Brandeis University News

Payette, a Boston-based architectural design firm, was recently honored with multiple industry design awards from the New England Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Boston Society of Architects , bringing its total for 2009 to ten awards to date.

Gail Rosengard considers being part of the team that helped Lawrence High School regain its accreditation in 2004 as the most rewarding experience of her 34 years as a city educator.

On September 23, 2007, the popular webcomic XKCD had its first meet-up. The date was given as an Easter egg in a normal strip, which gave the time, dated, latitude and longitude of a playground not for from the home of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD on a Sunday afternoon in September.

Our winter books quarterly presents book suggestions for everyone you know. Here, gripping tales of conquests both real and imagined: Azincourt By Bernard Cornwell .

November 27, 2009, 08:35 AM - Open source software practically begs to be tinkered with.

"It's terrible to be here when you're hungry," admits Jesse Werner. He's standing in the processing room at the Plymouth Cheese Factory surrounded by edible temptations of his own creation.

Brandeis University Professor Anita Hill, who rose to national fame during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is the newest trustee at Southern Vermont College.

This past year I attended a high school graduation during which the school celebrated sending off the members of yet another class of students to their respective futures.

Full Frame features photo essays and conversations with photographers in the field.

The event will be held on a Saturday evening at December 5 at 7:00 pm. The congregation invites people to sit back and relax with good friends.

As a college freshman at Brandeis University, an essentially Jewish school, Dvora Weisberg was shocked when her new Catholic roommate asked her, "Why did you kill Jesus?" Weisberg, who spoke Monday at Temple Israel's E.N. Lubin Clergy Institute on Judaism, is now director of the School of Rabbinic Studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish ...

PRESS RELEASE HEI Hotels & Resorts announces the acquisition of the 275-room Doubletree Guest Suites in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Today the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University's Heller School released a new research and policy brief which reports that four in ten U.S. families lack sufficient assets to pay for essential expenses in the face of unemployment.

Members of QRC, Aaron Breslow '10 and Chase Hiller '12, spend time in the Trisk?office. Media Credit: Davida A. Judelson The Triskelion office, which is located on the third floor of the Shapiro Campus Center, is a safe space for students to discuss sexual identity, discrimination and other GLBTQ-related topics.

Renowned Harvard Divinity School theologian analyzes how he believes Christian beliefs and dogma appear to be inspiring grassroots movements in social justice.

Tatyana Faynberg , a Russian immigrant, was interviewed by Tufts medical students, from left, Michael Castellot, Robert Mendenhall, and Peilan Tang in her Brighton housing complex.

Fulton-Montgomery Community College students got a fast-paced lesson in health care reform during a guest lecture at the college Monday.

The third annual Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Young Leadership's Roaring '20s Old Hollywood gala, at the historic Los Angeles Theatre downtown, includes casino gambling, dinner and an open bar.

In keeping with their proud tradition of pushing the envelope, The Student Productions Association of Lane Community College will stage Michael Weller's experimental, unpublished work Dwarfman, Master of a Million Shapes .

Pediatricians and pediatric oncologists express differing views on religion and spirituality, largely based on the types of patients they treat, according to a survey that will appear in the current edition of the journal Social Problems.