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December 2010

• IBS Student Spotlight: Jack Jia MBA ’11 (blog)
  

• Time to think, plan for 2011 Study Abroad opportunities (global news)
  
  
• Confidence and Confusion (blog)
  

• Mann: Alter trade pacts to preserve US digital edge (global news)
  
  
• Global Brandeis Profile: Ting Zhang ’11 (blog)
  

• 'Small Act' discussion focuses on unlikely givers (global news)
  

• Singaporean ambassador: Education vital to success (global news)
  

• Lumbard book wins best-of-year award (global news)
  

• Crown scholars ask: Can Kurdistan shelter Iraqi Christians? (global news)
  

• Schusterman Center unveils Israeli art collection (global news)
  

• Two-week climate change program concludes at gala (global news)
  

• Faculty approves Gateway Scholars program (global news)
  

• Professor Nasr receives the Gittler Prize (global news)
  
  
• As American as Capoeira in Damascus (blog)
  

• Ethical Inquiry: December 2010: Recommended Books From the Year (global news)
  
  
• Global Brandeis Profile: Danielle Hollenbeck-Pringle ’10 (blog)

• Midyear explores ‘pura vida’ before ’Deis (global news)
  

• Sudanese ambassador speaks about future of his nation (global news)
  
  
• Bumps and Basil (blog)

• Nasr wins Gittler Prize (global news)

• Rebuilding Haiti with justice (global news)
  
  
• Global Brandeis Profile: Professor Robert Lange (blog)
  

November 2010

• International Fellow: Haiti needs legal order, justice (global news)
  

• Initiating Social Entrepreneurship in India (global news)
  
  
• Development or Dependency? (blog)

• Shikaki sees rough road ahead for Middle East negotiations (global news)
  
  
• University reinstates grants with global aim (OGA news)
  

• Cultures come to life at Mela (global news)
  

• Exploring foreign takes on classic Shakespeare (global news)

• Exploring the 'tides' of WaterWays through film (global news)
  

• Two schools share a mastery of classical music (global news)
  

• Brandeis Theater Company gives life to Seurat's classic painting (global news)
  

• Lange, physicist emeritus, helping green East Africa (global news)
  
  
• Global Brandeis Profile: Elise Allan ’12 (blog)
  
  
• Seed grants to promote expansion of global vision (OGA news)
  
  
• University Technology Experts From the West Bank Visit Brandeis (OGA news)
  

• "No Man's Land" chronicles the tribulations of Mexican women (global news)
  

• Students stage responses (global news)
  

• From Teaching to Tanzania (global news)
  
  
• Turning Water into Cash (blog)
  

• 'Othello' -- in Hindi -- next in Shakespeare film series (global news)

• Chomsky discusses personal views on Israel (global news)
  

• Hut outside Usdan heralds weeks of climate programs (global news)
  
  
• A Day of Experiential Learning (blog)

• 'A Small Act' explores charity's ripple effects (global news)
  

• Rothchild advocates divestment from Israel (global news)
  

• BZA shows Israeli culture through food (global news)
  

• With dinner, students raise funds for Pakistan relief effort (global news)
  

• Professor Noam Chomsky makes waves at Brandeis ‘Israel Occupation Awareness Week' (global news)
  
  
• Global Impact: Preventable Blindness in Rural India (blog)
  
  
• The Other Side of Home (blog)

• Schusterman says center will teach facts about Israel (global news)
  

• Ethical Inquiry: Debating “Judicial Activism” – How Far Should Judges Go? (global news)
  

• Report on efforts to revive humanities features Brandeis, new Mandel Center (global news)
  
  
• Empowering Through Education (blog)
  

• Collecting for a cause (global news)
  

• Chomsky to speak during Israeli Occupation Awareness Week (global news)
  

• Roth shares Holocaust lessons (global news)
  

• Haiti relief gets grant (global news)
  

• Russian-American author discusses ‘Jews in her house' (global news)
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  Global Affairs Lunch Table Discussion on the Palestinian Bid to the UN
• Lunch with the German Ambassador to the U.S. (blog)
  
• Lakhpat – One of my first work projects (blog)
  
  
• IBS Alumni Spotlight: Andrew DeGuire MA ’95 (blog)
  

• 'Sunday in the Park with George' to run November 18-21 (global news)
  

• Scholar of Islam to address polygamy and human rights (global news)
  

• Catherine Mann says US job losses to China hard to gauge (global news)
  

• Garba delivers a cultural experience to campus (global news)
  
  
• Would You Like Some Ham With That? (blog)
  

October 2010

• Peacebuilding and the Arts Director Presents Keynote at International Culture Arts Network Conference, in Ireland (global news)
  

• The influence of Bollywood (global news)
  

• Students discuss Middle East in calm environment (global news)
  

• Brandeis IBS faculty member Jens Hilscher honored by Europe’s Review of Finance (global news)
  

• International judge talks death penalty (global news)
  
  
• Critical Encounters with the Arab World (blog)
  

• Judge explains decline of Russia's death penalty (global news)
  

• Schattschneider honored for essay on the uses of Japanese dolls (global news)
  

• $22.5 mil Mandel Center officially opens (global news)

• Mandels, Reinharz make eloquent case for the Humanities at center's opening (global news)
  

• Hedy Epstein discusses Israel's policies (global news)
  

• Students celebrate the Festival of Lights (global news)
  
  
• In a Pickle No More (blog)
  

• Indian cinema beginning to tackle colonial themes (global news)
  

• Renowned historian Grafton to speak at Mandel opening (global news)
  

• Total global living (global news)
  

• Picture This (global news)
  

• Artistic Expression Beyond the Classroom (global news)
  

• Life sciences summit fosters N.E.-Israel links (global news)
  
  
• Global Brandeis Profiles: Dmitry Shaplyka, MBA/MA ’12 (blog)
  

• A Haitian-American writes about the country he discovered after the 'quake (global news)
  
  
• Haiti Global Affairs Table — An Emotional and Informative Afternoon (blog)
  

• Prof and Cabinet member, both Danes, discuss Europe and Islam (global news)
  

• "Year Abroad, Queer Abroad” – student panel draws a crowd to a discussion of their experiences (global news)
  

• McHenry describes Food Not Bombs’ growth, organization’s history helping those in need (global news)
  

• Holocaust survivor speaks up for Palestine (global news)
  

• Horowitz blasts liberal nature of universities (global news)
  
  
• Sustainable International Development at Brandeis and Beyond (blog)
  
  
• A Celebration of South Asia (OGA news)
  

• Educational exchange: Brandeis alumnae talk about their Fulbright experiences (global news)
  

• Ethical Inquiry: Is capital punishment ethical? (global news)
  

• Leading economists to look at US, German policies (global news)
  
  
• Lost in Translation (blog)
  

• Look how far you can go with experiential learning (global news)
  

• Touré's African beats enchant listeners (global news)
  

• Roundtable discusses Islam in the U.S. and France, religious tolerance in the West (global news)
  
  
• Cultural Surprises in Spain (blog)
  

• Conference to explore patronage of sacred books (global news)
  
  
• IBS Alumni Spotlight: Ram Iyer MBA ’09 (blog)
  

• Finding human decency in dangerous places (global news)
  
  
• Journalist presents about reporting on international conflicts (global news)

• Breaking bread, defying borders (global news)
  
  
• International Students Ask: Why Do Americans Do That? (blog)
  

• Global Affairs Table on Haiti 9 months after quake (global news)
  

• International neuroscientists discuss recent progress (global news)
  

• British historian discusses countrymen’s love of art and travel (global news)
  

• Israeli dancers get ‘together' (global news)
  

• Lamine Touré music, student photographs evoke African spirit (global news)
  

• Touré arrives with Africa's fiery beats (global news)
  

• World music to grace Brandeis (global news)
  
  
• Images of Hope for Haiti (blog)
  
  
• That, Too, Was Liberia (blog)
  
  
• Announcing the Brandeis-India Initiative Fellows Program (OGA news)
  
  
• Third Soli Sorabjee Lecture to Explore Cinematic Interpretations of Indian History (OGA news)
  

• President Reinharz to lead next Faculty Lecture Forum (global news)
  

• Tzipi Livni speaks with community (global news)
  

• Livni calls for 2 states and Jewish renewal (global news)
  

• Peacebuilding in the Arts premieres a documentary (global news)

• Brandeis and Harvard chair Middle Eastern talk series (global news)

• Ilan Troen speaks out on proposed academic boycott of Israel (global news)
  
  
• Life in an Indian Slum (blog)
  
  
• HBI Scholars in Residence Profile Their Current Projects (blog)

• Students raise over $1,000 at Pakistan relief dinner (global news)
  

• Flood of support for Pakistan victims (global news)
  

• Sinai discusses economic future (global news)
  
  
• India’s Forgotten People (blog)

September 2010

• Salom Tajikistan! (blog)
  

• Sinai sees weak recovery and deep economic trouble (global news)
  

• New Middle East seminar to be Brandeis-Harvard joint venture (global news)
  

• Israel, South Africa, Academic Boycotts (global news)
  

• Journalist covers Afghan elections (global news)

• Students take a ‘STAND’ against genocide (global news)
  

• Students unite to help in Pakistan flood relief efforts (global news)
  

• Brandeis alumni document Costa Rican peace culture (global news)

• Major Slifka gift bolsters master's in coexistence and conflict (global news)
  

• An eye-opening, inspirational summer (global news)

• Alum's Millennium Network brings 1,000 to Columbia (global news)
  
  
• Hosts and Students Dine at the Open Doors Potluck (blog)
  

• Photojournalist displays Mexican ‘Pura Mujer’ exhibit (global news)

• Reunion for a worthy cause abroad (global news)
  

• Paul Loeb urges citizens to "get the ball rolling" (global news)

• Students initiate Pakistan relief effort after flooding (global news)
  

• Students form an Israeli-focused activist club on campus (global news)
  

• LALS 2010 newsletter released (global news)
  

• Economist Allen Sinai to address IBS' Rosenberg Institute forum (global news)
  

• Pakistan: A modern day Atlantis? (global news)
  
  
• At the Annual Study Abroad Fair (blog)
  

• Brandeis IBS to host 2010 Life Sciences Summit (global news)
  

• Brandeis-based journalist reveals why U.S. stopped adoptions from Vietnam (global news)
  

• Kadima chief Livni to discuss Israel-Diaspora relations at Brandeis forum (global news)
  
  
• Nutrition for Kids: Morsels from Japan (blog)

• IBS Student Profile: Nils Teissier du Cros (blog)

• IBS Student Profile: Tom Stretton (blog)
  

• IBS Student Profile: Jose Rodolfo Villamariona (blog)
  
  
• Sam Sisakhti MA '07 featured in Inc. Magazine (global news)
  
  
• Brandeis University to Host Global Education Forum (OGA news, blog)
  
  
• Brandeis researchers to investigate health treatment, problems of combat vets (global news)
  
  
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr awarded Gittler Prize (global news)
  
  
• Sarna writes on heightened cohesiveness of US Jewish community (global news)
  
  
• Brandeis Pluralism Alliance marking 10th anniversary looking for good ideas (global news)
  
  
• Chad Bown named to senior post on President's Council of Economic Advisers (global news)
  
  
• Sangwon Lee wins international music competition prize (global news)

• Crown Center scholars analyze peace talks, Iraq and Iran (global news)

• Between Boundaries: Students spent time in Israel and on the Mexican border to learn about cultures in conflict (global news)
  

• Cohen Center examines connection with Israel (global news)

• Film Release: "Rabin: Shivah in November" (global news)
  

• Chad Bown named to senior post on President's Council of Economic Advisers (global news)
  

• Images from abroad: Travel writing overseas (global news)
  

• Crown Center hosts panel on Mid-East politics, economics (global news)
  
  
• Hague Participants Reflect (OGA news, blog)
  

• Hadassah-Brandeis calendar features Jewish women writers from around the world (global news)
  

• New study abroad program in the Hague completes first summer (global news)
  

• The Justice reports on the experiences of Matt Kupfer '12 and Emily Canning (GRAD) in Kyrgyzstan (global news)
  

• Heller student comments on the ethics of medical testing in developing countries (global news)
  

August 2010

• Brandeis in the Hague offered a first-hand view of the capital of peace and justice (global news)
  
  
• Brandeis Renews Commitment to Global Engagement (OGA news)
  
  
• Immigrant author returns to Brandeis (global news)
  
  
• Boston Globe article cites Brandeis study on Israel birthright trips (global news)
  
  
• Brandeis Alumni Mount Medical Mission to Assist In Haiti Relief (global news)

• 1000 Things (blog)

• Brandeis Hosts Documentary Screening in New York (global news)

• The Streets of San Andres (blog)

• Daja Meston, 39; Buddhist peace hid his inner struggles (global news)
  

July 2010

• 'Glorious, Accursed Europe" by Reinharz and Shavit featured in Jewish Ideas Daily (global news)

•   Sajed Kamal touts renewable energy for Bangladesh (global news)
  

•  Matt Kupfer '12 helps train young women leaders in Kyrgyzstan (global news)

• Crown Center examines new politics of Iran (global news) 
  

• Encountering International Justice at the Hague (OGA news)
  

• WSRC fall exhibition, ‘No Man’s Land,’ will explore culture of ‘purely women’ in Oaxaca, Mexico (global news)

• Heller's Don Shepard Reports on HIV in Drug Abusers at International AIDS Conference (global news)
  

• When In Siena... (blog)

• The Next Brandeis-India Initiative Trip (OGA news)

• A Breadth of Fresh (Ocean) Air (blog)

• Finally, Il Palio (blog)

• Pre-Palio Excitement (blog)

• Final Hague Classes (blog)

• Update from the Hague (OGA news)

• Cinque Terre and Our Exhaustive Tour to Pisa (blog)
  

• Classes Begin (blog)

• Global Perspectives on Health (blog)

• Brandeis Students in India - Summer 2010 (OGA news)

• The Unpaved Road to the Future (Part II) (blog)

June 2010

• The Unpaved Road to the Future (Part I) (blog)

• "He Looked Like a Lizard" (blog)

• "Lost Boy" Pioneers an Artful Trail (global news)
  

• The Contradas of Siena (blog)

• Brandeis in the Hague (OGA news)

• Kanan Makiya analyzes Iraqi election in new Crown Center Brief (global news)

• Settling in to Siena (blog)

• Matt Kupfer ’12 reports on continuing unrest in Kyrgyzstan (global news)

• A Birthday (blog)

• Democracy in Costa Rica (blog)

• Amid the violence, Matt Kupfer '12 checks in from Kyrgyzstan (global news) 

• A History Written in Stone (global news)
  

• An Alumni Achievement (OGA news)

• Theory to Practice in Liberia (blog)

• Devika Mahadevan '00 to receive Alumni Achievement Award during this weekend's reunion (global news)

• Schuster Institute organizing U.N. panel discussion on trafficking and modern-day slavery (global news)

• A Culture of Happiness (blog)

• On Development in Mexico City (blog)

• University's four Fulbright winners headed to Sri Lanka and Latin America (global news) 
  

• An Uncommon Resolve (global news)

May 2010

• The Rise of Brazil (blog)
  

• Ambassador Michael B. Oren's Commencement Address
  
  
• Banking on Brazil (Boston Globe)
  
  
• Architects of sustainable development (blog)
  
  
• The International Business School experience (blog)

• IBS students weigh in on Google-China

• WOW Fellows head to internships around the world

• Living history while teaching it (blog)
  

• The "Israeli Obama" takes on the Y
  As CEO of the Jerusalem YMCA, Forsan Hussein '00, a former Slifka scholar, seeks to transform the Y into a dynamic interfaith peace center.

• Helping Haiti: A semester summary (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Final Haiti relief event of semester puts fundraising over $30,000

• A Fulbright Scholar from Poland hopes to pursue a career in international finance and policy-making

April 2010

• SID student implements solar panels in Nicaraguan community (blog)
  

• Panel discusses human trafficking, sex work in U.S. (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Study abroad adds program at The Hague for spring 2011 (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Brandeis IBS to explore “Clean and Green” approaches to energy issues and corporate sustainability
  

• Diplomats, artists and moral leaders to receive honorary Brandeis degrees
  

• Attacking Richard Goldstone: Personal attacks on the man who investigated the Gaza conflict by defenders of Israel are wrong
  

• Diamant and Gilmore delve into past
  

• Clashing identities connect in Klionsky's art
  

• University Will Host Engaging, Inspiring Arts During the 2010 Leonard Bernstein Festival
  

• "Hoops for Haiti" A Big Win for Relief Effort
  

• 40th Anniversary of Earth Day Will be Celebrated April 20 - 29
  

• Tauber Institute Workshop to Explore Religious and Ethnic Identity Issues in Europe

• Seoul music and more: international musicians to collaborate for Pacific Rim Festival Brandeis

• Hadassah event sheds light on experiences of children in the Holocaust (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Reinharz debriefs February trip to India, experiences (The Brandeis Hoot)

• Students to take on staff Thursday in ‘Hoops for Haiti’ game

• From the Family Business to International Business: One Fulbright Scholar's Journey from Togo to IBS

March 2010

• New Crown Center Middle East Brief: Hamas Rule in Gaza: Three Years On

• “I Have a Dream” for my Marshallese students (blog)

• Activists speak on importance of educating Sudanese girls

• Two student peace projects awarded prestigious Davis grants (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Haiti relief goal almost reached (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Child soldiers focus of event (The Brandeis Justice)
  

• Film festival will celebrate Jewish experiences (The Brandeis Justice)
  

• IBS one of 15 business schools nationwide named to The Princeton Review’s “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools"
  

• While abroad, Brandeisian finds hope amid Chilean disaster (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• 'Dreaming' captures reality of Mumbai's slums

• Kashua discusses how comedy can create cultural understanding (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Cultures Unite to Call for Peace
  

• Harvard prof. asks ‘What is justice?' (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Benjamin Skinner describes the persistence of slavery (The Brandeis Justice)

• After shock: Students react to Chilean earthquake (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Azerbaijani spiritual singers visit campus (The Brandeis Justice)

• Celebrating Korean Culture (The Brandeis Justice)

February 2010

• German green expert discusses effects of Copenhagen conference (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Skinner exposes modern slavery in Social Justice lecture (The Brandeis Hoot)
  

• Ushering in the Lunar Year (The Brandeis Justice)
  

• Talk about burqa ban before it's too late (GlobalPost)
  

• The Green Canvas: The Artist as Environmental Activist
  

• 2010 Sorensen Fellows Awarded
  

• IBS Student Aims to Build Bridges to China
  

• Student responses to the disaster in Haiti
  

• 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