George V. Hansen, a flamboyant Idaho congressman who launched a quixotic one-man mission to bring back U.S. hostages from Iran and who later went to prison for violating federal ethics laws, died Aug.

Brandeis professor Karen V. Hansen will participate in the Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge, an 18-month study of national poverty and economic mobility which carries a $100,000 grant.

Provost Lisa Lynch announced today that Karen V. Hansen, Professor of Sociology, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, has been named director of the Women’s Studies ...