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News Michael Rosbash Is A Nobel Prizewinner From Straight Outta The Borscht Belt
With characteristic envelope-pushing humor, Michael Rosbash, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, couldn’t help dropping a joke into a press conference Monday morning about the life of a scientist. In the library of Brandeis University, where he has taught for over forty years, Rosbash told a packed crowd of colleagues, university…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Scientists Share Nobel Prize For Medicine
Scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling our biological clocks, the award-giving body said on Monday. Hall and Robash are affiliated with Brandeis University. The mechanisms help explain issues such as why people traveling long distances over several…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Dormitory Vandalized With Swastikas
(JTA) — Several swastikas were found drawn on message boards outside two dormitory rooms in the same residence hall at Brandeis University. Public safety officers removed the images, officials at the Jewish-founded nonsectarian university said this week in a letter addressed to “Members of the Brandeis community.” Also, the letter said, posters targeting pro-Palestinian student…
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Fast Forward Brandeis University Reopens After Bomb Threat
(JTA) — Brandeis University reopened its campus following an email bomb threat. The suburban Boston campus closed Wednesday morning after the university received the threat. People on campus were moved to a secure facility and anyone not on campus was told not to enter. After law enforcement surveyed the campus and declared it safe, the…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Briefly Shuts Down Over Email Threat
(JTA) — Brandeis University has been temporarily closed following an email threat, the university announced Wednesday. The nature of the threats were unclear. University spokesman Jarret Bencks wrote in an email to JTA that the school is working with law enforcement to investigate the threat, which he did not specify. “In light of emailed threats…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Scores Record $50M Donation For Financial Aid
(JTA) — Brandeis University has received a $50 million gift — the largest single donation in the suburban Boston school’s 69-year history — to provide financial aid annually for hundreds of students. The gift from the estate of Rosaline and Marcia Cohn announced Tuesday by the university will establish the Jacob and Rosaline Cohn Endowed…
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Opinion After This Election, Americans Have Lost Faith in Polling. Should Jews?
One casualty of the election: people’s faith in surveys. We relied on polls to help us understand the election and they seemingly failed us. Although pre-election polls came within 1-2% of predicting the national popular vote, state polls that were the basis for Electoral College predictions were far less accurate. Whether and how to use…
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Fast Forward BDS Spurs Rising Anti-Semitism on Campus: Brandeis Report
— Reports of anti-Semitic incidents on U.S. college campuses have increased, much of it attributed to the rise of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a new report has found. Researchers at the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University conducted the study, which was released in late October….
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