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Dance your PhD

Heard a story about the Dance your PhD competition on NPR’s Only A Game this morning. Basically, you compose and execute a dance based on the topic of your PhD research. It’s very funny and even...

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Holiday Party Friday

The Annual Life Sciences Holiday Party will be held on Friday Dec 12 2008. The fun starts at 7pm in the Faculty Club. I know of four skits in preparation. Skits have often been surprising in the past....

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Justice Brandeis will be on a US postage stamp

It’s been a slow news week, not much to report. In random, almost sort-of-relevant news, Justice Brandeis (for whom our university is named) will be on a USPS postage stamp in September.

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Neuroscience Movie Night

News for Neuroscience and Biology undergrads from the Neuroscience UDRs: The first Neuroscience Movie Night will be Thursday, Feb 12th from 6-9pm in Volen 105!  We will be showing the movie Memento, a...

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Darwin's birthday

Thursday, February 12 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. I don’t think the sciences have anything planned, but our friends from the humanities do: Darwin’s Doubles: Evolution, Art, and...

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Darwin was a field biologist

ant and treehopper (photo by Dan Perlman) Ok, most Brandeis students don’t get to sail around the world in a wooden boat. On the other hand, over the last several years, Dan Perlman‘s Field Biology...

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Heart Research Seminar Wed Feb 25

Prof. Leslie Leinwand from the University of Colorado at Boulder will be at Brandeis on Feb 25, 2009 to give a lecture in the Heart Research Series sponsored by the Dan Getz Endowed Fund for Heart...

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Kalman building disassembly

The old Kalman building in the process of disassembly. My old office is at bottom left. According to a sign next to the plaque in the new building, Kalman opened in 1957, and two generations of...

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Enjoying the view

A visitor checks out the view from the top of the new Shapiro Science building. Learn more about the species sharing the suburban environment with us from the Electronic Field Guides assembled by Dan...

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recent papers by undergraduate alumni

We like to keep track of what our alumni are up to. Listed below, some recent papers showing what our undergraduate researchers from years past who are hitting their academic stride (grads from 7-14...

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A large multistory atrium curates movement

Seen on the web, an architectural appreciation of the Shapiro Science Center: http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/204391/20110826/carl-j-shapiro-science-center-payette.htm A large multistory atrium...

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New NSF Policies aimed at researchers balancing parenthood and careers

Brandeis grad students, postdocs and faculty are no strangers to the challenges that face researchers who are parents. NSF has recently announced a new set of policies to give more flexibility to NSF...

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A sharp debate

Junior members of the Griffith and Hedstrom labs debate the relative merits of behavioral genetics and medicinal enzymology.

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Clean Sweep

Those of you who (like me) took medical microbiology 10 or more years ago might have a thing or two to learn about where the most risk comes from in hospital infections, according to Maryn McKenna,...

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Science stories in Brandeis magazine

The fall 2012/winter 2013 issue of Brandeis Magazine is available online (and in print also I guess). Some science-related stories: Brandeis physicists discuss Life after the Higgs  Alumni profile of...

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Science funding over the cliff

Jim Haber forwarded the following from the Coalition for the Life Sciences. Nobel Laureates Warn Against Going over the Fiscal Cliff Bethesda, Maryland – Nobel Laureates from across the country are...

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Is it really a double helix?

The Justice tells the story of The Wand of Inquiry, the statue that graces the lawn below the Rosenstiel Center. photo: Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis...

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