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Shiller’s Work Featured in Forbes

Economics professor Benjamin Shiller’s research paper on customized online pricing – charging different consumers different prices for the same product – was recently featured in a Forbes article. The...

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Mandel Humanities Center’s Contemporaneity Working Group

The Mandel Humanities Center’s Contemporaneity Working Group wishes to extend an open invitation to join us this semester. We meet for an hour and a half three times a semester, usually in the Mandel...

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New journal explores signs across cultures, disciplines

The journal Signs and Society connects Brandeis and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies of South Korea. By Leah Burrows Oct. 8, 2013 From BrandeisNOW   Richard Parmentier, professor of anthropology...

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“Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939″ By Thomas Doherty

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Jennifer Finney Boylan offers the 10th annual Eleanor Roosevelt lecture in...

On October 15th, best selling author and celebrated LGBT activist Jennifer Finney Boylan offered the 10th annual Eleanor Roosevelt lecture in Women’s and Gender Studies entitled “She’s Not There,”...

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Can Self-Referencing Contribute to Memory Errors? – By Dr. Nicole Rosa

A recent paper in the Journal of Gerontology by Brandeis Ph.D. program alumnus Dr. Nicole Rosa and Professor Angela Gutchess attempts to answer this question. During an interview with ElderBranch, Dr....

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“World War I in the Historical Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois””

On Thursday, November 21, Professor Williams from the African and Afro-American Studies Department will give a talk titled, “World War I in the Historical Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois.”” The event...

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Brandeis Senior Dan Leisman presents at the Pediatric Academic Societies’...

Brandeis senior Dan Leisman will be traveling to Vancouver this May to present at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ annual meeting. Leisman will discuss his clinical research study on 24 hour blood...

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2014 Davis Peace Prize Winners

The Davis Projects for Peace initiative encourages students to design grassroots projects for peace that they themselves will implement anywhere in the world.  In this year’s round of applications,...

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Food for the future: A vision for New England farming and food production

Reposted from BrandeisNOW By Julian Cardillo Aug. 29, 2014 Cut down trees to benefit the environment and improve human health? That may seem counter-intuitive, but Brian Donahue, professor of...

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Doherty Presents Hollywood and Hitler: The back story, at Drew University,...

In the last years of the 20th century, Hollywood was big on causes. But in the 1930s, American cinema was virtually silent on one of history’s most urgent moral issues: The rising persecution of Jews...

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How New England could become Farmville again

In an article in the Boston Globe, Professor Brian Donahue discusses his “elaborate report laying out a scenario in which New England, in the year 2060, has three times as much farmland as it does...

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Researcher Calls “Successful Aging” Form of Ageism

Following her presentation at the Gerontological Society of America in November, Professor Sarah Lamb’s story was featured in New American Media. Discussing America’s obsessions with staying forever...

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$4.5 million grants to boost hospital chaplain research literacy

Original article from BrandeisNOW! Two grants totaling $4.5 million over four years from the John Templeton Foundation will better equip hospital chaplains to use research to guide, evaluate and...

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Nail Salon Worker Toxic Exposure Studies Cited by Boston Globe

Image from The Boston Globe Brandeis students continue to make meaningful, newsworthy change for good. On May 12, 2015 the Boston Globe addressed the regulation and safety of Massachusetts nail salons,...

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