modfest is tentatively planned for April 1, according to an e-mail to the 2005 Class Committee from Class of 2005 senators Alex Amann and Judith Lupatkin.The 2005 Class Committee will have a meeting to discuss the matter on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Correction appended.After over four months of deliberation, Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe made an apparent about-face on his proposals to eliminate the music composition graduate program, the linguistics major, the teaching of ancient Greek, as well as a reduction in the number of faculty in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and physics departments.His proposals were intended to shift resources within the arts and sciences and to alleviate what he has called a "structural academic deficit."The dean's announcement at a special faculty meeting Thursday came on the heels of mounting faculty opposition to the plan and the release of the Faculty Review Committee's advisory report on the proposals, which rejected nearly all of Jaffe's suggestions."I understand and accept that the process that we chose to pursue these discussions has turned out to be problematic," Jaffe said.
Correction appendedThe committee impaneled by Provost Marty Krauss and the Faculty Senate Committee to evaluate Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe's academic planning initiatives issued an evaluation Feb.
Information Technology Services (ITS) requested that all students change their UNET passwords during the February break following a server breach on Feb.
Shai Feldman, who was appointed as director of the new $30 million Crown Center for Middle East Studies last October, arrived on campus last week.
At least two students were served drinks laced with an unidentified substance-reportedly the drug ecstasy-during a Jan.
A keg of beer was stolen from the back of a delivery truck parked next to Sherman on Dec. 11, 2004, according to Barbara Laverdiere, Aramark's director at Brandeis.Laverdiere said that the driver of the truck was delivering several kegs for an event catered by Aramark.
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