Brandeis Magazine

Perry Letourneau is an actor and comedian based in Chicago. His show “Rat Mass,” which satirizes cults, placed first runner-up in the Chicago Reader’s poll for Best Comedy Show of 2023 and was an official selection of the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Emi Cohen, who began an MA/MS program in history, and library and information science at Simmons University last fall, celebrated the publication of her second novel, “Golemcrafters,” in November 2024.

Cyril Ojilere is a student at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine.

Amy Chen received a 2024-25 Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, which helps defray the travel and living expenses of visual and fine arts students doing research outside the United States. Amy, who has a master’s in the history of art from Williams College, is studying mid- to late-18th-century chinoiserie wall hangings in historical houses across England. Her research seeks to shed light on overlooked aspects of cultural contact and aesthetic exchange in the early modern world.

Cesar Guerra has been recognized as a Community Impact Hero by the American Red Cross of Massachusetts. He is operations manager at the Mass General Brigham Community Care Van program.

Winston Wolf is pursuing a master’s degree in emergency and disaster management at Tel Aviv University, in Israel. Working with the head of trauma surgery at Holon’s Wolfson Medical Center, he’s conducting research on how knowledgeable patients are with the hospital’s mass-casualty incident protocols.