"Leading in the New Global Economy" Symposium on October 7thwill be inaugural Perlmutter Institute event WALTHAM, Mass. -- Louis and Barbara Perlmutter have given $5 million to Brandeis University's International Business School IBS to establish the Perlmutter Institute for Global Business Leadership, the University announced today. The mission of...
Applied DNA Sciences and Smiths Detection signed a memorandum of understanding for Smiths to provide Applied DNA Sciences with exclusive use of the Bio-seeq PLUS platform for authentication, anticounterfeiting and antidiversion. The Bio-seeq PLUS uses LATE linear after the exponential PCR, which Smiths exclusively licensed from Brandeis University.
NEW YORK -- Non-Orthodox Jewish men are becoming alienated from their faith, a "crisis" that foreshadows a rise in interfaith marriages and secular generations, according to a new study from Brandeis University. The findings, based on 300 interviews, report the rise of female leadership and participation in Reform, Reconstructionist...
The dean of Harvard Divinity School from 1968 to 1979, credited with opening the school to women and African-Americans, Krister Stendahl, died April 15. He was 86. An ordained Lutheran minister born in Sweden, Stendahl was elected bishop of Sweden in the 1980s, where he led reform efforts on women's...
A technology breakthrough by the nutrition scientists at Brandeis University has enabled Smart Balance Inc., Paramus, N.J., to develop milk products that deliver 166% of the daily value of vitamin E in each serving with up to three times better absorption into the bloodstream. The new Smart Balance Milk, which...
Naomi Bar-Yam, a Newton, MA resident and Brandeis University alumna, wins $10,000 WALTHAM, Mass. & SPRING HOUSE, Pa. -- Advanta Corp. (NASDAQ: ADVNB; ADVNA) announced last night that Naomi Bar-Yam of Newton, MA has been named January's $10,000 ideablob.com monthly contest winner for the best business idea. Bar-Yam is...
Landmark study based on new "Middle Class Security Index" developed by Demos and Brandeis University; Findings announced at 11/28 press tele-conference Press Tele-conference Call-in Details Time: Noon EST, 11/28/2008 Conference Call-in Number: (888) 491-8283 Conference ID: 25379046 Report available for download at www.demos.org and iasp.brandeis.edu...
To: SOCIETY EDITORSContact: Timothy Rusch of Demos, +1-212-633-1405 x407, trusch@demos.org; or Laura Gardner of Brandeis University, +1-781- 736-4204, gardner@brandeis.edu Landmark study based on new "Middle Class Security Index" developed by Demos and Brandeis University; Findings announced at 11/ 28 press tele-conferencePress Tele-conference Call-in DetailsTime: Noon EST, 11/28/2008;Conference Call-in Number: (888)...
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Timothy Rusch of Demos, +1-212-389-1407, trusch@demos.org; or Laura Gardner of Brandeis University, +1-781- 736-4204, gardner@brandeis.edu Barriers To Long-Term Stability, Numbers Of Families At Risk Of Falling Out Of Middle Class To Be DiscussedNEW YORK, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Brandeis University:WHAT:Briefing for...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dr. Reginald S. Avery has been appointed president of Coppin State University (Md.). Currently executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of South Carolina Upstate, he will assume his new position in January. Avery earned a bachelor's from North Carolina A&T State University, a master's...
BOSTON -- Smiths Detection, part of the global technology business Smiths Group, today announces it is to launch a portable detection system that will enable veterinarians to carry out on-site diagnosis of animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth and avian flu. This new technology means vets will be able to diagnose...
Pope Benedict XVI's recent visit to the Holocaust memorial in Vienna's Judenplatz was another reminder that the relationship between Catholics and Jews has taken spectacular steps forward in the 40 years since the Vatican II document Nostra Aerate began a revolution of ideas within the worldwide Christian community. Earlier...
Alex the parrot could do a lot of things. He could count to six, and was working on counting to seven. He could name 50 objects, seven colours and five shapes. Scientists who kept him in a lab at Brandeis University near Boston, said he had the emotional maturity of...
Brandeis has been wrestling with how to respond when expression is offensive but not hateful. The principle, to my mind, is simple enough-to allow expression on campus when it is not hateful or defamatory or threatening, and to encourage it when it is civil and open-minded and of...
BOSTON -- Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPFH), today announced that Deborah Foye Kuenstner and Adolfo Henriques have been elected to the Board of Directors. Ms. Kuenstner is the Chief Investment Officer and Vice President of Investment Management at Brandeis University. Mr. Henriques is President and Chief Executive Officer...
Byline: Eric Peterson epeterson@@dailyherald.com A nationally famous used book sale will remain an annual fixture of the Chicago suburbs as Palatine-based Little City Foundation steps in as organizer and beneficiary this Saturday. Little City, which funds and runs programs...
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Brandeis University announced today that Bruce R. Magid, Ph.D., has been appointed dean of the Brandeis International Business School, effective July 1, 2007. "Bruce Magid offers a rare ability to blend both academic leadership and professional practice within our global business school,'' Brandeis Provost Marty Krauss...
At the same time the United States suffered through the "Panic of 1907" with the third-worst stock market crash in its history, a highly respected Boston lawyer was helping change the face of the life insurance industry. This year marks the centennial celebration of...
* It sounds like selective editing to characterize Jimmy Carter's comments at Brandeis University as an apology (NCR, Feb. 9). Granted, he admitted that one of his statements in his recent book appears to condone suicide bombings until Israel accepts the ultimate goals of the Road Map. This, Carter confesses,...
"This is the first time that I've ever been called a liar and a bigot and an anti-Semite and a coward and a plagiarist." In his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, former President Jimmy Carter criticizes Israel's policies regarding the Palestinians. He traveled to Brandeis University where he defended his...
