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Amid the university’s budgetary crisis in 2008, Brandeis humanities departments faced imminent, and possibly fatal, downsizing in response to economic realities. Yet less than three years later and despite the setbacks, at least one department has managed to flourish. The Classical Studies department, under the guidance of Professor Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, who goes affectionately by […]
More than two years after the university’s decision to close The Rose because of a widening budget gap and shrinking endowment launched an international controversy and media frenzy, Brandeis celebrated the 50th anniversary of the art museum this week. Inside The Rose, the $1.7 million renovation project created freshly painted white walls, new LED lighting […]
The university is again a top contender for the title of “Most-Vegan Friendly College” among all small schools, a title awarded annually by the scholastic arm of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA2. Brandeis placed third in the competition last year, losing to Brown, who in turn lost in the final round to […]
A first-year MIT student was found dead in his dorm room Tuesday evening, authorities said. Satto Tonegawa ’15, an 18 year old from Newton and the son of MIT professor Susumu Tonegawa, who won the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was found by MIT police after 5 p.m. Tuesday in his dorm room. […]
The ongoing famine in Somalia is still causing massive harm, plaguing the population with hunger and yet receiving little media attention. Brandeis students are recognizing the problems associated with Somalia and giving aid, as evidenced by the “24-Hour Famine” event.
Just named senior adviser to the provost and hired at the Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll law firm in Washington, D.C., Professor Anita Hill (Heller) has had a booming month. To add to her academic and legal success, Beacon Press released Hill’s newest book on Oct. 4. “Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding […]
It has been 20 years since Anita Hill, then a law professor at Oklahoma, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for what she called “the most difficult experience of my life.” “It is only after a great deal of agonizing consideration that I am able to talk of these unpleasant matters to anyone,” Hill told […]
Off-campus housing is getting a makeover. Investors are converting the Waltham Watch Factory on Crescent Street along the Charles River into office space, restaurants and loft-style apartments
Anita Hill has been named the senior advisor to the provost, just as she prepares to keynote a conference in her honor in New York City on Saturday to mark the 20-year anniversary of her infamous testimony accusing the then-nominee of sexual harassment. Hill, the former Senate witness against Justice Clarence Thomas and professor at […]
As college students and middle-class Americans, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, join in the spread of protests against corporate greed, the Brandeis International Business School offers its students a different model of the role business can play in society. In line with the university’s long-standing pillar of social justice, professors at the business […]
