Darfur Survivors Inspire Activism
Sudanese refugees and immigrants studying at Brandeis, including Heller MA student Panther Alier (right), are leading activism against the Darfur genocide.
Foreign Correspondent
Alumnus Guy Raz '96 was awarded the RIAS Berlin Prize and the Burns Award for his reporting from Germany and Eastern Europe. He is now the Defense Correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR).
Iraq Memory Foundation
The Iraq Memory Foundation, created by The Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Kanan Makiya, is devoted to preserving and documenting over 11 million pieces of records detailing the inner workings of the Ba'thist institutions of repression and social control that dominated Iraqi life between 1968 and 2003.
Intercultural Center Celebrates 15 Years
The Intercultural Center is a home away from home for 12 different student cultural clubs and organizations.
A global leader in Modern Art
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis has long-established relationships with world-renowned artists, exhibitors and designers. Among the 6,000 objects in its collection are particular highlights in surrealism and photorealism.
Juan Gris (Spain)
"The Siphon", 1913
oil on canvas
Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. 1959.34
Welcome to the Flat World
Pulitzer Prize-winning Brandeis graduate Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century" analyzes the progress of globalization.
Global Partnerships for Education and Action

Brandeis faculty visited Al-Quds University in October, 2007
Brandeis faculty, staff and students work collaboratively with people and institutions overseas to produce and disseminate knowledge and use that knowledge to advance social change.
Brandeis-Al-Quds Partnership
Brandeis is engaged in a partnership with Al-Quds University, a Palestinian university with its main campus in the West Bank. Activities include faculty exchange on pedagogy and curriculum, and a workshop for undergraduates held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Brandeis International Business School Partnerships
Brandeis' International Business School (IBS) has exchange relationships with some 20 overseas academic institutions around the globe. Many IBS M.A. and M.B.A. students spend one of their four semesters abroad at one of these institutions to experience and be immersed in another country's business practices, culture and language.
Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Partnerships
The Schusterman Center partners with Ben Gurion University of the Negev in the publication of journal Israel Studies.
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Partnerships
The Tauber Institute engages in five partnerships with institutions in Europe and Israel, including Ben Gurion University of the Negev - Heksherim, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Munich, the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History and Tel Aviv University.
Research Partnerships
- Akakura Mountain Shrine Project
- ATLAS
- Brandeis Institute for International Judges
- Classical Artifact Research Center
- Creative Resources for Coexistence and Reconciliation
- Coexistence International
- Development Studies Program (site being updated)
- Eastern European Environmental Education Project (site being updated)
- Energy for Sustainable Development Project: Bangladesh (site being updated)
- Feminist Sexual Ethics Project
- Gender Equity Research Program (site being updated)
- The Genographic Project: Brandeis Explores the Journey of Humankind
- Human Poverty and Human Rights Program (site being updated)
- Integrated Conservation and Development (site being updated)
- Iraq Memory Foundation
- Modernization, Quality of Life, and the Welfare of Indigenous People (site being updated)
- Music Unites Us
- NGO Support Program (site being updated)
- Project on Ethnic Relations
- Puerto Rico: Assessment and Option (site being updated)
- Quality of Life Studies: Puerto Ricans on the Island and the Mainland (site being updated)
- Sierra del Lacandón Archaeology Project
- Smiths Detection-Wangh Labs
- Southern Sudan Cultural Documentation Project
- Summer Institute for Israel Studies