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A123 Systems, a Waltham based technology company, has merged in a $465 million dollar deal with Chinese company Wanxiang Group, the company announced last week. The company creates lithium-ion batteries for electric powered cars and motors. Wanxiang is an automotive components manufacturer, and one of the largest companies in China not owned by the government. […]
After nearly a year of searching, the committee has hired Hamilton College Professor Chad Williams to serve as chair of the African and Afro-American Studies Department (AAAS). He will replace Professor Faith Smith, who had been serving as acting head of the department. Professor Smith will continue to teach within the department. The hiring of […]
In one of several changes to his senior staff this summer, President Fred Lawrence last week appointed Steven Manos, who served as executive vice president for 26 years at Tufts University, to be senior vice president and chief operating officer at Brandeis. “Success to me does not just mean a good bottom line,” Manos said […]
The Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act June 28, declaring the law constitutional with a 5-4 vote. The decision affirmed the 2010 law as constitutional; yet amidst a partisan congress, a rhetoric-filled campaign, and a nation split down the middle, the state of health care is in […]
Two unaffiliated women have reported rape around Harvard in less than a week. Prior to the recent incidents, Harvard had not had a stranger-rape reported in 12 years. The descriptions of the attackers were disparate, and police do not believe there is a connection between the incidents, according to The Boston Globe. The first victim […]
This year’s 4.1 percent tuition and fees increase made Brandeis the second most expensive college in Massachusetts, ranking behind only Williams, and ahead of Boston College, Boston University and Babson, according to a Boston Business Journal report published in May. The primary purpose of raising an extra $8.6 million in funds with the tuition increase […]
Activists have called for probes into allegedly brutal police conduct during the break-up of a protest at a West Virginia mine last month where Dorian Williams ’12 was among those arrested. The July 28 protest was designed to stop production at Hobet Mines in West Virginia. Twenty protesters were arrested after refusing to leave at […]
The last time the men’s basketball team traveled overseas in the preseason was in 2007 when Coach Brian Meehan took the team to Italy. That season the Judges advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament for the first time in nearly 30 years. This year, forward Alex Schmidt ’14, alumnus John Saucier ’08 […]
Trustee Ken Kaiserman ’64, a devoted alumnus who established several endowed scholarships and engaged with young alumni, died from cancer on Aug. 19. He was 73. Having first joined the Board of Trustees as an alumni-term trustee in 1995, Kaiserman served in the Alumni Association for more than 35 years, according to senior vice president […]
Jackie Theoharis ’14, who performed in Urinetown and Fuddy Meers this past academic year is making her mark on Brandeis theater. Theoharis, who was hooked on the idea of theater from the age of four said that as a child she loved singing and dancing. “[My] aunt and cousins were extremely involved in theater, and […]
