Jack N. Mandel, a major benefactor whose foundation with his younger brothers created the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education and the Mandel Center for the Humanities, died May 12 at the age of 99, according to a May 16 BrandeisNOW press release.Members of the Mandel family were not available for comment by press time.
The Board of Trustees approved a $6 million capital project to upgrade the campus technology network at last its meeting last Thursday, according to a March 31 BrandeisNOW article.
Due to "safety concerns" in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan, the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, a Columbia University-administered program currently hosting three Brandeis undergraduate students in Japan, has suspended its spring program, according to a March 17 BrandeisNOW article.A representative of KCJS could not be reached for comment by press time.
Brandeis students studying abroad in Japan were not harmed in the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck the country last Friday, wrote University administrators, in e-mail interviews with the Justice.Three undergraduate students who are studying abroad in the city of Kyoto on Honshu Island "are not effected by the quake and tsunami, which was centered up North near the city of Sendai," Assistant Dean of Academic Services and Director of Study Abroad J.
Katherine "Kat" Sommers '14 died on campus Feb. 15 due to what appeared to be a suicide, according to an e-mail sent that night to the Brandeis community by Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer.In an interview with the Justice, Tiffany Smith, Sommers' older sister who described having a close relationship with Sommers, said that Sommers had always been "very happy, very cheerful."Smith, who lives in Newton, Mass.
Katherine Sommers '14 died on campus Tuesday night due to what appears to be a suicide, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer wrote in an e-mail to the Brandeis community Tuesday night.Sawyer said in an interview with the Justice that a community advisor on duty had found Sommers, 18, in a Brandeis residence hall.Sommers, of Queens, N.Y., was studying History at the University, according to her Facebook profile page.Sawyer said that he; University President Frederick Lawrence; and the Rev.
Alan B. Slifka, a philanthropist whose foundation made a gift to the University to expand the Master of Arts in the Coexistence and Conflict program, passed away from cancer at the age of 81 last Friday, according to a BrandeisNOW press release published yesterday.
The Centers and Institutes Review Committee presented several recommendations in its report, which was released yesterday, such as making directors of the University's centers and institutes regular members of the Brandeis faculty, creating the Academic Priorities Committee to consider the overall academic planning of centers and institutes, and ensuring that centers and institutes cover their indirect costs as best as possible.According to the report, other "major" recommendations include forming steering committees for all centers and institutes; seeing that the steering committees "work together with Center directors and relevant academic departmental chairs to define shared goals and to best allocate resources for faculty, student support, and program expenses;" and establishing "incentives that promote engagement and cooperation between Centers and relevant faculty." The recommendations also state that centers and institutes contribute to the University's educational mission and that "all paid and unpaid research appointments associated with Centers should be of limited term and meet university standards of scholarly or practitioner excellence." The Centers and Institutes Review Committee was charged by University Provost Marty Krauss to offer recommendations regarding "how to maximize Centers/Institutes' academic and fiscal contributions to the university's core missions of teaching, scholarship, and public engagement," according to the committee's website.
Editor's note: Because all charges related to the arrests described in this article have been dismissed, the Justice has removed the names of the individuals involved from the online version of this article.
Angela H. Brodie, a professor of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center, received the 13th annual Jacon Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine administered by Brandeis' Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center for developing combative drugs for postmenopausal women with breast cancer, according to an Oct.7 BrandeisNOW article.
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