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(03/06/18 11:00am)
According to a March 3 article in Time, this February, a woman from the United States gave birth to a baby after a successful uterine transplant — making her the second in the country to do so. The woman, who wished to withhold her identity, is part of an ongoing clinical trial at the Baylor University Medical Center to treat women with absolute uterine factor infertility, meaning that they have either a nonfunctional or nonexistent uterus. The first successful surgery was performed in 1999 by a team of doctors at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Since then, eight children have been born from women who had undergone a uterine transplant, according to the university’s website.
(03/06/18 11:04am)
The women’s basketball team concluded its season this past Wednesday night as it fell in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament. Its first round defeat came at the hands of Springfield College by a score of 58-46.
(03/06/18 11:03am)
Saturday, March 8 brought an end to a rollercoaster season for the Brandeis men’s basketball team. The Judges ended with an overall record of 7-18 and 3-11 in the University Athletic Association. The team record declined from the 2016-17 season, during which the Judges concluded their season 8-16, overall.
(02/13/18 11:00am)
Those who are not glued to every single sliver of tech and business news may have missed the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of bitcoin, the crown prince of the burgeoning cryptocurrency trend. Despite the amount of attention investors and market analysts have paid them in recent months, few members of the public actually understand what cryptocurrencies are or how they work. Put simply, cryptocurrencies are decentralized and anonymous currencies that rely on a complex system of algorithms to generate new units. Instead of a central authority like the Federal Reserve being in charge of the release of new currency units into the market, new cryptocurrencies are released by private individuals in a process called “mining.” Furthermore, production of cryptocurrencies decreases as their total amount increases, meaning that, over time, a hard cap will be created on how much can exist in the market, according to a Dec. 7, 2017 Economic Times article. Accordingly, the value of each individual unit is intended to skyrocket in value as investors and users become attracted to the currency. At the start of January 2017, each bitcoin was worth about $1,000; in one year, rampant speculation had driven up the value of each bitcoin to about $19,000, per bitcoin’s own internal price tracker.
(02/13/18 11:00am)
Just yesterday, Snopes cleared up one of the internet’s biggest controversies of the week: It is not true that police can legally rape people in 35 different states. However, it is still too early to breathe a sigh of relief. The truth of the matter is that these 35 states do not have laws that make it illegal for police officers or sheriff deputies to have sex with people in their custody. Although this is almost certainly an oversight rather than a loophole crafted for nefarious purposes, it is a dangerous one, and it reflects a broader issue in the current state of United States laws.
(02/13/18 11:00am)
Highlighting one social justice application of 3-D printing, Brandeis Prosthesis Club invited fellow University students to assemble 3-D printed prosthetic hands on Friday.
(02/13/18 11:00am)
Medical Emergency
(02/13/18 11:03am)
The women’s basketball team struggled mightily this past week with a pair of losses to University Athletic Association conference opponents. The squad lost by 36 points on Friday at home against Washington University in St. Louis and by 25 on Sunday at home against the University of Chicago.
(02/13/18 11:01am)
Riding the momentum of their dominance at the Northeast Fencing Conference Meet in late January, the Brandeis men’s and women’s fencing teams entered the month of February ready to continue their winning ways. However, the Judges have faced stiff, sometimes nationally ranked competition through their first two meets of the month. The teams persevered nonetheless and posted respectable records despite their formidable opponents. The men’s team went a combined 4-5 while the women went 3-6.
(02/06/18 5:46pm)
The Brandeis men’s and women’s track teams had a strong showing at the Tufts Cupid Invitational last weekend. Although, similarly to last week, the meet was non scoring, the teams still had many noteworthy individual performances from their athletes.
(02/06/18 5:47pm)
The Brandeis women’s basketball team left the University campus this weekend, travelling to Case Western Reserve University and Carnegie Mellon University. A less successful weekend than the last one, the Judges won one game and lost one, resulting in an updated record of 12-7, 4-5 in the University Athletic Association. The team looks ahead to next weekend when they return home to play Washington University in St. Louis on Friday, and the University of Chicago on Sunday.
(02/06/18 11:00am)
Six years ago, Nadia Alawa was a full-time mother whose days were spent driving her eight children to sports games and homeschooling them for exams. In 2011, her quiet life in the sleepy town of East Hempstead, New Hampshire ended with the eruption of a devastating civil war in Syria, her father’s homeland.
(01/30/18 11:01am)
The fencing teams finished their Northeast Fencing Conference campaigns on Sunday with impressive showings at Boston College. The men clinched their third NFC crown in four years with an undefeated 10-0 record, and the women finished a strong third place with a 9-3 record, besting some of the top programs in the region. As the Judges finish their NFC campaign, they are tied with Boston College with an overall record of 19-3.
(01/23/18 11:00am)
In a powerful statement read in court on Jan. 18, 22-year-old McKayla Maroney shared the unfortunate story of her time with USA Gymnastics team. According to a Jan. 18 article in the Washington Post, Assistant Attorney General Angela Povilaitis read a statement on Maroney’s behalf, saying, “I had flown all day and night with the team to get to Tokyo. He had given me a sleeping pill for the flight, and the next thing I know I was all alone with him in his hotel room getting a ‘treatment.’ I thought I was going to die that night.”
(01/24/18 12:18am)
The women’s basketball team lost both games it played this week, falling to Emory University on Friday night and the University of Rochester on Sunday afternoon.
(01/23/18 11:04am)
The men’s basketball team had a tough week, dropping both of its University Athletic Association conference games at home. The struggling squad dropped to a 4-12 record as it is still figuring things out as a cohesive unit.
(01/23/18 11:02am)
The Cleveland Cavaliers have been categorically abysmal these past two weeks. In that stretch, the Cavs have beaten only one team — the Orlando Magic, the worst team in the entire league. In those two contests against the Magic, the Cavs won by a combined five points. They barely squeezed by in a 104-103 win on Jan. 18 and allowed 127 points on Jan. 6. The following weekend, the Cavs outdid themselves once again, pathetically giving up 148 points to the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Cavs were also handed their biggest loss of the season, a 34-point blowout, by their now conference rival, the Toronto Raptors.
(01/23/18 11:01am)
On Saturday, Brandeis took a trip to Keene, New Hampshire to compete against the Keene State College Owls and the Bridgewater State University Bears. The women lost to the Owls 150-87 but were able to beat Bridgewater 157-77. The men’s squad was able to beat both schools. They defeated Keene State 155-69 and and Bridgewater State 123-112.
(01/16/18 11:00am)
The expansion of the ombuds office has reignited a longstanding debate over campus space allocation, with several commuter students releasing a statement of objection regarding the decision to house the Ombuds Office in the Commuter Lounge.
(01/16/18 11:00am)
This year’s Midyear Orientation Program welcomed 105 Class of 2021 students and 23 transfer students to the University community.
