Brandeis Magazine

Winter 2023/2024

Inquiry

An illustration of a physician wearing blue scrubs, holding their head in their hands.
Physician, Heal Thyself

Getting to the bottom of burnout in academic medicine.

Students work on projects in an engineering class
Engineering the Future at Brandeis

Brandeis prepares to launch an engineering major.

Hannah Snyder wearing glasses and smiling at the camera
Helping Students Navigate Depression and Anxiety

Finding new solutions for students dealing with depression or anxiety.

Ellen Sidransky
NIH Geneticist Wins Breakthrough Prize for Parkinson’s Finding

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.