Brandeis University
This page is about the university; if you're looking for the Supreme Court Justice, see Louis Brandeis
Brandeis University
| Motto | Emet (Hebrew for "truth") |
|---|---|
| Established | 1948 |
| School type | Private |
| President | Jehuda Reinharz |
| Location | Waltham, Massachusetts, USA |
| Enrollment | 3,051 undergraduate, 1,346 graduate |
| Faculty | 465 |
| Campus | Suburban, 235 acres |
| Mascot | Ollie, the Owl |
| Homepage | www.brandeis.edu |
Brandeis University is a small, private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, 10 miles from Boston. Founded in 1948 on the site of the former Middlesex University, Brandeis is the youngest private research university, as well as the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college or university in the United States. The university is named for the late United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis.
About Brandeis
As of 2003, the university had approximately 3000 undergraduates, 1300 graduate students and 500 faculty members.
The schools of the University include:
- The College of Arts and Sciences
- The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- The Heller School for Social Policy and Management:
- Lown School of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
- Rabb School of Summer and Continuing Studies
- The Brandeis International Business School
- The Volen National Center for Complex Systems
- The Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory
Brandeis is also known as home to the Rose Art Museum, a museum of modern and contemporary art.
The Brandeis University Press publishes books in a variety of scholarly and general interest fields.
The university's athletic teams ("The Judges") compete in the University Athletic Association (UAA) conference of the NCAA Division III.
Majors
Famous alumni
- Paula Apsell: Executive Producer of Nova, the longest-running science documentary series and winner of eight Emmy Awards
- Elliot Aronson: Psychologist
- Arthur L. Caplan: Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Radical activist
- Thomas L. Friedman: Foreign Affairs Columnist for The New York Times, the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting and a National Book Award
- Abbie Hoffman: Social and political activist, Co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies")
- John Hopps: Physicist, Politician
- Margo Jefferson: The New York Times Sunday theater critic and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
- Ha Jin: Writer
- Marta Kauffman: Executive Producer and cocreator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Friends, and Cocreator of the comedy series Family Album, Dream On, and The Powers That Be
- Suk-Won Kim: Chair of Ssangyong Business Group, one of the largest companies in the Republic of Korea
- Leslie Lamport: Computer scientist
- Osman Faruk Logoglu: Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of Turkey
- Roderick MacKinnon: Head of the Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
- Gates McFadden: Actress, best known as television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Fatema Mernissi: Leading authority on Koranic studies in the Arab world
- Dimitrij Rupel: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
- Eli J. Segal: Assistant to the President of the United States from 1993 - 1996
- Stephen J. Solarz: Former U.S. Representative and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
Notable professors
- Robert Reich: The 22nd United States Secretary of Labor from 1993 - 1997