Tag: Brandeis University

  • Nation & World

    Link between Ukraine fighting, fossil fuels

    German activists say shifting to renewable energy sources could produce environmental, peace dividends.

    5 minutes
    climate activists and co-founders of Germany’s Fridays for Future Helena Marschall and Luisa Neubauer
  • Nation & World

    Retracing Du Bois’ missteps

    Radcliffe fellow Chad Williams is working on a book about what he considers one of W.E.B. Du Bois’ greatest missteps: “The Black Man and the Wounded World,” an unfinished history of the African-American experience during World War I.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sacvan Bercovitch

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 7, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Bercovitch was internationally known for learned and provocative work in the entire range of American…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Creative bursts from all corners

    A daylong symposium at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study explored the notion of the creative “aha” moment across a range of fields and disciplines.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Anita Hill looks back, and ahead

    Legal scholar Anita Hill discussed her experience during the 1991 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the civil rights work that it inspired.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sumner M. Redstone donates $1M

    Harvard University today (April 23) announced that Sumner M. Redstone has contributed $1 million to be used by Harvard College and Harvard Law School. This contribution by Redstone, a graduate of both Schools, will establish scholarships for 20 Redstone Scholars to attend Harvard College for the 2010–11 academic year.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Archives and electrons

    In a discussion titled “Writing History Now,” sponsored by the Harvard University Extension School, a panel of historians examines the shifting landscape of recording history, as the Internet changes the ways that data is saved and valued.

    6 minutes