Newsmakers
February 19, 2021
Quinn Weiner ’21 uses they/them pronouns. This is just one of the ways they're challenging society's ideas about gender.
February 12, 2021
Kendal Chapman '22 advocates for her fellow students as Student Union President.
February 8, 2021
Ido Dinnar is one of 12 students who work as site managers at Brandeis University’s COVID-19 campus testing centers.
January 25, 2021
BrandeisNOW asks undergraduates to share pieces of advice for fellow returning students and newly-arriving midyear students who will have to manage university life under similar circumstances as last fall.
November 19, 2020
Every week, Joseph Gelfinbein '21 co-leads an after-school activity session in Waltham where he helps elementary-school age kids conduct experiments that result in fun end products like lava lamps, malleable putties or a gooey substance fondly called “elephant toothpaste."
September 22, 2020
A new resource created by two Brandeis undergraduates serves as a central place for connections between Brandeis and its home city.
August 14, 2020
Jason Frank '22, an anthropology major and queer and sexuality studies minor is authoring the study, “Fairies and Funnies: Gay Men in Standup Comedy.”
June 21, 2020
Marissa Torelli '22 is an intern in the office of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. The internship, which is funded by the Hiatt Career Center’s World of Work program, provides an opportunity to receive hands-on experience outside of the classroom.
June 17, 2020
Jay Collay '22 got started with the Queer Oral History at Brandeis Project after spotting a listing for an undergraduate research assistant position in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program.
May 15, 2020
When Ana Sazonov, MA/MBA’21 learned there were frontline healthcare workers in Boston-area hospitals who did not have access to Passover meals because of their long hours, she jumped into action.
February 28, 2020
Journalist, filmmaker and activist Jose Antonio Vargas will be the keynote speaker at this year's Deis Impact, Brandeis University's annual festival of social justice.
February 13, 2020
While taking professor Faith Smith’s course Literature of the Caribbean in the spring of 2019, Dannie Brice ’20 had a moment of enlightenment. Read more at Brandeis NOW.
August 15, 2019
Arts and sciences undergrads present the findings of their scientific research at annual event.
August 6, 2019
This summer, Kate Laemmle, a double major in environmental studies and politics, made some new friends: Etch-A-Sketch, Sprinkles, Owl and Shuffleboard, to name a few. They're all humpback whales.
July 25, 2019
Business student Elan Kawesch '20 organizes trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau for Boston-area college students.
April 26, 2019
Avi Hirshbein ’19 realized what he wanted for a career early in his first year at Brandeis: He set his sights on the music industry. Brandeis didn’t have a major or program specific to the music industry, but it did offer resources and a community that served as a canvas for him to create his own vision.
April 18, 2019
When she’s not on the fencing strip, Joanne Carminucci ’19 — a politics and economics double major from Brewster, New York — is likely working with professor Jill Greenlee on research related to political and gender socialization in children.
April 17, 2019
Growing up in Jacksonville, Florida, Alli Steinberg ’19 always felt a little out of place. That all changed at Brandeis, where the art history and business double-major has found a home as a gallery guide and cutorial intern at the Rose Art Museum.
March 27, 2019
Of the new members, 81 come from the class of 2019 and eight hail from the class of 2020. They will be recognized in a ceremony during commencement weekend.
March 18, 2019
She’s a student union representative to the board of trustees, an undergraduate departmental representative for the peace, conflict and coexistence studies program, and has served as a student ambassador for the Brandeis National Committee. But her heart and soul lies with '
March 15, 2019
He's gone to the Hague for an internship at the International Criminal Court, participated in clubs like the Brandeis Immigration Education Initiative, and worked at the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy. During all these experiences, Santiago Montoya Palacios '19 has had one central question in mind: Will this help make a positive change in the world?
March 5, 2019
Like his father before him, aspiring computer scientist Aichuck Tripura '22 has turned his educational dreams into reality as part of Brandeis' renowned Wien Scholarship Program, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.