The School of Science, Engineering and Technology at Brandeis University encompasses 14 departments and programs granting 26 degrees at the bachelor’s, master’s and PhD levels. Students work together with postdocs, staff and faculty on research projects that target pressing issues in science.
Brandeis is one of the 65 members of the American Association of Universities. School of Science, Engineering and Technology funding sources include the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We also are a National Science Foundation funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), one of only 24 universities nationwide to receive this award.
Brandeis University is listed by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with a “very high spending and doctoral production.”
School Faculty
Among the current Brandeis science faculty with research labs there is:
- a National Medal of Science recipient (Eve Marder)
- a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient (Michael Rosbash)
- a Kavli Prize in Neuroscience recipient (Eve Marder)
- 6 American Association of the Advancement of Science fellows (Irving Epstein, Leslie Griffith, James Haber, Susan Lovett, Eve Marder, and Piali Sengupta).
- 5 members of the National Academy of Sciences (James Haber, Susan Lovett, Eve Marder, Michael Rosbash, Gina Turrigiano)
- 8 members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (Carol Fierke, Jeff Gelles, James Haber, Susan Lovett, Eve Marder, Michael Rosbash, Piali Sengupta and Gina Turrigiano)
- 1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator (Michael Rosbash)
- 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute professors (Irving Epstein, Jane Kondev); and
- a MacArthur Fellow (Gina Turrigiano)
Nobel Prize-Winning Alumni
Two School of Science, Engineering and Technology alumni have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes.
Rod Mackinnon, earned a BA in Biochemistry from Brandeis in 1978 and later returned to do his postdoc in Chris Miller's Biochemistry lab (1986-1989). He received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023. He earned his BA and MA in Biochemistry from Brandeis in 1981.
School of Science, Engineering and Technology Dean
The Dean of the School of Science, Engineering and Technology is Susan Birren, the Zalman Abraham Kekst Professor in Neuroscience