The Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion invites you to attend one of the many scheduled Deis Impact events during our annual festival of social justice.

Please visit our website for event details and dates, and for more information on Deis Impact’s history. Feel free to contact us at diversity@brandeis.edu with any questions or inquiries.

Sign up today for a Warner Farm CSA share and receive a personalized box of fresh, delicious, locally grown vegetables, delivered right to the Brandeis campus. Our CSA program offers the option to customize your shares and your delivery schedule, so you’ll receive all the produce you love and nothing you don’t. Choose from three sizes of vegetable shares, as well as fruit, flower, mushroom, egg, and bread shares. Deliveries take place from June through October, every Thursday from 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. right to the Spingold Theater. It's the best way to eat healthy and local this season without breaking the bank. Signup before March 31 and receive $10 in credit to use on extra veggies and other good stuff during the season. Visit Warner Farm CSA or email csa@warnerfarm.com to learn more.

The Office of Finance and Administration will be selling tickets to the 2022 Boston Red Sox home games, available for purchase by faculty, staff and post-docs. For information please visit the Office of the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration website.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is issuing a call for administrative units to host a Higher Ed Administrative Intern. As part of the Andrew W. Mellon Connected PhD Grant awarded to GSAS, the goal of this program is to provide opportunities for PhD students to gain administrative and project experience. Below are descriptions of the expectations for host units and our requirements for an internship proposal:

• Commitment to provide meaningful supervision and professional development mentoring, including shadowing
• Availability of a project with a concrete deliverable component
• Completion of a supervision report and any other surveys required by the grant assessment needs
• Internship should take place between May 16 and August 31, 2022, with an expectation of 200 hours of work ($4000, $20 per hour rate).

Submission instructions: Brief (1-2 paragraph) description of position and project, 3-5 learning objectives of the position, and supervisory structure.

If you'd like to propose a position, please submit a proposal by April 15 to ConnectedPhD@brandeis.edu. We are also happy to answer questions and give feedback on proposals prior to the deadline.

We have entered into the shoulder months for heating/cooling; the months whose temperatures range between 40 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooler mornings followed by warmer afternoons make maintaining temperature comfort in our facilities a challenge. Even if you are in a facility with air conditioning, the campus operates on a dual system which means our systems are either in heating mode or cooling mode. Currently we are still in “heating” season and will start to switch to cooling mode from mid-April to mid-May.

Consequently, during these shoulder months there will be days when your office/room temperature is not as cool as you want it to be. Most days, the outside temperature will be cooler than the temperature in your buildings so we recommended you open your windows, if you can, to help bring additional cooler outside air into your areas for additional comfort.

We understand that at times this may be uncomfortable but we ask for your patience during these New England shoulder months and this switch-over. In April, facilities will start to switch over to cooling first in the Science Buildings, then will move to the Residence Halls, followed by the Academic Buildings. The complete switch over will likely take a month to fully complete. To submit a work request for facilities issues, visit the Facilities Services website.

Athletics is offering a free adult learn to swim class for Brandeis faculty & staff and grad students. Learn basic swimming skills to feel more comfortable and enjoy spending time in the water with family and friends this summer. Join us for the final two sessions of the class on Wednesday, March 30 and Wednesday, April 6 from 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. at Linsey Pool. Visit the Aquatics page for additional information and to register.

On Friday, April 1, Center for Spiritual Life will hold our annual memorial service in remembrance of those who have died in the past year. Please join us at noon in Fellows Garden.

Our hope is that this memorial service offers a measure of comfort and consolation to those grieving and strengthens our sense of community and solidarity. If you would like a loved one to be remembered at the service, please complete this form by Monday, March 28.

The LATTE team would like to direct faculty and students who have help requests to use the new ‘Submit an ITS Support Request’ link that now appears at the footer of every page. The link also appears in the LATTE Course Tools (faculty) and Student Course Tools (students) blocks. By using this link, users will be directed to a pre-populated form that captures the site page (i.e., URL) and relevant information that will provide ITS with information to troubleshoot the help request. Upon submission, the form will automatically generate a support ticket on the user’s behalf. For more information about the new feature, please contact help@brandeis.edu.

How we organize our economy, finance investments and manage innovation will change dramatically in the coming decades. Join us virtually as we explore the risks and opportunities posed by climate change. This annual program is sponsored by the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship. Public events start April 8 with a conversation on ESG with Robert S. Kaplan of Harvard Business School and Bonnie Wongtrakool of Western Asset Management. For full event details, please visit the Business of Climate Change 2022 webpage. Any additional questions, please contact Kimberly Airasian.

• Researching in Archives, 11 - 11:30 a.m., Friday, April 8
• Introduction to Arduino Electronics Workshop, weekly Mondays at 10 a.m.
• Digital Scholarship Lab Access Orientation, weekly Tuesdays at 11 a.m.
• Intro to 3D Printing with Flashforge
• Brandeis MakerLab, Automation Lab and Digital Scholarship Lab Tour!, weekly Thursdays at 9 a.m.
• Intro to 3D Scanning, weekly Fridays at 9 a.m.

Open to all members of the teaching community!

• LATTE Office Hours, weekly 10 a.m., Fridays
• Using the Jamboard software for Teaching, weekly at 10 a.m. on Thursdays
• Teaching with Archives, 3 - 3:30 p.m., Thursday, April 7

Eligible Brandeis faculty and staff can enjoy tuition remission of one-third the price when they send their teen to Brandeis Precollege Programs! This summer, we’ll offer on-campus Genesis and the Summer Residency for Women’s Health (two credits!) as well as online programming like Climate Justice, Introduction to Civil Litigation and more. For additional information, please contact precollege programs or 781-736-8416.

The next Waltham Group Blood Drive will be held on Monday, April 11 and Wednesday, April 13 from 1-6 p.m. The blood drive will be in Sherman Function Hall. Students, faculty, and staff can sign up at the Red Cross site. Any questions can be directed to wg-blooddrive@brandeis.edu.

The Office of Admissions will be welcoming admitted students and their families to visit Brandeis this spring on five weekday mornings in March and April. Families who drive to campus will be instructed to park in the Theater Lot. To ease congestion in the Theater Lot, we ask that Brandeis staff members who normally park there to instead park in Lot J (across from University Office Park on Angleside Road), where shuttle service will be provided for those who do not want to walk to campus. Employees may also decide, with manager approval, to work remotely for the day, if their role allows for it.

The "Inside Deis" admitted student events are on March 28, April 4, April 8, April 14, and April 25.

Thank you for your support in helping us bring the next class of Brandeis students to our community.

The Workday Team is pleased to announce Workday Wednesdays, a 60-minute session held on Wednesdays from noon - 1 p.m., that provides faculty, staff, and students (topic dependent) an opportunity to meet with members to learn more about a given topic, task or process in Workday. Upcoming sessions topics include Managing Programs of Study, Managing the Student Employment Process, Entering Grades, and Using Class Rosters and Enrollment Reports. Visit the Workday@Brandeis website for session dates, corresponding topics, and Zoom link (registration not required). To submit a suggestion or request a specific topic, please reach out using the suggestion box. For more information or questions about using Workday, please contact help@brandeis.edu.

Brandeis faculty, staff, and students should continue to direct all tech-related inquiries to the Help Desk by submitting a help request, sending an email to help@brandeis.edu, or calling 781-736-4357. The team has resumed their regular schedule of Mon-Fri, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Sat-Sun, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. with in-person support available by appointment only. Visit the ITS website to view the complete Help Desk schedule for the Spring semester including exceptions. A knowledgeable team of technology support specialists are ready to help you and will continue to adhere to university and health guidelines to ensure the safety of both the team and the community.

Brandeis is excited to be hosting our first ever three minute dissertation competition (3MT).

The Brandeis 3MT competition is a university-sponsored speaking competition designed to showcase graduate student research in three-minute talks to a general audience. This is an opportunity for graduate students engaged in original research to develop communication and presentation skills while sharing their work with faculty, staff, and students across Brandeis University.

Please register to attend the final round on April 7, 7-9 p.m. The winner goes on to the next levels of competition.