Week of April 8 - 14

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The Quest RSVP Deadline Coming Soon! Register for The Quest by April 17 to be alerted when the game starts! Over $2500 in prizes is in play! Over 200 have signed up. Don't get left in the dust! The Quest Website

Resilience: Framework and Campus Resources Acknowledging that we have been operating in remote and challenging times for over a year...While we can't have Resilience Fairs right now, the essence of the fairs is perhaps more important than ever. Resilience: Framework and Campus Resources pulls together a conceptual framework and campus resources that support resilience.

Apply for Students Talking About Relationships. S.T.A.R. is a peer support resource providing informal support to the Brandeis community both in-person and through an online anonymous chat. Peer support students are trained in a variety of topics, ranging from eating disorders to roommate troubles, and hold office hours throughout the academic year. We are currently accepting applications for new peer support students and/or E-Board members, and the application can be found on our website.

This Week's Events

Thursday, April 8

Deis Impact – Workshop on the Migration of Caste 7:00 - 8:15 PM EST Register on Zoom This event will explore the migration of caste and its effect on the South-Asian diaspora in the United States. U.S. employers and universities are slowly beginning to understand the impact of Caste discrimination, and Brandeis University was one of the first schools in the nation to include caste in our non-discrimination and harassment policy. In this workshop we will discuss the harms that caste can induce on our campus, and explore the ways in which we can provide a safe environment to students who belong to communities marginalized due to caste. Facilitated by Jaspreet Mahal of the Student Accessibility Support Office and the Boston Study Group, a nonprofit organization working within the anti-caste movement. This workshop will include a short media viewing and facilitated small group discussion.

Center for Spiritual Life Christian Evening Prayer [6:00 p.m.] Common Questions, Uncommon Answers [7:15 p.m. ] Virtual Muslim Study Circle [8:00 p.m. ] Islam in the Modern World [8:00 p.m.]

Brandeis Counseling Center Depression Symposium [11:00 a.m. ] Heller Walk the Talk [5:00 p.m. ]

Other Events 2021 Holocaust Remembrance Panel: Echoes and Reckonings [11:00 a.m.] The New Pew Report on American Jews [12:00 p.m.] Source Engagement Workshop [2:00 p.m] Studio Israel: Conversation Series – From Within and Without [2:oo p.m.] Eighth Annual Mandel Lectures in the Humanities - "Scratching the Celluloid": Sonic Plotting & Planning while Facing the 21st Century Catastrophe [4:30 p.m.] Free Bubble Tea with Brandeis Pro-Choice [6:00 p.m.] Education Alumni Panel [6:30 p.m.] Organizing While Undocumented [7:00 p.m.] Smalltalk by ESS Club [8:00 p.m.]

Friday, April 9

We Wear Blue with Community Living 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Fellows Garden Come meet the Community Living team and if you are wearing blue receive a WWB trucker style hat! Community Living is on hand to answer any questions you might have about room selection, move-out, or any other questions you might have. Stop by, say hi and also enter into a raffle. See you there, and don't forget to wear your Blue!

Defining Service Student Focus Groups The Department of Community Service (DCS) invites all undergraduate students to join us in a discussion of how Brandeis measures, tracks, and rewards your community engagement work. Your input will have a direct impact on the new service tracking platform as well as other departmental policies. All participants of either the focus group or the survey will be entered to win one of four $20 Amazon gift cards.   Please join us at one of the following focus group sessions. If you are unable to attend, please complete this 10-minute survey and have your voice heard.   Friday, April 9 from 1-2pm (EST) Register here. Friday, April 16 from 3-4pm (EST) Register here. As a student and community member, your views, experiences, and feedback are extremely important. These focus groups are part of a larger effort to align the Commitment to Service Award (CTSA) program with the multiplicity of students’ community engagement activities and the DCS’s commitment to increasing the accessibility and recognition of diverse service experiences for BIPOC students on our campus. If you have any questions about the focus groups or the Commitment to Service Award (CTSA) program, please email Moriah King (kingm@brandeis.edu) or Samantha De Melim (sdemelim@brandeis.edu). We look forward to having these meaningful and important conversations with you all.

Deis Impact – Keynote Address: Jose Antonio Vargas, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen 1:00 - 2:15 PM EST  Register on Zoom Jose Antonio Vargas is the Deis Impact 2020 Keynote Speaker. Jose is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and a leading voice for the human rights of immigrants. Jose's keynote address, "Notes of an Undocumented Citizen," will discuss his groundbreaking new book and what Jose describes as, "homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like myself find ourselves in.”

Brandeis Counseling Center Women’s Support Group [10:00 a.m.] Misery Loves Company [11:00 a.m.] BCC Grad Support Groups [12:00 p.m.] Remotely Interesting: BCC Spring 2021 Workshops [1:00 p.m.] Anxiety Symposia - Graduate Students [2:00 p.m.]

Center for Spiritual Life Friday Prayers [1:15 p.m.] Virtual Zen Zone [3:00 p.m.] Reflection and Preparation for Ramadan [8:00 p.m.]

Department of Community Service Measuring and Rewarding Service Focus Groups: Graduate Students [10:00 a.m.]

Other Events Exhibition: Ariel Basson Freiberg | Hellbent [10:00 a.m.] Biochemistry-Biophysics Friday Lunchtime Pizza Talks: From Complexity to Specificity: Development of Mechanism-Based Inactivators against a PLP-Dependent Cancer Target Ornithine Aminotransferase [11:15 a.m.] Professional & Technical Writing Workshop [12:00 p.m.] Surviving the Thesis (Panel 3): a Q&A with recent Thesis and Dissertation writers [12:00 p.m.] Shabbat Market [12:00 p.m.] Shabbat Services [4:00 p.m.]

Saturday, April 10

Paint Night 7:00 p.m. - Zoom Join our instructor as they guide you to your work of art or at least to have some fun and relieve some stress! Option for virtual engagement or in person involvement is available. Register for paint night today!

Other Events Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century: What Relevance for Other Oppressed Peoples Globally? [10:00 a.m.] Shabbat Services [10:00 a.m.]

Sunday, April 11

Center for Spiritual Life Catholic Mass [10:00 a.m.]

Other Events Brandeis Concert Series REMIX on WBRS [2:00 p.m.]

Monday, April 12

Brandeis Counseling Center Bereavment Group [4:00 p.m.] Walk the Talk [5:00 p.m.] (En)Visioning Healing & Liberation [5:00 p.m.]

Other Events CGES Online: Elections for Future: Germany’s Super Election Year 2021 and the Rise of Green Politics [11:30 a.m.] Education Program Speaker Series: Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League [4:30 p.m.]

Tuesday, April 13

Brandeis Counseling Center Women’s Support Group [1:00 p.m.] Surviving Quarantine and Isolation - BCC Drop-In Support [3:00 p.m.] BCC Grad Support Groups [4:00 p.m.] Anxiety Symposia - Undergraduate Students [5:00 p.m.] Remotely Interesting: BCC Spring 2021 Workshops [6:00 p.m.]

Other Fun Events

Wednesday, April 14

Brandeis Counseling Center Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Basics and Beyond [1:00 p.m.] The Ubuntu Conversation Didactic Group [1:00 p.m.] The Men's Group [3:00 p.m.]

Center for Spiritual Life Virtual Zen Zone [3:00 p.m.] CommuniTeas [7:30 p.m.]

Other Events Exhibition: Ariel Basson Freiberg | Hellbent [10:00 a.m.] Environmental Investing [12:00 p.m.] Music at Mandel: Afternoon Jazz with Bob Nieske and Billy Novick [12:00 p.m.] Graduate Write-in Studio [2:00 p.m.] Take Back the Night Tabling [3:30 pm]

Upcoming Events

Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday, Apr. 30, 2021, 1 – 3 p.m. The first Brandeis all-disciplines Undergraduate Research Symposium! This online event will provide a forum for undergraduates to present and share their research and creative projects to the Brandeis Community. The URCC thanks the Davis Educational Foundation for grant funding to support this event.  Please note that while the main student presentation session is from 1-3 p.m. on April 30, 2021, attendees will have the opportunity to preview presentations and also interact in real time with the undergraduate presenters. go.brandeis.edu/undergrad-symposium

The Usdan Game Room, operated by the Student Service Bureau (SSB), is open daily Noon - 9:30 p.m. Play ping pong, pool, Foosball, or video games while practicing safe, social Deistancing. Open Daily: Noon - 9:30 p.m.*

Cholmondeley's Coffee House, located in the Usen Castle, is open daily as a study space and chill zone.  Monday - Thursday: Noon - 8 p.m.* Friday - Sunday: Noon-6 p.m.