Newsmakers

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Professor Karen V. Hansen awarded Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge grant

June 10, 2020

Hansen was awarded $100,000 grant for an 18-month poverty and economic mobility study and will partner with Boston University professor Nazli Kibria. 

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Brandeis faculty honored with annual teaching and mentorship awards

May 27, 2020

Antonella Di Lillo, Hannah Muller, Faith Smith, Timothy Streets, and Michael Willrich have been recognized for their excellence in the classroom with 2019-20 teaching awards.
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Brandeis Faculty Fighting COVID19

April 27, 2020

Computational linguist James Pustejovsky developed an artificial intelligence program at Brandeis to help biologists find a coronavirus cure. 
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Piali Sengupta named AAAS Fellow

November 26, 2019

Professor of biology Piali Sengupta has been selected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Professor Amber Spry on political attitudes and polling

October 28, 2019

With the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump well underway, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Politics Amber Spry, offers up her expertise in political attitudes and polling.

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The power of the arts to address conflict

October 21, 2019

Dancer, anthropologist and human rights practitioner Toni Shapiro-Phim has joined the faculty of the Creativity, Arts and Social Transformation (CAST) minor, initiated and administered by the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. She recently sat down with her colleague and fellow anthropologist Leigh Swigart to describe her longtime engagement in the field of human rights and the arts.

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Remembering the Red Summer, 100 years later

August 1, 2019

On NPR podcast, Chad Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History and chair of the African and African American studies department, discusses the series of violent attacks against African American soldiers upon their return from World War I between April and November 1919.

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Embracing the archive as a generative force

June 18, 2019

In Voices of Contemporary Art podcast, fine arts' Tory Fair (left) discusses how her research and interviews with artists, presented in a 1996 exhibition "More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction," inspired her latest work.

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Three A&S faculty celebrated with teaching awards

May 6, 2019

Elizabeth Brainerd (left), the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in Economics and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Naghmeh Sohrabi (center), the Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History; and Keith Merrill, assistant professor of mathematics were recognized for their excellence in the classroom.