Brandeis Magazine
Summer 2024
Alumni Profiles
Margaret Borchert ’15 came to Brandeis with dreams of becoming the next Great American Novelist. Then she took a course on short-film writing taught by Marc Weinberg, an adjunct assistant professor of English and film studies, and it opened her eyes to a different creative medium.
In her lab at the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, chemistry professor Graciela Díaz de Delgado, GSAS PhD’88, P’24, studies the structure of drugs used to treat high blood pressure, Parkinson’s disease, and other illnesses.