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Recent News
Heller in the News
June 13, 2024
Fantasyland General
In the American Prospect, Robert Kuttner writes about the lack of transparency in hospital pricing.
Heller in the News
June 05, 2024
Anarchy rules on Boston streets. Here’s one way to stop it.
In a Boston Globe op-ed, Robert Kuttner discusses the use of automated video traffic cameras.
Heller in the News
June 05, 2024
Research Supports the Need to Recognize the Right to Free Early Childhood Education and Free Secondary Education
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia is among the scholars, experts, and researchers on the education, development, wellbeing, and rights of children and adolescents who signed a letter expressing their support for a new optional protocol to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child focused on the right to free education.
Heller in the News
June 03, 2024
Geeking Out With...Manning Zhang
Brandeis' Graduate School of Arts and Sciences speaks with PhD student Manning Zhang about her research.
Heller in the News
May 28, 2024
The Support Our Public Services Briefly Had—and Still Need
In the American Prospect, Robert Kuttner writes that President Biden can make better ongoing support for popular public services a theme of his re-election campaign.
Heller in the News
May 23, 2024
Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission wants to change how workers report sexual harassment
The nonprofit organization has launched MyConnext, an online resource and reporting tool that will allow workers at five major entertainment business organizations to get help with reporting incidents of harassment, discrimination, and abuse.
Heller News Release
May 22, 2024
Seven Heller Students Awarded Prestigious Fellowship Programs
The Harvard Kennedy School Rappaport Public Policy Fellowship, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, and the Eli J. & Phyllis N. Segal Citizen Leadership Program will all welcome Heller students for their 2024 fellowship cohorts.
Heller in the News
May 22, 2024
Brandeis StreetCheck Project Keeps Close Eye On Street Drug Supply
Traci Green, director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative, discusses OPRC's StreetCheck Project on WBZ Radio.
Heller News Release
May 20, 2024
MPP Commencement Speaker: Katherine Nace, MPP’24
Representing the Master of Public Policy program, Katherine Nace, MPP’24, talked about the she insights gained from talking with her colleagues about the MPP program.
Heller News Release
May 20, 2024
COEX Commencement Speaker: Liz Peterson, MA COEX/ILHR’24
Representing the MA in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence program, Liz Peterson, MA COEX/ILHR’24, reflected on her "to-do" list over the course of her studies.
Heller News Release
May 20, 2024
Heller Congratulates the Class of 2024
Heller graduates were celebrated during a joint Brandeis University Graduate Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 19. The group included 19 doctoral graduates from the classes of 2023 and 2024, and 210 master’s graduates from the classes of 2023 and 2024.
Heller News Release
May 20, 2024
EMBA Commencement Speaker: Dr. Simone Wildes, EMBA’24
Representing the Executive MBA for Physicians program, Dr. Simone Wildes, EMBA’24, talked of her astonishment at how far her cohort has come and also took a moment to recognize Dr. Jon Chilingerian.