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Students on the Brandeis campus getting ready for the eclipse near the Brandeis statue
Solar eclipse on campus
Students flooded campus on Monday, April 8, to experience the solar eclipse.
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One student with long hair looks into a binocular microscope while another behind her holds a pipette and a test tube.

Blavatnik Family Foundation makes $6 million gift to support life science research at Brandeis

The fellowships will allow Brandeis doctoral students to develop into future leaders in biotechnology and biomedical research.

Roy DeBerry ’70, GSAS MA’78, PhD’79

The Ashland Brandeis Connection: A collaboration in education

Through an initiative known as the Ashland Brandeis Connection, 13 Brandeis undergraduate volunteers, living more than 1,000 miles from the Ashland School District, are tutoring students in math twice weekly by Zoom.

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Bringing Yiddish culture to life through poetry and art

By engaging with poetry through visual art, Nathan Bernstein ’24 is bringing the Yiddish language to three dimensional life. His work, entitled “Lider un Kunst,” will be on display during the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts in the Shapiro Campus Center lounge across from the SCC theater, April 6-14, 2024.

Of Note

Brandeis Junior Selected as Truman Scholar

For the first time in 16 years, a Brandeis student has been selected as a Truman Scholar. Daniel Block '25 will be one of only 60 scholars selected this year from students nationwide.

The Heller School Recognized as a Top 10 Graduate School

U.S. News & World Report ranks Heller #9 for social policy, and #13 for health policy and management.

Brandeis undergrads earn Fulbright grant, Goldwater scholarships

Three Brandeis University undergraduates have received prestigious academic honors.

A group of students sit on the grass wearing eclipse viewing glasses and look up to the sky.
Photography

Scene at Brandeis

Scene at Brandeis is a series featuring the work of Brandeis' staff photographers.

By Dan Holmes and Gaelen Morse

In the News

These are 2024′s Mass. college and university commencement speakers

Mass Live

Brandeis Commencement speakers mentioned

Jewish origins of Mozart’s librettist a ‘poorly kept secret’

JNS

Professor emeritus Rob Marshall cited

Three decades after she testified, Anita Hill reflects on sexual harassment in the workplace

Today

University Professor Anita Hill featured

Celebrating Brandeis at 75: Then, Now, and Next

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75,000 Acts and Counting: Through Service Initiative, Alumni Work to ‘Repair the World’
Black and white image of a man wearing a suit and cutting a ribbon.

Toasting 50 Years of the Stein

An illustration of a broken world and a person applying bandages

What Repairing the World Means to Me
Photo of Diana in black and white

When Ridgewood Was a Cottage
75th Anniversary Website