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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the envelope, The Student Productions Association of Lane Community College will stage Michael Weller's experimental, unpublished work Dwarfman, Master of a Million Shapes .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.

Former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold wanted the last word after his matchup with Judge Richard Goldstone at Brandeis University last week.

And the mood was decidedly pessimistic. Khalil Shikaki, a Brandeis University professor who has conducted more than 100 polls among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, focused on the decision by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, not to run for reelection in 2010.

When I read Christopher Beha's recent article in Harper's Magazine drudging up Brandeis' financial troubles, what first came to mind was the old maxim, "If you cannot improve the silence, then don't speak." Beha's article aggravated me primarily because, to put it bluntly, the article was pointless.

In a few weeks, the Gosman Center at Brandeis University will be the site of one of the largest solar panel arrays in Massachusetts.

Ever since she was in fourth grade, Risa Glaser knew she wanted to be an attorney.

By the time Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, more than 52,000 British convicts had labored as slaves on plantations from Maryland to Virginia.

Washington, Nov 5 : Paediatric oncologists are likely to accept religion as a resort when medicine has failed the patient, according to a new study.

The Israeli media have extensive coverage today of the forum at Brandeis University last night in which South African Justice Richard Goldstone defended his United Nations report on Israel's invasion of Gaza -- and former Israeli diplomat Dore Gold sharply challenged Goldstone's methods and findings.

TO BRANDEIS University last night, South African jurist Richard Goldstone brought his international reputation as a legal scholar, a human rights advocate, and the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

WASHINGTON a ' Shortly after his report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, Judge Richard Goldstone took part Thursday night in a debate with former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, in which he argued that statements made by Israeli politicians and military officials were proof ...

Brandeis University's stunning decision in January to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its $350 million collection sparked anxiety on campus and a campaign to save the museum, and led to an about-face: The museum would stay open, but director Michael Rush would go, staffing would be cut, and some works might still be sold.

Do pediatric oncologists feel that religion is a bridge or a barrier to their work? Or do they feel it can be either, depending on whether their patients are recovering or deteriorating? A novel Brandeis University study examines these questions in the current issue of Social Problems .

University President Jehuda Reinharz recently sent an e-mail to the faculty listserv in response to the November 2009 Harper's Magazine article "Voodoo Academics: Brandeis University's hard lesson in the real economy." In this e-mail, Mr.

Results of the survey, appearing in the November/December 2009 issue of Health Affairs, also suggest that interest in commercial applications of research appears to be growing, even among investigators without industry funding.

In 1988, Christie Hefner took over Playboy Enterprises Inc., from her iconic father, Hugh Hefner.

Birthright Israel is hinging a major fund-raising push on a new study that says the program, which sends young Jews on free 10-day trips to Israel, has a major impact on Jewish continuity.

Last September, Boston University was the first local college to sound the alarm on an impending financial crisis that would soon penetrate much of academia: President Robert Brown curbed spending, froze staff hiring, and halted construction.

Two dominant flaws in Indira Gandhia TMs character that explain most of her controversial political moves during her 16 years as prime minister were her insecurity and her authoritarian mentality.