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February 2010

• Bronner discusses impartiality in Israel (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Ethical Inquiry: Who Bears Responsibility for the Environment?

• In the company of a human rights giant (blog)
  Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz speaks with former attorney general of India Soli Sorabjee and his wife Zena. Reinharz was in India to speak at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, address the Asia Society in Mumbai and visit with Brandeis alumni, parents, partners and friends.

• A Brandeis Passage to India (blog)

• Jehuda Reinharz to visit climate summit (The Brandeis Justice)

• President to deliver address in India, connect with Brandeis constituents

• Holcombe speaks on Tibetan anti-poverty fund (The Brandeis Justice)
  

• Panel discusses future of conflict in Afghanistan (The Brandeis Hoot)

January 2010

• An unlikely advocate (The Brandeis Justice)

• After being trapped in rubble from Haiti earthquake, Heller alum Ann Varghese, MS '09, returns home

• ABC News and TIME document E. Benjamin Skinner's Haiti Rescue Mission

• Brandeis students join together to help Haiti (The Brandeis Justice)

• Brandeis students ‘Hope for Haiti' (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Director of sustainable international development program offers guidance on giving wisely to Haiti

• Aharon Barak: Israel must be part of global community, abide by international law (The Jerusalem Post)

• Know Your Enemy

December 2009

• Excuse Notes (blog)
  

• Sustaining Hope: Six Tales of Trauma and Transformation -- Six Brandeis students share their 2009 summer internship experiences

• Notes from Gris Gris (blog)

• Adjusting to life on the other side of the ocean (The Brandeis Justice)
  

November 2009

• Dr. Sugata Bose delivers inaugural Soli Sorabjee Lecture

• SEA Change: On Copenhagen (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• This was once my home: the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis on Brandeis students (The Brandeis Hoot)

• On my porch (blog)
  

• Cultures Meet at Mela (The Brandeis Justice)

• Al-Quds University students and faculty visit campus

• Artist visits to work on Family Literacy Lesotho project (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Oz calls upon Israelis and Palestinians to come together (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Brandeis and Mumbia: In Pictures

• Helping hands in Liberia (blog)

• Fisher explores Nazi effect on homosexuality in tennis (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Breaking the Code (Brandeis University Magazine, pdf format)

• Goldstone defends UN Gaza Report (The Brandeis Hoot)

• From rhetoric to reality: unpacking the numbers and practices of global higher ed

• Brandeis IBS Hosted New England-Israel Life Sciences Summit

October 2009

• Obbini Tumbao shakes up Brandeis with Latin grooves

• Global Economists See the Recession’s End in Sight

• Klausen discusses her book and cartoons that ‘shook the world’

• Diwali Lights Up IBS
  

• Burmese monks advocate democracy, civil rights (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Hamza says ‘Talk to an Iraqi’ (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Recycle for a life cycle (blog)

• New England Cable news looks at Heller's people and mission on its 50th anniversary

• Doctor who lost three daughters in Gaza War addresses need for peace (The Brandeis Hoot)

• New Crown Center Paper: The Uncommonality of "A Common Word"

• Israeli Deputy PM talks about Mid-East conflict (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• The Fight to Treat Leprosy (The Justice)
  
  

• International Business School hosts China's Vice Minister of Commerce
  The Honorable Fu Ziying, Vice Minister of Commerce for China and the most senior Chinese official to ever visit Brandeis, addressed the School one day prior to the start of the G-20 meetings in Pittsburgh.
• Greening China
  
  

• A minority in my own country? (blog)
• New Brandeis Environmental Crisis Forum launched
• MusicUnitesUS to welcome Obbini Tumbao
• Madly Busy Adjustments (blog)
• A site to remember (The Jerusalem Post)
• International Business School hosts USAID Women Leadership Program Scholars

September 2009

• Justice Brandeis of the Peace (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Inside the "Tunnel of Oppression" (blog)

• A site to remember (The Jerusalem Post)

• Speakers discuss technology's effects on journalism (The Justice)
  

• Hinojosa "owns her voice" in Roosevelt lecture 

• International Business School students get a head start with Global Directions Program

• Announcing the fall Global Brandeis Symposium

• Bringing Israel Studies to China

• Brandeis Study Abroad Fair

• International Business School visits Madrid
  Brandeis International Business School (IBS) held its annual World Financial Centers (WFC) program in Madrid this summer from July 5 – 11, hosted by highly-ranked IE Business School.
  

• Playwright Rogelio Martinez's new "Cocktail time in Cuba" at Brandeis

• Does new technology require a new ethics?

• "A glimpse of life behind the wall" (The Justice)

• Brandeis students featured in NAFSA's "International Educator"

• "Modern-Day Emancipation" (The Justice)

August 2009

• Middle East status grim overall, according to Crown Center experts

• New SoJust Leadership Series

• MA Student in Haiti (blog)

• Global Collaborations Highlight the 2009-10 Brandeis Concert Season

• Professor's work surveys motivations behind cartoon cataclysm

• Egypt's essential partnership (The Washington Post)

• Nipun Marwaha '12 competing for Bollywood singing role

• Crown Center paper explores grave visitation in Salafi Islam

• Arunoday Singh '04 makes his Bollywood acting debut (see picture, right)

• Children, Health, and Human Rights in Canada (blog)

July 2009

• Medical Disconnect (blog)

• A Tale of Four Cities (blog)

• Chad Bown talks with Bloomberg TV about U.S.-China trade policy

• Healthcare in Cameroon (blog)

• Voices of Guatemala (blog)

• Social Justice in Sydney (blog)

• A Foreign Homeland (blog)

• This summer, four Brandeis students are in Mumbai as part of an ongoing student-run initiative, Revive Mumbai. Read their blog here.
  

• Ethics Center's Dan Terris discusses Judge Sonia Sotomayor's cautious openness to foreign laws in Boston Globe op-ed

• Jonathan Sarna looks into the future of the international Jewish community

• Jytte Klausen helps Newsweek dispel 'Eurabia' fears

• Brandeis in China (blog)
  

June 2009

• UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (blog)

• Keeping Sydney Green (blog) 

• Anna Ronell named first director of the Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry

• Health and Hope in Peru (blog)
  

• Middle East expert Nader Habibi taps into a solution for rising oil prices

• Meet the 2009 Peter Petri Global Fellows 

• Climate change leader R.K. Pachauri visits Brandeis (video) 

May 2009

• Live from Jerusalem
  Prof. Derek Isaacowitz (psychology) is a member of a Brandeis faculty delegation currently visiting Al-Quds University in Jerusalem -- part of a long-term partnership between the two universities. Read his blog entry on teaching abroad here.

• Prof. Andy Molinsky and IBS students on overcoming cultural barriers to jobs (National Public Radio)

• Indian environmentalist Pachauri to receive Brandeis honorary degree
  R.K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will receive an honorary degree during Brandeis Commencement ceremonies on May 17. Dr. Pachauri will also deliver the Commencement address of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

• New research nets the true economic costs of global mosquito-borne illness

• Review of the Institute of International Judges (International Judicial Monitor)
  

• 19 Brandeis students to pursue social justice internships around the world

• Heller students apply water concepts in the developing world (Milford Daily News)

• Latest Crown Center Brief considers "Jihadi Revisionism" 

April 2009

• Heller's Ricardo Godoy explores modern times in the Amazon

• Announcing "Women, Leadership, State, and Society"
  The first joint Brandeis-Al-Quds University academic conference will take place on May 3, featuring Brandeis plenary speakers Anita Hill and Mari Fitzduff.

• Coexistence International releases country study on Ghana
  
  
• Perlmutter Institute hosts discussion with COO of World Economic Forum USA

• 2009 Asper Award recipient Linda Rottenberg talks about social entrepreneurship
  

• "Reading of Testimonies" at the Women's Studies Research Center
  

• Marta Kauffman '78 screens her new WWII-era film

March 2009

• Meet Mochila: student Arabic-jazz fusion band 

• International judge details stint on war crimes court 

• Jennifer Lin '09: Intercultural Journeys
  
  
• IBS named in two categories to The Princeton Review's "Student Opinion Honors"

• Genesis Philanthropy Group makes $10.8 million grant to Brandeis
  
  
• Brandeis delegations to Al-Quds University this spring

• "America's Shame: When are we going to do something about global poverty?"
  Peter Singer discusses one of the great moral challenges of our time.
  
  See what Brandeis students are doing about ending global poverty:
  
  • Student wins grant to aid displaced women in Uganda
  • Live Campus 2009: Students organize intercollegiate initiative to end extreme poverty by 2015
  • Positive Foundations at Brandeis University
  • Heller School at Brandeis: Programs in Sustainable International Development

• "Switching Cultural Codes": IBS Professor Andy Molinsky discusses cultural expectations and value systems
  
  
• Ethics Center Student Fellows to be renamed "Sorensen Fellows" in honor of former JFK advisor

• A conversation with Jytte Klausen about European Islam 

• Study abroad in photos: an exhibit by Dan Soley '09
  
  
• Heller student Harris Najib discusses Afghanistan's presidential race (The Huffington Post)

• Heller's Zinner Lecture to tackle illegal immigration policies
  
  
• Immersion research
  
  
• MusicUnitesUS presents Nettle: a unique intercultural experience

• Rooted cosmopolitan
  Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor Smita Tewari Jassal teaches courses in anthropology and South Asian studies. Although her travels and teaching have taken her to Poland, Israel, and the United States, her fieldwork focuses on her cultural roots in Northern India.
• Shulamit Reinharz on celebrating International Women's Day
  
  
• Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Professor Jonathan Decter awarded Salo Baron Prize

February 2009

• Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella to speak at Brandeis
  
  
• WHO Epidemiologist examines approach to AIDS fight 

• Former U.S. Rep. Howard Wolpe talks peace-building in Africa

• Dramatic portrait series intends to help survivors of Rwandan genocide
  From Feb. 23 to April 9, the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis will host the Jonathan Torgovnik portrait series “Intended Consequences.” The photographs provide an intimate look at some of the youngest victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide: children conceived from rape. With these stunning images, Torgovnik hopes to create an international response to aid these children and their mothers. 

• Students organize intercollegiate initiative to end extreme poverty by 2015 

• Social justice on wheels 

• International Business School's Chad Bown discusses American's long-running trade dispute with the E.U. (NPR)

• Brandeis Theater Company's Siddhartha a dramatic ritual 

• Dramatic portrait series intends to help survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide

• Hitting close to home: Art and human rights from slavery to Guantanamo (video)

• Brandeis students honor rabbi, extend ties to India (Boston Globe)

• 2009 Ethics Center Student Fellows named
  Six students have been selected to participate in independent summer internships abroad, addressing issues of peacebuilding and social justice. Destinations include Yemen, Jamaica, Lesotho, Peru, New Mexico, and Rwanda.

January 2009

• Mumbai diaries 

• Brandeis Theater Company to perform a unique version of "Siddhartha"

• Brandeis professors present ideas for ending Gaza conflict
  The Crown Center for Middle East Studies hosted this timely discussion on competing narratives of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, featuring visiting professor Amaney Jamal (Princeton University).  

• The sixth Brandeis Institute for International Judges concludes in Trinidad
  
  
• Students raise aid to Revive Mumbai
  
  
• Brandeis student founds a non-profit organization benefiting young women in Senegal

• A young university in India forms global relationships for sustainable development, including Brandeis
  
  
• Alumnus uses art to help orphans in Rwanda
  Tanya Fredman '08 links social justice with the creative arts in trips to Israel, Ghana, and now Rwanda. She's spend the next eight months working with orphans of genocide, sharing her art in a Kigali high school.
• Crossing boundaries through soccer (video)
  
  
• Crown Center focuses on a divided Middle East
  
  
• IBS professor honored for work in promoting women in economics