Brandeis Magazine

A Jerusalem-based NPR journalist describes the challenges and heartbreak of reporting on the Israel-Hamas war.

In the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, Jewish undergraduates across the U.S. are experiencing growing hostility.

English professor Ramie Targoff casts light on four overlooked female writers of the Renaissance.

A Crown Center fellow is conducting polls of the Palestinian people. He believes peace is still possible.

Campus radio station WBRS is a thriving anachronism, beloved by DJs past and present.

His latest novel gives his fans what they crave: a smart comedy of manners, filled with genuine psychological insight.

Brandeis alumni, students, and faculty win kudos for creative endeavors.

Using role-play, a politics class studied how protest movements might react today to a Jan. 6 situation.

Neuroscientist Frances Chance, GSAS MS’97, PhD’00, is studying the dragonfly’s amazing interception skills at the neural circuit level.

Paul Anastas, GSAS MA’87, PhD’90 talks about his work to prevent chemical pollution and toxicity.

One of the weirdest theories in cosmology is the holographic principle, the idea that our universe is a three-dimensional image projected off a two-dimensional surface — the idea that, yes, we are living in a hologram.

Java lovers everywhere will be buzzed to learn a newly commercialized technology from Brandeis can unlock powerful health benefits from coffee beans.

Donor support is a critical component of Brandeis’ ability to offer a world-class education to extraordinary students, regardless of their background or financial circumstances. Three Brandeis scholarship recipients share some reflections on what this support has meant to them.

Steve and Lori Fineman, both P’26, describe the path of their son Spencer ’26 to Brandeis, their motivation for getting involved in the life of the university, and why they think other parents should, too.

Enterprising idealists. Truth pursuers. Repairers of the world. These are a few descriptors for Brandeis students who, following in the footsteps of alumni before them, will blaze their own paths to lives of meaning.

The university celebrates the Class of 2024 with words of wisdom and hope.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin ’92 has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024 for her fierce advocacy in behalf of her son and the hostages still held captive by Hamas since its invasion of Israel.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Heller School for Social Policy and Management among the top public affairs graduate schools in two specialty categories: social policy, and health policy and management.

Eleven undergraduates and three alumni received prestigious scholarships this spring.

The Anti-Defamation League gave Brandeis a grade of A in the ADL’s first-ever Campus Antisemitism Report Card, released in April.

Celebrating noteworthy achievements by the Brandeis community.