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‘I did everything right.’ Despite following the rules, these students got deported Ava Sasani © Provided by The Boston Globe From left to right, Hamid Mohabbat, Pegah Karimi, and Behzad Rezeai. Hamid Mohabbat did not dream of living in the United States. He was scared to leave his parents and friends in Iran early last year for life in an American college town. “But this program was beyond what I imagined,” he said. After four years of all-nighters spent poring over e...

‘I did everything right.’ Despite following the rules, these students got deported Ava Sasani © Provided by The Boston Globe From left to right, Hamid Mohabbat, Pegah Karimi, and Behzad Rezeai. Hamid Mohabbat did not dream of living in the United States. He was scared to leave his parents and friends in Iran early last year for life in an American college town. “But this program was beyond what I imagined,” he said. After four years of all-nighters spent poring over e...

The Repository NORTH CANTON  Community Christian Church has been awarded a nearly $50,000 grant from the 2020 Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal Program. It will allow the Rev. Sarah Taylor Peck, senior pastor, to participate in a 3 1/2-month “renewal leave.” In its role of administering the Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal Program, the Christian Theological Seminary has awarded grants to 140 congregations located in 36 states. Taylor Peck is the first Canton area resident ...

More dialogue cannot save democracy David Allred/Going on Faith In part one of what I am calling, “Meditations for a New Year,” I thought I would begin with one of the conclusions that I am taking away from 2020. Simply put, I learned last year that more dialogue cannot save democracy. We are going to need something else. We are talking around, above, and over each other these days. If talking has been a big part of the problem, I struggle to see how more talking could be the solution.  Al...

Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Fami­lies, and Friends, Sheila Williams, ed. (MIT Press 978-0-26253-925-8, 240pp, $19.95, tp) September 2020. Artificial intelligence, genome tampering (eugenics), sex bots, and other forms of technology descend upon the middle class in Entanglements Asimov’s. Originally launched in 2011 by MIT Technology Review, Twelve Tomorrows is an annual anthology se­ries that explores the role of technology in near and far futures. This year each author has writte...

Rose Art Museum receives new director, chief curator Community Content Brandeis University has named Gannit Ankori as the Henry and Lois Foster Director and chief curator of the Rose Art Museum, in Waltham, effective Jan. 1, 2021. Ankori, a professor of art history and theory in the departments of Fine Arts and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, has been serving as interim director at the Rose since July. A Jerusalem native, Ankori is an acclaimed author, curator and ed...

Assistant director tapped for interim role as Potter Center leader leaves for Pittsburgh university Chris Purcell, director of Vanderbilt’s Office of LGBTQI Life since 2013, will leave the position Dec. 31 to become assistant dean of students at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. Vanderbilt.edu reports that Rob Nelson, assistant director of LGBTQI Life, will serve as the interim director while a national search is conducted to fill the role. The director of the K.C. Potter Center and Office o...

Jamaica Plain Community Minister/Associate Interim Pastor Benjamin Perkins has joined Wholesome Wave, a national 501(c)3 non-profit that addresses nutrition insecurity by making healthy produce available and affordable for people who need it most.  Serving as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer, Perkins will grow the strategy and mission, and ultimately lead the organization through the next decade of influence and impact. “Since our inception thirteen years ago, we have connected o...

Brandeis University Appoints Dr. Gannit Ankori Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum WALTHAM, Massachusetts Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid Gannit Ankori stands in front of an installation at The Rose: Dora García and ProjectSD, "She Has Many Names," 2020. Gold leaf on glass. Photo by Mike Lovett. Brandeis University has named Gannit Ankori as the Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum, effective January 1, 2021. Anko...

Gannit Ankori named Director of the Rose Art Museum Ankori will lead all artistic and programming initiatives at the Rose as well as the museum’s management. Photo: Mike Lovett. WALTHAM, MASS .- Brandeis University has named Gannit Ankori as the Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum, effective January 1, 2021. Ankori, a professor of art history and theory in the departments of Fine Arts and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, has been s...