Scene at Brandeis: January 2025

January 31, 2025

By Dan Holmes and Gaelen Morse

Scene at Brandeis is a recurring feature highlighting the work of Brandeis' staff photographers. 

See more photos on Instagram and Facebook, and in the Scene at Brandeis archive.

Welcome back, Brandeisians! January has been a busy time on campus and we’re excited to start this new year with you.

Two students sit side by side in a sunny hallway looking at their laptops.
Monica C. ’26 and Justin K. ’27 catch up in the Mandel Center for the Humanities during the first day of classes of the Spring 2025 semester.

Some of you arrived earlier this month and joined our growing campus community during midyear student move-in.

A new student moves into a Brandeis dorm room.
Students push their luggage up a hill on the Brandeis campus.
A student builds a shelving caddy.
Two people walk towards the entrance of a building with luggage.
A bird sits on the top of the Louis Brandeis statue.
A bird sits atop the Louis Brandeis statue on a clear day on the Brandeis campus.

Speakers and guests brought us together to reflect on our past and to imagine our futures.

Rev. Dr. Brandon Thomas Crowley delivers a speech at a podium.
Rev. Dr. Brandon Thomas Crowley delivers a speech to Brandeis students, faculty, and staff during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.

Exciting things are happening in the Department of Theater Arts as students and staff begin bringing the spring productions to life.

A person works drills a screw into a long wooden plank in a workshop.
Assistant Technical Director Carolyn D. works in the Spingold Theater scene shop constructing the set for the Brandeis Department of Theater Arts' production of “Intractable Woman.”
A person paints in a workshop.
Visiting set painter Saskia M. puts the finishing touches on a canvas on the paint deck inside Spingold Theater in preparation for "Intractable Woman."
Many students sit at tables in the Shapiro Campus Center.
Students study, rest, and socialize in the Shapiro Campus Center.
A student serves another student tea in a cafe.
Richard L. ’26 serves tea at a meeting for the Brandeis Tea Club, a club dedicated to spreading a culture of tea appreciation across campus.
A student paints at an easel.
Hayley V. ’26 works at an easel in Ariel Freiberg’s Beginning Painting: Visual Possibilities (FA 11B) class.
A student paints at an easel.
Elisabeth G. ’28 paints a still life in Beginning Painting: Visual Possibilities (FA 11B).
A collage featuring a student cleaning off paint brushes in a jar and a paint-stained coffee cup.

Whether you’re hard at work, spending time with friends, or studying in a cozy room while the snow falls outside, we’ve loved sharing this month with you.

A student walks on the Brandeis campus. There is a group of geese in the foreground.
A student is accompanied to class by a gaggle of Canadian Geese.