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Bina Agarwal, director and professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth of Delhi, India, who has explored the potential for women’s increased inclusion in forest governance delivered a lecture on campus Monday. Agarwal traced the historical absence of women within the forestry industry. She illuminated the cultural and gender specific forces that have […]
Brandeis’ Relay For Life last weekend coupled with the various events that the Relay committee held throughout the year raised $77,000 for cancer research, $12,000 more than last year. At Relay For Life, a national event sponsored by the American Cancer Society, teams of people camp out around the track overnight and often sell baked […]
Ellen Kaplan Brandeis trustee Ellen Kaplan ’64 was awed as an entering student, remarking on the sensation that “campus felt like a new world to me, my world.” Coming from a high school in a small city, she described the feeling that her high school education may have been inadequate in preparing her for Brandeis. […]
Paula Doress-Worters, founding co-author of “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” came to the Women’s Study Research Center (WSRC) at Brandeis University to explore a long-standing interest in Ernestine Rose. Honoring feminist week at Brandeis, Doress-Worters’ lecture on the 19th-century woman’s rights advocate Ernestine Rose was timely and relevant. Ernestine Rose, daughter of Rabbi Perchozka, was born in […]
As Brandeis students and staff strolled through campus this past week, they may have been surprised to encounter a display of burnt bras near Shapiro Campus Center. This exhibit was one of the many ways in which Brandeis’ Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) initiated feminist dialogue in a week-long campaign to refute major stereotypes about […]
Dan Jick For trustee Dan Jick ’79, Brandeis is a family tradition. Connections with the university led Jick to create a scholarship in honor of his father, Leon, who served as a professor of Jewish History. Asserting the crucial and lifelong friendships that can be established during these years, Jick married a fellow Brandeis graduate […]
Like most students who come to Brandeis, I signed up for many clubs my first year that I never went to. At least for me, however, there were several clubs that I both sought out and remained involved with throughout my time here at Brandeis. These clubs have enabled me to become involved with other […]
Honey Nut Cheerios commercials boast about the cereal’s ability to lower your cholesterol, but do you really understand all of the ingredients on the food label that claim to have this effect on your body? Do you, in fact, even look at the food label? I know this task may seem annoying at first or […]
One of my most beloved pictures is of my dad and me wearing matching Brandeis sweatshirts. I was two years old and sitting on his lap with my cereal bowl not far away. Sometimes I look at this picture and think how amazing it is that this otherwise unremarkable baby picture ended up predicting the […]
The Huffington Post published an article last month in their religion section with a byline that is familiar even to Brandeis students who do not frequently read the left-wing tilting, Web-only newspaper. Erica Shapps ’13 wrote a blog post on Feb. 24 on the New York Police Department’s occasional monitoring of college students involved in […]
