August 2025
Features
This summer, Walid Ichcho ’27 put his passion for medicine and research into practice during a 12-week internship at Stanford Medicine.
Staff from the Hiatt Career Center invited first-year students to think creatively about how a Brandeis liberal arts education can help shape their future.
This weekend students moved into residence halls, met roommates and started making Brandeis their new home as campus sprang to life for Move-in Day and New Student Orientation.
Matthew Pfeffer ’27, an economics and art history major, never planned on a career in law — until his Brandeis education helped him thrive at a top New York firm and sparked a new career path.
During an internship in Jackson, Mississippi, Lauren Balfour ’28 learned how transformative it can be for Southern Jews to share religious and cultural experiences, make connections and understand their region’s complicated past.
Each summer, Brandeis students immerse themselves in faculty-mentored research and share their discoveries at an annual campus poster session, highlighting the breadth and impact of undergraduate scientists at the university.
School of Business and Economics professor Benjamin Shiller discusses the opportunities, challenges and consumer impacts of the rapidly evolving practice.
Athletics photographer Daniel Oren ’27 showcases the technique, skill, emotion and triumph that make sports so compelling.
Greg Roitbourd ’26 is using acoustic technology to study ecosystems in the North Atlantic — and finding his sea legs in the process.
In the News
Professor Sally Warner interviewed
Article by Associate Research Scientist Graham Wright and Professor Leonard Saxe
Article co-authored by Jenny Small, Associate Director of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
Professor Rachel Fish quoted
Professor Traci Green quoted
Brandeis construction project featured
Article by Associate Research Scientist Graham Wright
Brandeis study featured
Interview with Professor Nader Habibi
Of Note
Jonathan S. Anjaria to use National Science Foundation award to research ways to leverage high demand for expertise in human behavior.
Assistant Professor of Biology Christine Grienberger has been selected as a 2025 McKnight Scholar, receiving one of neuroscience's most prestigious early-career awards.
Brandeis University has been named to The Princeton Review’s 2026 Best Colleges list.
Yerbol Z. Kurmangaliyev, assistant professor of biology at Brandeis, has been named to the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences.
Reshaping the academic enterprise will prepare Brandeis students to apply the liberal arts to better activate their learning and be career ready.