Brandeis Magazine

Winter 2024/2025

Full Issue

Feature Stories

Lou Hartman looking at a book while surrounded by books

A large cache of ordinary books, looted from Jewish homes and institutions by the Nazis, reveal their extraordinary stories at Brandeis.

Dmitry Troyanovsky seated on a spiral staircase.

Dmitry Troyanovsky ’98, associate professor of theater arts, directs stage productions that open hearts and minds.

Illustration of a person with a backpack climbing a mountain of gears to a glowing light bulb.

Brandeis professors explain how the proliferation of AI is changing what they do in the classroom.

Inquiry

Mo Seyedsayamdost

Mo Seyedsayamdost ’01 is on a quest to increase a dwindling arsenal of lifesaving antibiotics.

Mosquito

Blood is thicker than water, the saying goes. This reminder might be useful for humans, but for mosquitoes, choosing between the two is a nonstarter.

Two boats in front of a large glacier.

Oceanographer Sally Warner is reading the future of climate change in glacier walls.

Impact

Two students build a model on a table.

Brandeis prepares to launch its own engineering program with a goal to produce a new generation of technically skilled, intellectually nimble, and socially minded engineers.

Ian Roy speaks to a classroom full of students.

The university debuted its first engineering course, Introduction to Design Methodology, in fall 2023. The course provides an overview of the engineering design process with a focus on human-centered design.

It’s not just students who are excited by the new engineering program. Alumni and friends are making investments to help start and sustain the program.

The Brief

Arthur Levine

An undergraduate alumnus leads Brandeis for the first time in the university’s history.

"Hedges": A house with many sticks poking out of it, surrounded by mirrors

Sculptor Hugh Hayden’s first New England solo exhibition, “Home Work,” is on view at the Rose Art Museum through June 1.

Celebrating noteworthy achievements by the Brandeis community.