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Library News Archive: 2023

Six people stand in a ballpark.
RTI/Brandeis MakerLab Collaborates with Boston's Loop Lab to Develop Open Source Courseware: Drone Curriculum for Cinematography

November 3, 2023

In mid-August, the RTI department built and ran a 1-week curriculum for the LOOP Lab on using Drones for Aerial Photography and filmmaking. This includes everything from learning to fly a drone, up to getting an FAA pilot's license and insurance.

Students sit in small groups around tables. A computer screen sits on a podium in the foreground. Text on a computer screen reads, "Let's practice writing some learning objectives! Choose a topic from a class that you are teaching this year. Write: One overarching learning goal What should students know, appreciate, or understand after a particular class meeting? Two specific, concrete, measurable learning objectives (using an action verb; what can they do if they know or understand the learning goal?) What are two skills students should learn during a class meeting?"
GSAS Students Gain Community and New Teaching Strategies Through Center for Teaching and Learning Pedagogy Seminar

October 16, 2023

On September 9 and 10, 2023, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) held a pedagogy seminar for Brandeis graduate students. The seminar aimed to teach graduate students techniques for course design and inclusive teaching, whether they were experienced instructors or teaching for the first time.

Archival photo of two people in the library stacks looking at open books.
Learn about Brandeis history in celebration of the 75th anniversary! 

October 3, 2023

Check out the University Archives research guide, which includes interviews, films, photographs, and more, or our various displays around the library. Recently, staff from the archives assisted with images used in a variety of articles featured in the Summer 2023 Brandeis Magazine and assisted with the campus timeline.

A black and white photograph of Louis Brandeis and his children in a meadow.
At Home with Justice Brandeis and Family: The Brandeis / Popkin Room

June 5, 2023

The Brandeis Library’s University Archives and Special Collection is happy to announce the newly completed exhibit: "At Home with Justice Brandeis and Family: The Brandeis/Popkin Room". Located on Goldfarb 1 near the group study rooms, this exhibit features  furniture and objects from the summer home of Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.

The people in a semi circle showing a photo of a young boy
Brandeis University Archives & Special Collections acquires six original Roman Vishniac photographs

January 13, 2023

A few months back, Peter Rothstein ‘66 approached the library with an offer of six historic prints by Roman Vishniac, the iconic photographer of pre-World War II Jewish life in eastern Europe.