December 2025
Features
From buzzer-beaters and record-breaking performances to national honors and postseason breakthroughs, the Brandeis Judges delivered an unforgettable year.
Highlights from a year with a lot of them.
Brandeis made headlines all year — from reimagining the liberal arts and cutting-edge research to expert faculty insights and cultural highlights, here’s a look back at the university’s biggest media moments of 2025.
Through a job shadowing opportunity, Brandeis economics student Chiara De Meglio ’27 sees consulting work up close — from her laptop.
Ben Lambright ’24, MS’25 applies computational linguistics and AI to accessible prosthetic design — work that connects his Brandeis graduate research with emerging careers in language technology.
Nine Brandeis students stepped into the world of high-impact research as Atkins Heller Undergraduate Fellows, gaining firsthand experience in the analytical and collaborative work that shapes public policy.
A day of job shadowing with a Brandeis alum at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health opened Esther Bistricer ’26 to new career paths in higher education and the power of alumni connections.
Through job shadow opportunities at two Boston-based financial advisory firms, Matthew Chafin ’27 gained insights into the roles and environments that best fit his values.
A business major at Brandeis, BenAvram serves as the Judges men’s fencing team saber captain while pursuing a fencing career that spans three competitive levels.
In the News
Job shadowing program highlighted
The Brandeis Plan to Reinvent the Liberal Arts cited as an example of an institution "experimenting with genuine reinvention in the education students invest in and how it prepares them for life after they graduate."
Essay by Ayumi Teraoka, assistant professor of politics
Brandeis student founders Ivy Tran and Sherren Jie interviewed
Brandeis partnership with ETS explained
Research by Joshua Meisel, assistant professor of biology, profiled
Prakash Kashwan, associate professor of environmental studies, quoted
President Arthur Levine interviewed; The Brandeis Plan to Reinvent the Liberal Arts profiled
Stephen Van Hooser, associate professor of biology, interviewed
Of Note
Five new microcredentials will be piloted for the spring 2026 semester.