Gaelen Morse

Building drugs like Legos

For decades, a critical surgical drug has come from pig intestines. Chemistry professor Hao Xu has found a new way to build it in the lab instead — and his discovery might help revolutionize drug manufacturing.

Hannah Yevick being interviewed in a lab.
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SciShow highlights Brandeis researcher’s study of “giant cell” in human placenta

The popular YouTube science channel talked with Hannah Yevick, assistant professor of physics, and postdoctoral researcher Caroline Martin about the lab's research and the inspiration for Yevick's work.

Peter Jordan sitting at a desk.

Retired professor pays it forward by leaving $18 million to Brandeis

The gift will create a new senior professorship in theoretical chemistry, a junior professorship in physical chemistry, and three new graduate research fellowships in the Chemistry Department.

Brandeis graduate students speak at a professional development event.

Graduate Affairs offers range of professional development options for spring 2026

Programming aims to help Brandeis graduate students explore careers and build the skills they will need to get the jobs they want.

Naghmeh Sohrabi

Q&A: Naghmeh Sohrabi on the protests in Iran and the possibility of a new regime

Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi says many factors make this wave of protests different.

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Check out the latest issue of Brandeis Magazine

The Winter 2025/2026 edition of Brandeis Magazine discusses Brandeis’ innovative leadership in the ever-shifting landscape of higher education; takes you behind the scenes at a state-of-the-art light microscopy lab; and shares many other fascinating stories about the university’s alumni, faculty, students and staff.

Karen Rogol ’98

Brandeis welcomes new leader of Alumni Relations

Brandeis alumna Karen Rogol ’98 has been appointed assistant vice president of Alumni Relations.

Spotlight on Internships

Around Campus

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What Are The 63 Hidden Ivies? The Full 2025 List Of America’s Elite Colleges Beyond The Ivy League

Brandeis highlighted as one of several "Northeast Hidden Ivies" that combine academic excellence with accessibility, diversity, and modern relevance.

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Brandeis University announces the launch of four new academic schools

Reshaping the academic enterprise will prepare Brandeis students to apply the liberal arts to better activate their learning and be career ready.

Conceptual rendering of the new Center for Jewish Life. People are seen socializing outside a brick building.

Brandeis University and Hillel at Brandeis announce major initiative to strengthen Jewish life on campus

Renovation of former Kutz Hall underscores Brandeis’ historic mission and investment in the Jewish future

Of Note

Brandeis alumna Karen Rogol ’98 has been appointed assistant vice president of Alumni Relations.

Programming aims to help Brandeis graduate students explore careers and build the skills they will need to get the jobs they want.

The gift will create a new senior professorship in theoretical chemistry, a junior professorship in physical chemistry, and three new graduate research fellowships in the Chemistry Department.

Three students stand outside on a snowy campus and one of them is holding a cat wearing a sweater.
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Scene at Brandeis

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

By Dan Holmes and Gaelen Morse

In the News

BBC The Inquiry podcast

Naghmeh Sohrabi, the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, interviewed

The New Yorker

Professor Yehudah Mirsky quoted

SciShow

Professor Hannah Yevick and postdoctoral researcher Caroline Martin interviewed