Brandeis in the news in 2025
December 16, 2025
Brandeis is a community. It’s a community of scholars, of students, of leaders. And whether it was lending expertise to explain complicated world events, joining together to celebrate a milestone, or letting the world know how Brandeis is changing higher education, the Brandeis community had stories to share in 2025. Local, regional and national media organizations took note, keeping Brandeis “In the News” throughout 2025. Here’s a sampling of our time in the spotlight over the past year:
Reinventing the liberal arts
In 2025, Brandeis rolled out a bold, transformative vision to fully integrate the values of a rigorous liberal arts education with career readiness, ethical grounding and lifelong learning. GBH profiled students who participated in a new job shadowing program. The Boston Globe Editorial Board called the plan “worth watching” and the Boston Business Journal interviewed President Arthur Levine.
- GBH: Brandeis bets big on rebuilding the liberal arts around real-world skills
- Boston Globe: Can Brandeis make liberal arts relevant again?
- Boston Business Journal: Brandeis announces $25 million investment in career-focused curriculum
Research
Brandeis is a world-class research institution; students from across the globe come here to collaborate with award-winning faculty and explore without boundaries. Faculty research lives on the front lines of today’s most pressing problems, and numerous scientific journals and news outlets covered the latest discoveries, publications and findings to come out of Brandeis in 2025.
- New Scientist: Lumpy ‘caterpillar wormholes’ may connect entangled black holes
- The Waltham Times: Floods in Waltham – local memories help prepare for climate-related challenges
- Times of Israel: ‘Transformative’: After 25 years, has Birthright Israel really reshaped US Jewry?
- Phys.org: Mechanical compression induces multicellular organization in archaea
- The Forward: Six categories of Jewish students fill in the ‘missing middle’ pieces of campus antisemitism puzzle
- Inside Higher Ed: Right-Leaning Faculty Likelier to Be ‘Hostile’ to Jews, Report Finds
Faculty expertise
Faculty expertise runs deep at Brandeis, and professors and researchers from across the university helped the world better understand a host of subjects, including Jewish history and traditions, tensions in Israel and the Middle East and the science of hurricanes.
- USA Today: JD Vance travels to Israel to save Trump’s Israel-Hamas peace deal
- Smithsonian Magazine: At this Harlem chef’s table, the Rosh Hashana menu is full of Ethiopian spices
- New York Times: Tracking the aftermath from Erin on the ocean
- CNN: ‘The war has increased Iran’s rationale for having nuclear weapons,’ says arms control expert
- The Atlantic: The two extremists driving Israel’s policy
Culture and institutional excellence
The Boston Globe reviewed the “Fred Wilson: Reflections” exhibit at the Rose Art Museum, a profound examination of cultural narratives and historical erasures, featuring Wilson’s black-and-white Murano glassworks and the immersive installation “Black Now!” Several news outlets followed up on a story that first appeared in Brandeis Magazine about work at Brandeis to identify and preserve books circulating in the library that may have been looted by the Nazis from European Jews. The Globe also profiled students who are developing a new app that makes connecting with each other over meals a little easier.
