July 2024
Features
![Smiling students and guest speakers in a lecture-style classroom](https://www.brandeis.edu/stories/2024/july/images/journalism-thumb.jpg)
On Thursday evenings throughout the spring 2024 semester, a group of Brandeis University students put their classroom learning into practice while also helping to reimagine local journalism.
![An illustration from an ancient Greek vase with runners in red against a blue background](https://www.brandeis.edu/stories/2024/july/images/brandeisstoreis-ancientolympics1c.jpg)
Joel Christensen, Professor of early Mediterranean and classical studies, offers his thoughts on the links between the original Olympic games and today's modern events.
![Fiona Stewart stands in front of a table covered in lenses and mirrors. She is wearing a pair of tinted safety glasses, and is adding microbes to a plate of glass using a pipette.](https://www.brandeis.edu/stories/2024/july/images/003-070924-stewart-540a9679-enhanced-nr.jpg)
As an undergraduate researcher, Fiona Stewart shoots lasers at tiny bacteria—and in the process, she's answering some profound mysteries about their genetic machinery.
![secret service respond to an assassination attempt of former president donald trump.](https://www.brandeis.edu/stories/2024/july/images/assassination.trump.washpo.jpg)
Politics professor and domestic terrorism expert Jytte Klausen discusses the attempt on former president Donald Trump's life.
University Professor Eve Marder ’69 and immunologist Drew Weissman ’81, GSAS MA’81, P’15, H’23 are two of six elected as part of the biological sciences class.
In the News
Professor Jytte Klausen quoted
Steinhardt Social Research Institute director Leonard Saxe quoted
Article by professor Zachary Albert
Associate director of Brandeis University’s Institute for Economic and Racial Equity Tatjana Meschede quoted
Professor Ramie Targoff interviewed
Research Associate Keren R. McGinity quoted
Professor Shantanu Jadhav quoted
Professor Nader Habibi interviewed
Book by professor Ramie Targoff interviewed
Professor David Weil quoted