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Arnold Barbeiro Jr. has been named 2012 valedictorian and Mark Hennigan named salutatorian at the Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

Two Jewish lesbian authors, Fay Jacobs and Rabbi Andrea Myers , are known for using wit and wisdom in their memoir writing, and both have just recently been named to the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow List.

Last week, more than 100 academics gathered at Brandeis University's Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies to analyze an unlikely research subject - Taglit-Birthright Israel.

Expansive Archives of B'nai B'rith Relocates to the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio At the AJA, the collection of the most important Jewish membership organization in American Jewish history will be accessible to scholars, researchers and students the world over B'nai B'rith International-widely considered by scholars and historians to ... (more)

Four generations of Harvard University psychologists - William James, William McDougall, Henry Murray, and David McClelland -- suggested that human needs are keys for understanding who we are.

A collection of pieces by Bryan Shea, a Brewster resident, will be on display at the Studio Around the Corner A Saturday afternoon.

From now until November, President Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will emphasize their differences.

No. 5: Babson College. With its main campus in tony Wellesley, tuition costs at Babson make it the fifth most expensive college in Massachusetts.

The Tufts University Art Gallery at the Shirley and Alex Aidekman Arts Center proudly presents The Boston-Jo'burg Connection: Collaboration and Exchange at Artist Proof Studio, 1983-2012. The exhibition will include more than 150 individual and collaborative fine art prints spanning some twenty-five years by several dozen artists from Boston and ... (more)

As the school year winds down, the West Essex Board of Education took the time to honor both their students and teachers at Monday's Board of Education meeting.

It will be an emotional night for the 610 Norcross High School seniors who say goodbye to their grade school years when they're handed their diplomas Thursday at 8:00 p.m. at their graduation ceremony held at the Arena at the Gwinnett Center on Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth.

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A female at a Brandeis University research lab sustained chemical burns today, according to reports.

Brandeis University senior Chris Brown of North Chelmsford has been named the Division III New England Outdoor Track and Field Track Athlete of the Year by the Unites States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

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Islesboro Central School class of 2012, will graduate at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 10, in the school's Kinnicutt Center.

My colleagues on the Board of Trustees, honored guests, President Lobo of Honduras who honors us by his presence today - his daughter is among our graduates - thank you, sir, for being with us.

Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, he left home early and did not finish high school.

Provost Steve A.N. Goldstein and President Fred Lawrence bestowed an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters on Deborah Bial '87 Leading advocates for social justice gave Brandeis University graduates a grim overview of the world they face and a spirited charge to go out and fix it as the university observed its 61st commencement today.

The annual Rabbi Bernard H. and Minna Ziskind Memorial Lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 23 at Tifereth Israel Congregation, 145 Brownell Ave.