March 2025
Features
Three transfer students found a welcoming community, meaningful friendships and a place to celebrate their Jewish identities at Brandeis.
Under the direction of Dmitry Troyanovsky and with set design from the Department of Theater Arts chair Cameron Anderson, students, faculty and staff imagine, create, build and rehearse for the Brandeis production of “Intractable Woman.”
Alim Braxton, a writer, rapper, and activist living on death row, shared lessons on life, death, and finding purpose during a DEIS Impact 2025 presentation at Brandeis University.
Legendary former New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet spoke on the Brandeis campus last week, and warned about the dangers facing the country in our hyper-polarized time
In the News
Professor Michael Willrich’s book “American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” featured
Khalil Shikaki, Crown Center for Middle East Studies Founding Senior Fellow, quoted
Professor Nader Habibi interviewed
Rose Art Museum exhibition featured
Article by Professor Thomas Doherty
Article by Professor Nader Habibi
Of Note
The university’s team of seven finished 47th out of 477 in the Putnam Mathematics Competition, with team member Max Shepherd ’26 earning an individual rank of 150th out of 3,988 total contestants.
Brandeis University hosts a groundbreaking discussion with Alim Braxton, calling in live from Wake County Detention Center, and Mark Katz to explore the power of music, justice, and transformation.
The grades are in on the second annual Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Campus Antisemitism Report Card and Brandeis University again received an A.
Article by professor Dominic Hodgkin and colleagues