Brandeis Magazine
Winter 2023/2024
Inquiry
![An illustration of a physician wearing blue scrubs, holding their head in their hands.](../images/inquiry/physician.jpg)
Getting to the bottom of burnout in academic medicine.
![Students work on projects in an engineering class](../images/inquiry/engineering-class.jpg)
Brandeis prepares to launch an engineering major.
![Hannah Snyder wearing glasses and smiling at the camera](../images/inquiry/snyder-hannah-thumbnail.jpg)
Finding new solutions for students dealing with depression or anxiety.
![Ellen Sidransky](../images/inquiry/sidransky-ellen.jpg)
Ellen Sidransky ’77, a clinical geneticist and pediatrician at the National Institutes of Health, has won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for her discovery of a common genetic risk factor for Parkinson’s disease.