June 2024
Features
With a background in advocating for LGBTQ+ communities, Jamie Wire aims to foster resilience and empowerment among students at Brandeis.
Brandeis has launched its inaugural study abroad program in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Summer 2024 edition of Brandeis Magazine delivers compelling features, captivating photos, new books by our faculty and alumni, campus news and much more.
“Indigo Road” is a fiber art sculpture project that helps tell the story of enslaved people who worked on U.S. indigo plantations, and its connection to the cultural history of American blue jeans.
Lavender Graduation is an annual ceremony conducted on numerous campuses to honor the LGBTQIA+ community and to acknowledge their achievements and contributions to the university.
Sora Haagensen ’25 is on her way to the top — literally. At the end of May, she represented Brandeis at the 2024 USA Climbing collegiate national championship near Phoenix, Arizona.
We asked faculty across the university to suggest their favorite books for the dog days of summer.
As a peer mentor in the Gender and Sexuality Center, Kristianna L. ’24 has a lot to be proud of.
Celebrate Pride Month with a virtual talk featuring museum staff who identify as LGBTQ+, who will explore contemporary artists whose works build new worlds from queer perspectives.
In the News
Article written by professor Nader Habibi
Quote from Harleen Singh, Associate Professor and Senior Associate Provost for Faculty and Global Affairs
Professor Margie Lachman quoted
Professor Jim Storer featured
Article by Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Joel Christensen
Opinion piece written by Heller Professor Robert Kuttner
President Ron Liebowitz interviewed
Research co-managed by Brandeis cited
University Professor Eve Marder interviewed
Of Note
University Professor Jonathan Sarna ’75, GSAS MA’75, the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, is this year’s recipient of the American Jewish Historical Society’s Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award.
The Hebrew Olympiad is an international competition to demonstrate Hebrew proficiency.