Dissertation Defense: Tamar Aizenberg, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Knowledge of the Same Abyss: Grandchildren of Survivors, Grandchildren of Perpetrators, and Holocaust Memory.
Location: Lown. Room: 315. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Dissertation Defense: Dakang Zhang, Chemistry
Iron-Catalyzed Stereoselective Glycosylation for 1,2-cis-Aminoglycoside Construction: Deprotection and Derivatization of Tn Antigens and Mucin-Type O-Glycan Cores, and Chemoenzymatic Assembly of Heparan Sulfate Oligosaccharides.
Location: Gerstenzang. Room: 123. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Dissertation Defense: Joshua Perlmutter, Mathematics
The Morse Local-to-Global Property and Relatively Hierarchically Hyperbolic Groups.
Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
Dissertation Defense: Thomas Cottle, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Feedback regulation of heme biosynthesis by mitochondrial CLPXP.
Location: Rosenstiel. Room: 118. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Dissertation Defense: Joshua Harrison, Neuroscience
Satellite Glial Cells Drive Homeostatic Synaptic and Structural Plasticity in Sympathetic Neurons via Neurotrophic Signaling to Constrain Neuronal Output.
Location: Gerstenzang. Room: 121. Registration Information: Please contact the student's department for information about attending this defense.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Graduate Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Final Round
Brandeis is excited to be hosting our fifth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition!
The Brandeis 3MT Competition is a university-sponsored speaking competition designed to showcase graduate student research in three-minute talks to a general audience. This is an opportunity for graduate students engaged in original research to develop communication and presentation skills while sharing their work with faculty, staff, and students across Brandeis University.
Mark your calendars for Friday, March 27th, 2026 from 4-5:30pm to see the Final Round of the 3MT Competition in Spingold Theater. Finalists will present, judges will deliberate, and prizes will be awarded.
Location: Spingold Theater Center. Registration Information: No registration required.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
For more info visit www.brandeis.edu. Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Reception
Join us directly after the Three Minute Thesis Competition Final at 5:30 for a reception at Brewer's Tap and Table in Waltham!
Location: Off Campus. Registration Information: No registration required.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit www.brandeis.edu.