Tewksbury student honored at Malden Catholic High School Oct 30, 2009
Daniel Cremin, CFX, toured Brandeis University. In addition, Brandeis student Stephen Cadigan, a 2009 graduate of Malden Catholic, spoke to the students about his freshman experience as he begins his chemistry and pre-med studies. (Tewksbury Advocate, MA)
Town Council candidates Q & A Oct 30, 2009
Education (high school and college): WHS Class of 1995, B.A. from Brandeis University and Nottingham University (England) where I concentrated studies in Economics and International Economics, respectively. J.D. from Roger Williams University School of Law with studies at the Inns of Court (London) and Catholic University (Portugal). (Wethersfield Post, CT)
Rose blooms again at Brandeis Oct 29, 2009
Marshall Wolff Visitors admire paintings on the top floor during Wednesday night's reopening of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham ... The Rose Art Museum reopened last night as some 200 visitors viewed the largest collection of contemporary art in New England nine months after Brandeis University trustees decided to sell the works. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
Northeastern men’s soccer surge has Western flavor Oct 29, 2009
Bud Collins cited by Brandeis hall Brookline resident Arthur Bud Collins, the first men s tennis coach at Brandeis University, will be inducted into the school s Joseph M. Linsey Athletic Hall of Fame on Nov. 1. The 11 a.m. ceremonies will be held at the Westin Hotel in Waltham. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Transfer rate similar to peer schools Oct 27, 2009
Mark Garibyan, a junior, said he transferred for financial reasons and now attends Brandeis University in Massachusetts. Wollner, an English major with a focus on creative non-fiction writing, said she transferred because she did not seem to click with other GW students. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Many people don’t get enough Vitamin D Oct 26, 2009
Daniel Perlman, a senior scientist at Brandeis University, says 2,000 IUs a day is safe: In the summer sun, the body itself is known to produce far higher levels. E-mail health questions to. (Boston Globe)
Boston’s Museum of Science exhibition features Harry Potter film props Oct 25, 2009
Coming out Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston, by Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan, Susan L. Porter, and Lisa Fagin Davis (Brandeis University). The Body in the Sleigh, by Katherine Hall Page (Morrow). (Boston Globe)
Fired coach's age bias case headed for trial Oct 25, 2009
But that was taken away abruptly when she was fired from her coaching and teaching jobs at Brandeis University in Waltham - positions she held for more than 30 years - in July 2006. Sullivan filed an age-discrimination claim with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination that September, and nearly three years later received notice that the state board had found probable cause for her case to proceed. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Swine flu going to school Oct 23, 2009
At Brandeis University in Waltham, as of Oct. 16, 113 students had flu-like illness since the start of the fall semester, with five students currently under care, according to the health center Web site. The week of Oct. 12 was the slowest in terms of new cases, however influenza cases are not expected to be subsiding, the site said, noting,``the flu is not a bullet that we have dodged, it is more like a boomerang that will return. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
Dick Lehr will be library gala guest Oct 23, 2009
While completing The Fence, he was at a visiting journalist at Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Lehr adds his name to a list of previous gala guests that have included Doris Kearns Goodwin, Dennis Lehane, Brian McGrory, William Martin, Leigh Montville, Bill Littlefield and Hank Phillipi Ryan. (Scituate Mariner, MA)
Read more... Oct 23, 2009
As a member of the Seagram's corporate family, the first chairman of the United Jewish Committee, and a member of numerous boards including Mount Sinai Hospital and Brandeis University, billionaire Charles Bronfman has amassed a trove of insights and anecdotes about the pleasures and pitfalls of giving ... Currently, he sits on the Boards of Mount Sinai Medical Center and Brandeis University. (PNN Online)
Brandeis to host Gaza violence forum Oct 22, 2009
Brandeis University said yesterday that it will host a forum next month with South African Judge Richard Goldstone, the author of a fiercely controversial United Nations fact-finding report that accused Israeli forces as well as Palestinian fighters of committing war crimes in Gaza. In what is sure to be a heated debate, Goldstone will discuss his report for the first time with a senior Israeli political figure. (Boston Globe)
Warren says he will bring consensus, new ideas Oct 22, 2009
He came to Newton at age 2, when his father, Joe Warren, was a Brandeis University professor looking for a home for his family. Brandeis president steered the elder Warren to the house on Beaumont Avenue that Warren now lives in with his wife, Tassy, and 16-month-old daughter, Abigail. (Newton Tab, MA)
Arts: the week ahead Oct 22, 2009
Kniznick Gallery, Women s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, 515 South St., Waltham. 781-736-8102. (Boston Globe)
More women with young children plan to relaunch careers Oct 22, 2009
Several local schools, including Babson College, Wellesley College, and Brandeis University, are responding with specialized career counseling programs for their alumni, and more than 75 women have graduated from Bentley University s More Opportunities for Mothers workshops, a four-part series run by the Waltham school s Women s Leadership Institute the last three years. The current More Opportunities for Mothers session has enrolled two dozen women, including Brown and Peabody, who met in a... (Boston Globe)
A Tannersville reunion Oct 19, 2009
The school closed in 1947 and Brandeis University opened at the campus in 1948. Cohen studied engineering at New York University before joining the family s textile ding company, Reliable Piece Dyeworks, where he worked until 1980. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Scientists discover a vegetarian spider, upending a longstanding assumption Oct 19, 2009
Now, Brandeis University senior lecturer Eric Olson and Villanova University researcher Christopher Meehan have found a vegetarian spider. The discovery of Bagheera kiplingi (named after the panther in Rudyard Kipling s The Jungle Book) is not simply a eureka discovery about a twist in the biological world. (Boston Globe)
China swirls in whirlpool of protectionism Oct 19, 2009
"The World Bank-sponsored Global Antidumping Database suggests that, since the economic turmoil began, countries have been ganging up to use World Trade Organization (WTO) rules in an almost mob-like response to restrict imports from China," said Bown, a US economics professor at Brandeis University, doubting today's struggling world economy could withstand a strong international protectionist backlash. Industry demands for new import restrictions against China under "safeguards" and other... (Xinhuanet, China)
Third Generation comes of age (3) Oct 18, 2009
Ariela Alpert, a sophomore at Brandeis University, knows that every day, regular as clockwork, she s going to get a call from her dad, Beachwood resident Marty Alpert. The only child of survivors of Dachau and Shtuthoff, Alpert says his parents were even more possessive. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Roman Polanski’s rape Oct 17, 2009
E.J. Graff is associate director and senior researcher at Brandeis University s Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
For Boston Chamber Music Society, a season for harmonic progression Oct 16, 2009
And tomorrow evening at Brandeis University, he presents Together Again, described on Brandeis s website as an evening of unaccompanied Bach followed by stand-up comedy. When asked by a reporter to elaborate, though, Stepner would say only that he d be playing solo works, including the great Chaconne in D minor and Stepner s transcription of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue. (Boston Globe)
Loyal Red Sox fan thrown a cruel curve Oct 15, 2009
I even beat Andre Tippett at Brandeis University, even though he tossed me out of the ring and under a scorer s table, writes Szantyr. It was during a basketball game that he was refereeing in February 2000 that his troubles began. (Boston Globe)
Brandeis agrees to delay sale of artwork Oct 14, 2009
BOSTON A Suffolk Probate Court judge denied yesterday a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by three members of the Rose Art Museum s board of overseers to prevent Brandeis University from closing the museum and selling the artwork, said Edward Terry Dangel, attorney for the plaintiffs. At the hearing, the university agreed it would not sell any of the artwork donated by the plaintiffs, prominent museum benefactors Meryl Rose, Jonathan Lee, and Lois Foster. (Boston Globe)
Chocolate, Water Reduce Pain Response To Heat Oct 14, 2009
Don Katz, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brandeis University who studies taste, said that Mason and Foo's paper brings together two systems taste and pain that are usually studied separately. "They're saying the purpose of the taste system is to give the animal a cue that helps it decide what stimulus they should or shouldn't pay attention to," Katz said. (Science Daily)
'Veggie' spider shuns meat diet Oct 13, 2009
" Like other species of jumping spider, Bagheera kiplingi has keen eyesight, is especially fast and agile and is thought to have good cognitive skills, which allows it to "hunt" down this plant food. Fierce competitionThe spider's herbivorous diet was first discovered in Costa Rica in 2001 by Eric Olsen from Brandeis University, and was then independently observed again in 2007 by Christopher Meehan, at that time an undergraduate student at Villanova University. Competition in the tropics is... (BBC News)
First vegetarian spider found in Americas Oct 13, 2009
The spider's herbivorous diet was first discovered in Costa Rica in 2001 by Eric Olsen from Brandeis University, and was then observed again in 2007 by Christopher Meehan, at that time an undergraduate student at Villanova University. Then they collaborated to describe the spider for the first time in the recent paper. (Xinhuanet, China)
Unusual Spider Species Passes Up Live Prey for Plants Oct 13, 2009
The was noted independently in the field by Eric Olson, a lecturer in biology at Brandeis University, in Costa Rica in 2001 and by Christopher Meehan, then a biology master's degree student at Villanova University, on a field exercise in Mexico in 2007. Waking early for a field research assignment, Meehan decided to observe a jumping spider he saw on an ant-covered acacia a type of spider that had fascinated him since boyhood. (Scientific American)
First 'Mainly Vegetarian' Spider Oct 13, 2009
The research, led by Christopher Meehan of Villanova University and Eric Olson of Brandeis University, has revealed the extraordinary ecology and behavior in Bagheera kiplingi, which lives throughout much of Central America and southern Mexico ... The researchers include Christopher J. Meehan (Villanova University), Eric J. Olson (Brandeis University), Matthew W. Reudink (Queen's University), T. Kurt Kyser (Queen's University), and Robert L. Curry (Villanova University). (Science Daily)
Democrats round on Bush over trade gap Oct 13, 2009
Catherine Mann, a professor at Brandeis University, said export figures showed that US makers of capital goods such as heavy machinery were coming into their own in the global economy. Many economists were unsettled by the unexpected slowdown in Decembers exports and downgraded their estimates of economic growth for the fourth quarter from 3. (Yahoo News -- U.S. Budget)
Brandeis professor to talk about prophet Oct 12, 2009
Marc Brettler, the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies and past chair of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, will speak about the prophet Isaiah and his continuing relevance to modern lives during Temple Isaiah s Yom Shabbat celebration, Oct. 16, 17 and 18. During the Friday evening service, Brettler will give an overview of the prophet Isaiah, addressing such topics as Isaiah s identity and times, his locale, his main message, and the formation of the Biblical book... (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Dr. Dana Sackton joins Mystic Valley Pediatrics in Medford Oct 7, 2009
Sackton received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and received her bachelor s degree from Brandeis University in Waltham. She completed a pediatrics residency at Hasbro Children s Hospital in Providence, R.I.. (Medford Transcript, MA)
U of Ill. trustees OK president's resignation Oct 4, 2009
President of Brandeis University to step down. The president of Brandeis University, who came under intense criticism for recommending that the school close its art museum and sell parts of its $350 million collection, says he is stepping down. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Merrill Peterson, 88; wrote on role of Jefferson, Lincoln Oct 2, 2009
Dr. Peterson was teaching at Brandeis University when he wrote his first book, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1960), which explored the relatively new field of intellectual history by focusing less on Jefferson s life than on the wide-ranging influence of his ideas. The book won the Bancroft Prize, a prestigious award for the study of history, and helped Dr. Peterson gain a faculty appointment in 1962 to the University of Virginia, which Jefferson had founded in 1819. (Boston Globe)
FINANCING FAITH: Religious life won't be the same after downturn Oct 2, 2009
Jonathan Sarna, a Brandeis University historian and author of "American Judaism," says enrollment in Jewish schools plummeted in some cities, and many young Jews of that period didn't have a chance to study their religion. Today, some parents, regardless of faith, can no longer afford the thousands of dollars in tuition it costs to send a child to a religious day school. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
150 year-old Danvers company sold Oct 1, 2009
Among the Suffolk projects are a Brandeis University residence hall, a UMass Dartmouth residence hall, Ave Maria University in Florida, the Mandarin Oriental Boston hotel and the Manulife Financial U.S. headquarters in South Boston. Suffolk, too, has a charitable arm, with its Play for the Future fundraiser that raises money for scholarships for inner city children. (Danvers Herald, MA)
Local woman gets award Oct 1, 2009
Not wanting to make the move halfway across the country, Davis chose to become a psychology major at Brandeis University, where she was fortunate to find a music therapy mentor. Eventually, Davis became a music therapist for the Fernald School in Waltham and also became active in the certification process with two national music therapy associations. (Bolton Common, MA)
GAO lawyer to be Obama's pick for top procurement office Sep 30, 2009
He also graduated from Oxford University in 1974 and Brandeis University in 1972. He also studied at universities in Tel-Aviv, Marburg and Munich in Germany, and in Paris. (FCW.com)
Quotes of note Sep 26, 2009
-- Brandeis University president JEHUDA REINHARZ, resigning after months of criticism. You can t let the institutions that got all of us in trouble think, We got over the hangover; now we can go back to the bar. (Boston Globe)
Loving Friends Sep 25, 2009
" CENTRAL PERK TRIVIA It was reportedly based on a coffee shop at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, where the show's creators studied Insomnia Cafe was among other titles considered for the show (with contenders including Friends Like Us, Six of Us and Across the Hall) Manhattan's West Village is the setting of the coffee house and main apartment building, although filming was in Los Angeles The artwork in Central Perk changed every three episodes The Central Perk set was dismantled once to... (BBC News -- UK)
Save-A-Date: Sept. 24 Sep 24, 2009
Speaker will be Lisa M. Lynch, dean at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and chairwoman of the board of directors of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank. She also is a member of the Governor s Council of Economic Advisors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Beth Israel Deaconess picks chairman Sep 24, 2009
He is also a former chairman of the board of trustees at Brandeis University in Waltham and serves as a trustee at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Beverly Achievers Sep 23, 2009
John Parcellin, son of Linda Manning and John Parcellin, was named to the dean s list at Brandeis University for the spring 2009 semester. . (Beverly Citizen, MA)
Protectionism roadblock to world economic recovery Sep 23, 2009
A report by Chad P. Bown, a Brandeis University economics professor, also found that new requests for protection from imports in the first half of 2009 are up 18. 5 percent over the first half of 2008 globally. (Xinhuanet, China)
PG North/West: Quaker Valley freshman ready for a WPIAL test in girls' tennis Sep 23, 2009
Sarah Richman, who also was a PIAA doubles quarterfinalist as a freshman in 2004 along with Molly Findley, is a sophomore playing on the Brandeis University women's tennis team. Noella was a WPIAL singles quarterfinalist last season, and plays second singles for the Quakers this season. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Report urges Brandeis to keep Rose open to the public Sep 22, 2009
The Rose Art Museum, at Brandeis University, houses New England s largest collection of modern and contemporary art ... A Brandeis University committee examining the future of the Rose Art Museum will recommend today that the museum remain open to the public, eight months after the financially strapped college threatened to shutter the renowned facility and sell off its collection. (Boston Globe)
A time of moral reckoning Sep 21, 2009
I serve with him on the advisory board of the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University, and I know him well. His integrity is beyond question. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Get paid to be a do-gooder Sep 19, 2009
Young people have grown more interested in considering public service jobs, and employers have increasingly come to view a stint with the Peace Corps or Habitat for Humanity as a plus on a job-seeker's rsum, says Joseph Du Pont, who runs the career center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. "If you can develop leadership skills and provide concrete evidence of your accomplishments at a job somewhere like Teach for America, the Peace Corps or any private or nonprofit organization that... (MSNBC -- Business)
Flu symptoms showing up on campus Sep 15, 2009
Officials at Brandeis University - where classes resumed Aug. 27, earlier than some other schools - said 12 students have come down with signs of the flu. Patients with flu symptoms are not being routinely tested, so it is not possible to know for sure whether the students have swine flu. (Boston Globe)
Termeer to lead Fed board in Boston Sep 15, 2009
Termeer, now deputy chairman, will take over leadership of the board in 2010, succeeding Lisa M. Lynch, dean and professor of economics at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Lynch completes her second three-year term at the end of this year. (Boston Globe)
China strongly opposes a U.S. decision made Friday night to impose special protectionist tariffs on tire imports from China. • U.S. to restrict Chinese tire imports amid China opposition Sep 12, 2009
"This is the administration's first real test on trade policy ... they're either going to implement new barriers or not," said Chad P. Bown, an economics professor at Brandeis University. The protectionist move by the Obama administration will ultimately hurt the U.S.-China trade relations, which are becoming more and more important due to the global financial crisis, some economists warned. (Xinhuanet, China)
Beyond all expectations Sep 10, 2009
Taisha Sturdivant (left) on the campus of Brandeis University, where she is a junior. By Globe Columnist / September 10, 2009. (Boston Globe)
Yale Removes Prophet Muhammad Cartoons From Book Sep 9, 2009
Mike Lovett/Brandeis University ... Yale University Press, which the Ivy League school owns, removed the 12 caricatures from the book "The Cartoons That Shook the World" by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen which is scheduled to be released next week. (Fox News)
10 top campus art collections Sep 4, 2009
Founded in 1961, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham is unique among New England museums in that it specializes in modern and contemporary art. It has top-shelf works by, among others, Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Morris Louis, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, and Ad Reinhardt. (Boston Globe)
Research At Academic Medical Centers Is Active, Diverse, Study Finds Sep 3, 2009
D., of Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. and Eric G. Campbell, Ph. (Science Daily)
Protestant churches shift slowly toward gay equality Sep 1, 2009
Wendy Cadge is an associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University. Laura Olson is a professor of political science at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C.. (Boston Globe)
US storm as Mohammed cartoons edited out of book Aug 31, 2009
Author Jytte Klausen, a Danish-born professor of politics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, reluctantly agreed to cut the cartoons from the book. "I am sad personally because I feel it is a loss to the book to be published without the illustrations. It is also sad that we have a circumstance where an academic press feels compelled to go ahead and remove these illustrations," Klausen told AFP in a telephone interview. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Hyman Bloom, 96; painted works of grisly Expressionism Aug 28, 2009
Pamela Allara, professor emerita of contemporary art at Brandeis University, called Mr. Bloom certainly one of the best post-war American painters, one whose work was, through accident of timing, eclipsed by Abstract Expressionism. I think now, slowly, his reputation is building back, Allara said. (Boston Globe)
University ranks 53 in college list Aug 28, 2009
GW shares its position with 10 other schools, including Boston University, Brandeis University and Wake Forest University. University President Emeritus Stephen Joel Trachtenberg questioned the magazine's rankings, saying they have not changed much in more than 20 years. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Susan Herman; professor began leadership programs Aug 27, 2009
After she graduated from Brandeis University in 1964 with a bachelor s in English, Mrs. Herman taught high school English in the Boston area and worked at the camp during the summers. While raising her three children, Mrs. Herman attended Antioch University New England in Keene, N.H., where she received her master s degree in organization and management in 1981. (Boston Globe)
The promise and limits of local food Aug 26, 2009
Brian Donahue, an associate professor of American environmental studies at Brandeis University, is the author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forest in New England. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Publisher edits out prophet cartoons Aug 24, 2009
WHEN Yale University Press publishes The Cartoons that Shook the World by the Brandeis University political scientist Jytte Klausen in November, the book will be missing a key element: the cartoons that shook the world ... Klausen, a native of Denmark who has been at Brandeis University for 17 years and is a specialist on Muslim communities in Europe, seemed the ideal author to unravel how and why the original publication of the cartoons in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper resulted in boycotts,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
George P. Kalangis, at 74; was Greek Orthodox priest, educator Aug 23, 2009
A year later, he moved to the Brandeis University library in Waltham, where he worked for four years. In 1970, Rev. Kalangis welcomed Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, to the small Saints Anargyroi congregation in Marlborough. (Boston Globe)
The top 10 things to bring to the dorm Aug 22, 2009
The Community Newspaper Company interns who contributed to this article are: Nick Cunkelman of Acton, Colby College; Briana DiPinto of Woburn, Southern Connectivut University; Bret Matthew of Clinton, Brandeis University; Justine Selsing of Lincoln, Pomona College; Jennifer Marz of Lexington, Emory University; and Stephanie Seeliger of Tewksbury, Suffolk University contributed to this list. Loading commenting interface. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Caught up in a cartoon controversy Aug 22, 2009
Jytte Klausen, who has been at Brandeis University for 17 years, argued against Yale s decision to cut the cartoons from her book ... WALTHAM - When Yale University Press publishes The Cartoons that Shook the World by Brandeis University political scientist Jytte Klausen in November, the book will be missing a key element: The cartoons that shook the world. (Boston Globe)
Michael Mazur; illustrator reinvigorated monotype; 73 Aug 21, 2009
He also taught for many years at Rhode Island School of Design and Brandeis University, before devoting himself full time to his art. My 40th birthday present to myself was quitting teaching, he told the Globe in 1987. (Boston Globe)
