June 2024

Features

Jamie Wire in a red sleeveless top standing in front of a multicolored-lit wall

June 19, 2024

With a background in advocating for LGBTQ+ communities, Jamie Wire aims to foster resilience and empowerment among students at Brandeis.

Brandeis students stand in front of a tropical hillside in Puerto Rico.

June 17, 2024

Brandeis has launched its inaugural study abroad program in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Black and white photo of four people inside WBRS radio station in 1990

June 17, 2024

The Summer 2024 edition of Brandeis Magazine delivers compelling features, captivating photos, new books by our faculty and alumni, campus news and much more.

A student sews

June 5, 2024

“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.

June 4, 2024

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 clings to a small hold on an indoor climbing wall covered in plastic holds in a variety of colors.

June 3, 2024

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.

A collage of multiple book covers

June 3, 2024

We asked faculty across the university to suggest their favorite books for the dog days of summer.

Kristianna sits in an arm chair with a yellow pillow. There is a yellow flag hanging in the background and half of the photo has a pink overlay.

As a peer mentor in the Gender and Sexuality Center, Kristianna L. ’24 has a lot to be proud of.

Painting by Lari Pittman that featured bottles labeled "Queenliness"

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.

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In the News

June 27, 2024
Panorama

Article written by professor Nader Habibi

June 24, 2024
The Juggernaut

Quote from Harleen Singh, Associate Professor and Senior Associate Provost for Faculty and Global Affairs

June 24, 2024
New York Times

Professor Margie Lachman quoted

June 18, 2024
Neo Kosmos

Article by Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Joel Christensen

June 13, 2024
American Prospect

Opinion piece written by Heller Professor Robert Kuttner

June 6, 2024
WGBH

President Ron Liebowitz interviewed

June 4, 2024
Fife Today

Research co-managed by Brandeis cited

June 1, 2024
Transmitter Podcast

University Professor Eve Marder interviewed

Of Note

Jonathan Sarna

June 27, 2024

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.

June 19, 2024

The Hebrew Olympiad is an international competition to demonstrate Hebrew proficiency.