News Archive: 2019
December 18, 2019
In this episode of the Highlights Podcast, Alexander Herbert, a PhD candidate in the history department, discusses his book, What About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot.
November 26, 2019
Earlier this semester, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed eight DEIS Scholarship recipients to campus. The scholars represent the fourth cohort of the DEIS program, which began in 2016.
November 20, 2019
Brenden O’Donnell’s dissertation, Queer Temperance: Recovery as Critical Mourning, examines the representations of addiction and recovery in LGBT literature.
August 27, 2019
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences hosted 299 new students for orientation on August 23, 2019, in Slosberg Auditorium.
August 22, 2019
The Connected PhD will make the consideration of careers outside the academy an integral part of doctoral education in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at Brandeis.
June 18, 2019
PhD candidate Matthew Heck has spent his time at Brandeis investigating the nuts and bolts of Shostakovich's musical language and attempting to bring together the existing scholarship from Russian and Anglophone theorists.
May 19, 2019
"If we are going to fight prejudice, we must fight it across the board. You cannot be a fighter against antisemitism but be blind to racism or, even worse, engage in it yourself."
May 15, 2019
In March, mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck, MA’66, PhD’68, H’08, became the first woman to win the Abel Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for outstanding work in the field of mathematics.
May 15, 2019
Exiled by political events in his native China, novelist Ha Jin, MA’89, PhD’93, H’05, discovered freedom writing in the English language.
May 9, 2019
Ryan Marcus, PhD’19, discusses how machine learning can address the increasing complexity associated with cloud computing and existing data systems.
May 8, 2019
The GSAS dean honored this year's most outstanding teaching assistants with a ceremony in the Mandel Center on May 8.
May 2, 2019
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has awarded seven University Prize Instructorships to doctoral students in Anthropology, Mathematics, Music Theory and Composition, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Neuroscience, and Psychology.
April 29, 2019
John Bergdall works as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr having performed postdoctoral research at Boston University and the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
April 12, 2019
Dmitry Kleinbock has received the 2019 Dean’s Mentoring Award. He is the first professor of mathematics to win the award.
April 3, 2019
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has awarded Dissertation Year Fellowships to seven doctoral candidates in Anthropology, English, History, Music Composition and Theory, and Politics.
April 3, 2019
Valente is planning a series of portraits of scientists for her spring exhibition. She majored in chemistry as an undergraduate, so she has a deep appreciation for science and the scientific community.
March 22, 2019
Chris Konow researches the impact of growth on Turing patterns in the Epstein Lab. Turing patterns are named after the British mathematician Alan Turing, who proposed a mechanism for how differentiation can occur within a homogeneous system.
March 21, 2019
Jack E. Davis, PhD’94, returned to campus on March 19, 2019 to give a talk about his Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea."
March 18, 2019
Veronica Flores, PhD’19, discusses her work across the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience in the Katz lab.
March 12, 2019
Christian Gochez became interested in biotechnology when he discovered the potential of genetically modified foods. He wants to understand how gene editing techniques can enrich crops to combat nutrient deficiencies in populations experiencing severe poverty.
March 7, 2019
Michelle Guaman was drawn to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies because of her passion for women's reproductive health, education, and justice.
February 27, 2019
Habiba Farh studies the political trajectories of Arab-Americans in contemporary American society, specifically how the politicization of Arab-Americans growing up after the 9/11 attacks compares to the politicization of Arab-Americans who witnessed the attacks first hand.
February 22, 2019
Brittany Cassidy, PhD’14, is interested in how we observe and evaluate others in our daily encounters. Earlier this year, the Association for Psychological Science recognized Cassidy as a Rising Star.
February 12, 2019
PhD candidate Adrianna Shy’s first interaction with Brandeis came in 2016, when she participated in a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
February 11, 2019
At the end of his senior year of college, Jeremy Mele, MA’18, realized that he wanted to pursue a degree in Philosophy. Little did he know that his interest would eventually lead to a run for local office in his home state of Maine.
February 4, 2019
Víctor Suárez discusses his experience in the dual MS/MBA program in biotechnology and business at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Heller School of Social Policy at Brandeis.
Brandeis University announces the launch of four new academic schools
Brandeis University announced a bold academic realignment, establishing four new schools that integrate its graduate professional programs into its liberal arts curriculum.