Brandeis Magazine

Martha Friedman makes artwork on paper in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work can be viewed at her website and the Speedway Gallery, in Boston. Philip Grossman, retired from practicing medicine, runs a consulting company, teaches, and enjoys boating. His older son welcomed a third child, and his younger son is about to be married. Real estate developer and philanthropist Moses Libitzky helped purchase and will help transform a property in Oakland, California, that was formerly the campus and corporate offices of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream into a hub for dozens of Jewish nonprofits, including the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay. University Professor Eve Marder, the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfeld Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis, received an honorary degree from Princeton University during its commencement ceremonies in May. Neil Nyren wrote the first chapter in the Mystery Writers of America’s handbook “How To Write a Mystery,” published by Scribner in 2021. He writes about crime fiction and publishing for BookTrib, CrimeReads, and many other outlets, and is a winner of the Ellery Queen Award for excellence in mystery publishing, presented by the MWA. Ellen C. Schwartz writes, “I retired in 2018 after 41 years of teaching art history at Eastern Michigan University. After seven years of work, my edited volume ‘The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Art and Architecture’ was published at the end of 2021.” And “best of all,” Ellen reports, her younger son, Bram Wayman, married Val Neff-Rasmussen in August.