News Archive: 2023
December 15, 2023
In this installment of Geeking Out With..., a series in which we talk to GSAS students about their passions, English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies master's student Ayla Cordell talks about her passion for her job with GSAS's professional development team.
December 13, 2023
Rachmiel (Rocky) Klein had been planning on a PhD in Mathematics since late high school. Applying to programs right out of undergrad, he said, was “a very humbling experience;” while he was not accepted into any PhD programs on his first attempt, he was accepted into Brandeis’s MA program in Math. Interested in Brandeis because of its strong topology program, its proximity to both nature and Boston, and his desire to move to the East Coast, Rocky decided to enter the MA program and work to enhance his resume before applying to PhD programs again.
December 1, 2023
After graduating from Brandeis with her BA in 2017, Annie Fortnow, Hornstein MA/MBA’23, spent four years working for Jewish organizations. Wanting to continue making change within the Jewish community, she thought getting a graduate degree would help her make a bigger impact. Because she wanted to get an MBA with a Jewish lens, she looked into the Hornstein Program, which she knew about from her days as an undergraduate.
November 22, 2023
Natalie Cornett, PhD’21 in History, will publish her first book with Cornell University Press in the fall of 2024. She spoke to GSAS about the process and how she transformed her dissertation into a book.
November 22, 2023
In this installment of "Geeking Out With...," a new series in which we talk to GSAS students about their passions, Molecular and Cell Biology PhD student Anjali Pandey talked about her love of science and communicating her research.
November 8, 2023
November 8, 2023 is the seventh annual First-Generation Student Celebration. GSAS talked to several of our graduate students and faculty members who were first generation students as undergraduates. Here is what they had to say.
October 24, 2023
This summer, GSAS collaborated with the Rabb School of Continuing Studies to launch a pilot program in Learning Experience Design, led by Dr. Elizabeth Santiago. A group of 10 GSAS PhD students participated in the program, which will continue into the fall.
October 20, 2023
In this installment of "Geeking Out With...," a new series in which we talk to GSAS students about their passions, we talk to Mathematics PhD student Josh Perlmutter about his love of film.
Photo Credit: Marty Samuels
October 16, 2023
On September 9 and 10, 2023, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) held a pedagogy seminar for Brandeis graduate students. Led by Dr. Marty Samuels, CTL Program Director, and Dr. Charles Chip Mc Neal, Director, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Education Learning Initiatives, the seminar aimed to teach graduate students techniques for course design and inclusive teaching, whether they were experienced instructors or soon to be standing up at the front of a classroom for the first time.
September 26, 2023
Geeking Out With...is a new feature in which we talk to GSAS students about their passions. Here, we talk to English PhD student Miranda Peery about her love of teaching.
September 19, 2023
Welcome back to the first day of school in 1953! Classes officially started for the first class of Brandeis GSAS students on Wednesday, September 30th. Read on to learn more about their experience.
September 7, 2023
For the 2023-2024 academic year, GSAS welcomes an incoming class of 236 students across more than 40 programs. Joining the GSAS community are 76 doctoral students, 132 master’s students, and 28 non-degree students.
September 1, 2023
For graduate students, summer doesn’t necessarily mean a break from work. For many, it’s a chance to build on existing skills and experiences and to further explore their academic and professional interests. This year, many GSAS students did this through summer internships, which they found in a wide range of fields and some of which were funded through Brandeis initiatives.
August 22, 2023
Shirah Malka Cohen, PhD’23 in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, reflects on her experiences at Brandeis and the reasons she chose to attend.
August 7, 2023
When Kanaya Malakar learned about the American Physical Society’s (APS) initiative to improve the situation of women in physics, she knew she wanted to become involved. The organization gives around twenty grants a year to universities to start Women in Physics groups and help with the issue of women’s underrepresentation in the field; on October 31, 2022, Malakar’s advisor, Professor Bulbul Chakraborty, forwarded her an email inviting grant proposals from students.
July 25, 2023
From June 26 to June 30, GSAS hosted Brandeis’s inaugural summer Teaching Institute in Reading-Writing Pedagogy. While particularly aimed at students who are interested in teaching positions at community colleges and access-oriented institutions, it also prepared students for teaching at other types of colleges and universities.
June 5, 2023
When Tong Lin was applying to graduate school for psychology, advisers at her alma mater of Centre College in Kentucky suggested she consider Brandeis. Why? Because even with its high level of research activity and status as an R1 University, Brandeis’ smaller classes and accessible faculty ensure that its students benefit from an extensive support system.
Tong made the decision to attend Brandeis. Today, she holds a master’s degree in Psychology and has just completed her third year as a doctoral student in the department.
May 24, 2023
Liz Mahon, fourth-year Psychology PhD student, only had a few weeks to prepare for the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) on April 28. After winning first place in her division (Sciences), the People’s Choice Award, and the highest overall score at the Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 3MT Competition on April 4 though, she was ready to rise to the occasion.
May 15, 2023
In 2023, GSAS once again honored outstanding graduate student instructors and teaching assistants across programs with the Graduate Student Teaching Awards. These awards celebrate one to two students per program who have made great contributions in teaching roles.
May 11, 2023
At the university Commencement on May 21, 2023, over 250 GSAS students will celebrate their graduation. Here are some words from the GSAS students who are going on to new paths.
April 24, 2023
Applying for external grants, fellowships, and awards is an increasingly important skill across fields–and this year, GSAS students truly showed it! Over twenty GSAS students, who came from all four divisions, received external grants and awards this year.
April 10, 2023
On April 4, 2023, The Shapiro Theater hummed with nervous energy as the finalists for the second annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition filed inside. These ten graduate students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) had made it through a preliminary round with twenty-five students, and now got to present their research one more time to a panel of judges and a new audience.
April 13, 2023
The two-year collaboration between Wayland Free Public Library (WFPL) and the Brandeis University PhD program in History started with just a phone call in the summer of 2021. It culminated in a community-wide public event on March 19, 2023.
April 7, 2023
Kerry Chase and Margie Lachman are the recipients of the 2023 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Mentoring Award.
March 31, 2023
Liz Mahon was an undergraduate at Harvard College when an Introduction to Psychology class taught by Dr. Dan Gilbert changed the trajectory of her future. While she had originally planned to major in government, her new-found passion led her in a different direction.
March 31, 2023
GSAS career fellows have engaged in a wide range of career exploration and professionalization activities during the spring 2023 semester, led by the GSAS Professional Development team.
March 20, 2023
In honor of Women's History Month, we celebrate the achievements of GSAS's women alums.
March 15, 2023
When it came to considering graduate school options, Michael Fingerman, MA/MBA’22 was advised to choose between pivoting or propelling his career. “Hornstein,” Michael explains of his former graduate program, “is more of a propelling career move.”
March 7, 2023
Dean Wendy Cadge provides an update on the anti-racism plan GSAS began developing in the fall of 2020.
February 23, 2023
Read about Michela Zaffagni's experience finding community and collaboration as a PhD student in the Molecular and Cell Biology program.
Photo Credit: Ralph Norman
February 15, 2023
In honor of Black History Month, we highlight Black scholars, alums, and faculty who played important roles in the history of GSAS.
February 3, 2023
Doctoral candidate, Tyler Hill, first considered attending Brandeis while researching C. elegans. Read about Tyler’s journey to the Neuroscience program at Brandeis and his experience in the Sengupta lab.
January 24, 2023
Last year, English PhD candidate Emiliano Gutierrez Popoca won the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at Brandeis and proceeded to compete in the national competition.
January 23, 2023
"At the end of 2020, battered by that year, faculty in Brandeis’s English Department committed to reimagining its PhD program. We couldn’t fix the world, but we could fix the curriculum."
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.