Brandeis University News

Mt. Ida College will honor Newton Mayor Setti Warren with an honorary degree during the school's commencement ceremony on Friday, May 17.

At 84 percent, Brandeis University in Waltham had the Bay State's 10th-best graduation rate for students earning a bachelor's degree within four years.

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.

A friend found her body; an autopsy was being conducted late Monday, according to the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office.

Ostracized by his family for being gay, he said he was kicked out of his Brooklyn home at age 13 and placed in foster care.

Millburn High School announces the winners of the 2013 Book Awards. These awards are given to outstanding high school juniors by colleges and universities or their local alumni organizations.

May 10--Maybe the only way to get a fresh take on Ed Gein is to take Gein himself out of the equation.

Colleges and universities in and around Boston are tightening security, including Boston University, where one of the three people who died in the dual bombings was attending as a graduate student.

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.

To honor high school juniors for their outstanding performance, Millburn High School has announced the winners of the 2013 Book Awards given by colleges and universities or their local alumni organizations.

Clad in caps and gowns, eager to transfer their tassels from right to left in a gesture demonstrating their accomplishments, members of the Penn State DuBois Class of 2013 listened to a campus professor offer one final piece of advice before they would make the transition from students to alumni.

Today's weather forecast -- 63 degrees and sunny. Lyman Estate is holding an herb sale at 10 a.m. Brandeis University will host a seminar on self-publishing at 10:30 a.m. Stay up to date wiht Waltham news with our free, daily newsletter.

Barnard Vice President for College Relations and former Barnard dean Dorothy Denburg, political science professor Douglas Chalmers, and former Barnard president Judith Shapiro have all worked at the University for more than 40 years.

Brandeis University received a one-out, walkoff RBI single in the bottom of the ninth from Liam O'Connor that lifted the Judges to a 3-2 win over MIT in non-conference baseball action.

When trying to entice prospective students, colleges and universities encourage students for a visit to get a feel for the campus atmosphere.

Sarah Scott is valedictorian of the class of 2013. She plans to attend Middlebury College in Vermont to pursue a degree in linguistics.

At one Bundist gathering in April 1963 - where "Yiddish was the language spoken because the story happened to people who spoke Yiddish: the grandparents, parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, and comrades of the people sitting in the auditorium" - the 15-year-old Roskies was overwhelmed by the recitation of "an epic poem by Simkhe ... (more)

The University of Notre Dame is joining six other selective universities to form Semester Online, an education consortium that will offer online-, for-credit courses for undergraduates.

Dr. Arthur Green, expert on Jewish mysticism, Hasidism and theology, will be the featured speaker at the 2013 Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization on Monday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. The event will take place at the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston .

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.