'Brandeis University' is a private
university located in
Waltham, Massachusetts,
United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, nine miles west of
Boston. As of the 2006/07 term, the university had 3,304 undergraduates, 2,009 graduate students and 499 faculty members.
Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a
coeducational institution on the site of the former
Middlesex University. The
Heller School for Social Policy and Management, founded in 1959, is noteworthy for its graduate programs in
social policy,
social work, and
international development.
The university is named for the first Jewish Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856–1941).
Brandeis is also the sponsor of the famous
Wien International Scholarship for non-American students.
About Brandeis
Chapel's Pond
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
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Rabb School of Summer and Continuing Studies
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Brandeis International Business School
The College of Arts and Sciences comprises 24 departments and 22 interdepartmental programs, which offer 41 majors and 46 minors. The Provost of the university,
Marty Krauss, is an expert on disability policy and family-based caregiving. Brandeis is home to the
Rose Art Museum, a museum of modern and contemporary art, widely renowned as the best modern art museum in New England.
The
Brandeis University Press, a member of the
University Press of New England, publishes books in a variety of scholarly and general interest fields.
The
Goldfarb Library at Brandeis has more than 1.2 million books and 60,000 e-journals. It also has a section of monthly issues.
Presidents
The presidents of Brandeis University have been:
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Abram L. Sachar 1948-
1968
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Morris B. Abram 1968-
1970
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Charles I. Schottland 1970-
1972
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Marver H. Bernstein 1972-
1983
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Evelyn E. Handler 1983-
1991
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Stuart H. Altman (interim)
1990-
1991
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Samuel O. Thier, M.D.
1991-
1994
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Jehuda Reinharz 1994-
Student life
The university has an active student government, the Brandeis Student Union
[1], as well as more than 250 student organizations.
[2] Fraternities and sororities are officially prohibited by Brandeis University, as they are contrary to a central tenet of the university, namely, that student organizations be open to all students, with membership determined by competency or interest. "Exclusive or secret societies are inconsistent with the principles of openness to which the University is committed."
[3]. The university is 9 miles west of Boston, and students are able to take a free shuttle into the city Thursday through Sunday.
Brandeis has two administratively independent student newspapers,
The Justice and
The Hoot, and one satirical paper,
The Blowfish.
WBRS at 100.1
FM is the school's
radio station.
Emergency medical services are provided by the
Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps (BEMCo).
Brandeis has a large number of
a cappella groups, one sketch comedy troupe
Boris' Kitchen and four
improv-comedy groups.
Athletics
The Brandeis University athletic teams ("The Judges") compete in the
University Athletic Association (UAA) conference of the
NCAA Division III. The school's colors are blue and white.
Brandeis has 10 varsity teams for both men and women, and 1 coed varsity team. The varsity teams are in:
Brandeis also has more than 18 club sports, including
rugby,
ultimate,
crew and
martial arts.
Brandeis has had an impressive list of coaches for its athletic teams, from
Bud Collins and the men's tennis team in the late 1950s and early 1960s to
K.C. Jones leading the men's basketball squad in the 1960s.
Pete Varney, the former
Major League Baseball player for the
Chicago White Sox and
Atlanta Braves is the current head coach of the baseball team.
History of Brandeis
Founders
Names associated with the conception of Brandeis include
Israel Goldstein, George Alpert, C. Ruggles Smith,
Albert Einstein, and
Abram L. Sachar.
Usen Castle, the most recognized building on campus
C. Ruggles Smith was the son of Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of
Middlesex University, who had died in 1944. In 1946, the university was on the brink of collapse. It was in grave financial peril. At the time, it was one of the few medical schools in the U. S. that did not impose a
Jewish quota; but it had never been able to secure
AMA accreditation—in part, its founder believed, due to institutional antisemitism in the AMA
[ The Founding Reis, Arthur H., Jr , pp. 42-3: founder's son C. Ruggles Smith quoted: "From its inception, Middlesex was ruthlessly attacked by the American Medical Association, which at that time was dedicated to restricting the production of physicians, and to maintaining an inflexible policy of discrimination in the admission of medical students. Middlesex, alone among medical schools, selected its students on the basis of merit, and refused to establish any racial quotas"]—and, as a result, Massachusetts had all but shut it down.
Israel Goldstein was a prominent rabbi in New York from 1918 until 1960 when he emigrated to Israel. He was an influential Zionist. Before 1946, he had headed the New York Board of Rabbis, the Jewish National Fund, and the Zionist Organization of America, and helped found the National Conference of Christians and Jews. On his eightieth birthday, in Israel, Yitzhak Rabin and other leaders of the government, the parliament, and the Zionist movement assembled at his house to pay him tribute.
[1] But among all his accomplishments, the one chosen by the New York Times to headline his obituary was: "Rabbi Israel Goldstein, A Founder of Brandeis."
[2]
C. Ruggles Smith, desperate for a way to save something of Middlesex University, learned of a New York committee headed by Goldstein that was seeking a campus to establish a Jewish-sponsored secular university, and approached Goldstein with a proposal to give the Middlesex campus and charter to Goldstein's committee, in the hope that his committee might "possess the apparent ability to reestablish the School of Medicine on an approved basis." Goldstein was concerned about being saddled with a failing medical school, but excited about the opportunity to secure "a 100-acre campus not far from New York, the premier Jewish community in the world, and only 10 miles from Boston, one of the important Jewish population centers."
[op. cit] Goldstein agreed to accept Smith's offer.
Goldstein then proceeded to recruit George Alpert, a Boston lawyer with fund-raising experience as national vice president of the United Jewish Appeal.
George Alpert (1898-
September 11,
1988) was a Boston lawyer who had worked his way through
Boston University School of Law. He cofounded the firm of Alpert and Alpert. His firm had a long association with the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, of which he was to become president from 1956 to 1961
[George Alpert, 90; was a Founder and First Chairman of Brandeis; ''The Boston Globe, September 13, 1988, p. 82][3] (He is best known today as the father of Richard Alpert (
Baba Ram Dass)
[4]). He was influential in Boston's Jewish community. His Judaism "tended to be social rather than spiritual."
[4] He was involved in assisting children displaced from Germany.
[5].
Alpert was to be chairman of Brandeis from 1946 to 1954, and a director from 1946 until his death.
[op. cit.]
Goldstein also recruited Albert Einstein, whose involvement, while stormy and short-lived, was extremely important. It drew national attention to the nascent university. The founding organization was named "The Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc." and early press accounts emphasized his involvement.
The Einstein incident
The origin of what was to become Brandeis was closely associated with the name of
Albert Einstein from
February 5,
1946,
[ Reis, Arthur H. Jr, The Albert Einstein Involvement , pp. 60-61: Source for Einstein agreeing to establishment of the foundation Feb. 5th, 1946, foundation incorporated Feb. 25; for Alpert quotation, "a man utterly alien to American principles of democracy, tarred with the Communist brush;" for Einstein's refusal to accept an honorary degree in 1953.] when he agreed the establishment of the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc., until
June 22,
1947, when he withdrew his support.
["Goldstein Quits Einstein Agency; Rabbi Resigns Presidency of Foundation that Plans to Build a University." ''The New York Times,'' September 26, 1946, p. 27. "Goldstein issued a statement to correct an erroneous item in a Jewish weekly newspaper printed on Boston. This said Dr. Einstein was withdrawing from the foundation." Goldstein cited "differences on matters of public relations and faculty selection." A foundation director is quoted as saying "Professor Einstein's devotion to and enthusiasm for our purposes are now and always have been strong and unswerving." A board member who "withheld use of his name" is reported as saying Goldstein and Einstein differed "over plans for a major fund-raising meeting for the new university to be held here in November. He indicated that differences over Zionism were also a factor." NYT characterized the university as "a Jewish-supported non-quota university."]
The trustees offered to name the university after Einstein in the summer of 1946, but Einstein declined, and on July 16, 1946 the board decided the university would be named after
Louis Brandeis.
[6]
On August 19, the plans for the new university were announced by prominent rabbi and Zionist
Israel Goldstein, president of the Albert Einstein Foundation. Goldstein said that the planned university was to be supported by contributions from Jewish organizations and individuals, and stressed the point that the institution was to be without quotas and open to all "regardless of race, color, or creed." The institution was to be "deeply conscious both of the Hebraic tradition of Torah looking upon culture as a birthright, and of the American ideal of an educated democracy."
[7] In later stories the New York Times' capsule characterization of Brandeis was "a Jewish-supported non-quota university."
[op. cit]
Einstein and Goldstein clashed almost immediately. Einstein objected to what he thought was excessively expansive promotion, and to Goldstein's sounding out
Abram L. Sachar as a possible president without consulting Einstein. Einstein took great offense at Goldstein's having invited
Cardinal Spellman to participate in a fundraising event. Einstein resigned on
September 2,
1946. Believing the venture could not succeed without Einstein, Goldstein quickly agreed to resign himself, and Einstein returned; his brief departure was publicly denied.
[ Brandeis University: A Host at Last, , Abram L., Sachar, Brandeis University Press, distributed by University Press of New England, 1995, ISBN 0-87451-585-8 pp. 18-22: Einstein-Goldstein clashes, Einstein's objections to Cardinal Spellman; conflict over veterinary school; conflict over Harold Laski; Alpert quotation, "I can compromise on any subject but one: that one is Americanism."][op. cit.]
The Foundation acquired the campus of the Middlesex University in Waltham, which was almost defunct except for the Middlesex Veterinary and Medical College. The charter of this small and marginal operation was transferred to the Foundation along with the campus. The Foundation had pledged to continue operating it, but began to feel that it would never be more than third-rate, while its operating costs were burdensome at a time when the Foundation was trying to raise funds. Disputes arose whether to try to improve it—as Einstein wished
[8]—or to terminate it.
[op. cit.] Einstein also became alarmed by press announcements that exaggerated the school's success at fundraising, and on
June 22,
1947 he made a final break with the enterprise. The veterinary school was closed, despite "indignant and well-publicized protests and demonstrations by the disappointed students and their parents"
[op. cit.]. George Alpert, a lawyer responsible for much of the organizational effort, gave another reason for the break: Einstein's desire to offer the presidency of the school to left-wing scholar
Harold J. Laski. Alpert characterized Laski as "a man utterly alien to American principles of democracy, tarred with the Communist brush."
[op. cit] He said, "I can compromise on any subject but one: that one is Americanism."
[op. cit].
Six years later, Einstein would decline the offer of an honorary degree from Brandeis, writing to Brandeis president
Abram L. Sachar that "what happened in the stage of preparation of Brandeis University was not at all caused by a misunderstanding and cannot be made good any more."
[op. cit]
Historians Slater and Slater commented that "plagued by infighting, Brandeis in early 1948 seemed a project in serious trouble. Nonetheless, the school opened in the fall with 107 students." They list the opening of Brandeis as one of their "Great Moments in Jewish History."
[ Great Moments in Jewish History, , Elinor, Slater, Jonathan David Company, Inc., 1999, ISBN 0-8246-0408-3 pp. 121-3, "Brandeis University Founded"]
In 1954 Brandeis inaugurated a graduate program and became fully accredited.
[op. cit]
Other notable events
The student takeover of Ford Hall
From January 8-18, 1969 about 70 students captured and held then-student-center, Ford Hall.
[9] The student protesters renamed the school "Malcolm X University" for the duration of the siege (distributing buttons with the new name and logo) and issued a list of ten demands for better minority representation on campus.
[10] Most of these demands were subsequently met.
Notable faculty and staff
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Teresa M. Amabile: Social and organizational psychologist
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Robert J. Art: International Politics
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Leonard Bernstein: Composer and conductor
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Olga Broumas: Poet
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Mary Baine Campbell: Poet and critic
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Stephen Cecchetti: Economist
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Jacob "Jerry" Cohen: Expert on conspiracy theories (particularly the assassination of JFK)
★
Thomas Doherty: Film studies expert, author of
Pre-Code Hollywood
★
Gordie Fellman: Peace Studies pioneer, author of
Rambo and the Dalai Lama
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David Hackett Fischer: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author
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Benny Friedman:
Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback; former Athletic Director (1949-1961) and the final Coach of Brandeis' football team (1951-1959)
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Thomas Friedman: columnist for
The New York Times; three-time winner of the
Pulitzer Prize; author of ''
The World is Flat'' and expert on
globalization
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Allen Grossman:
MacArthur Foundation "genius-award" winning poet and critic
★
Timothy J Hickey: Computer scientist
★
Anita Hill: Lawyer and social policy expert
★
Heisuke Hironaka:
Mathematician,
Fields Medal winner.
★
Irving Howe: Political theorist, Editor and founder of
''Dissent''
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Paul Jankowski: Historian
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William E. Kapelle: Medieval historian
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Dorothee Kern: Biochemist, former basketball player for the German national team
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Walter Laqueur: Historian and political commentator.
★
Max Lerner Author, syndicated columnist, and editor
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Martin Levin: Public Policy expert.
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Kanan Makiya: Iraqi dissident, advocate of the 2003 U.S. invasion of
Iraq
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Herbert Marcuse: Social theorist and member of the
Frankfurt School
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Abraham Maslow: Psychologist noted for humanistic approach
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Pauli Murray: Feminist and civil rights expert.
★
Ulric Neisser: A pioneer in development of cognitive psychology
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Irene Pepperberg: Student of cognition in non-human animals, particularly parrots
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James Pustejovsky: Linguist, Proposer of
Generative Lexicon Theory
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Philip Rahv: Literary and Social Critic, Editor and Founder of "
Partisan Review"
★
Robert Reich:
United States Secretary of Labor, 1993 - 1997, candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 2002
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Margret Rey:
Author and
illustrator
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Eleanor Roosevelt:
First Lady of the United States
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Dennis Ross: Special envoy/ambassador to Middle East under President
Bill Clinton
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Jonathan Sarna: Sociologist and Author
★
Morrie Schwartz: Sociologist; inspiration for his student
Mitch Albom to write the book ''
Tuesdays with Morrie''
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Marion Smiley: J.P. Morgan Chase Chair in Ethics
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Thomas Sowell: American economist, senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution
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Andreas Teuber: Chair, Department of Philosophy, Member and Fellow of the
Institute for Advanced Study,
Fulbright Scholar,
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Recipient, actor in the movie
Doctor Faustus.
★
Gina Turrigiano: Neuroscientist, winner of the 2000
MacArthur "Genius" Award
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Stephen J. Whitfield: expert on American Jewish history
★
Leslie Zebrowitz: Social Psychologist
Notable alumni
Government, law and politics
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Jack Abramoff: Republican activist, founder of International Freedom Foundation, lobbyist (pleaded guilty to three felonies in 2006), writer and producer of the movie ''
Red Scorpion''
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Sidney Blumenthal: Adviser to President
Bill Clinton and journalist
[5]
★
Naomi Reice Buchwald:
United States District Court Judge,
Southern District of New York [6]
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Bernard Coard:
Grenadian politician who led the
coup that ousted
Maurice Bishop[7]
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Jennifer Casolo: Peace activist
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Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, political activist
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Geir Haarde:
Prime Minister of
Iceland[11][12]
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Wakako Hironaka: Member of the
Diet of Japan, State Minister, Director-General of the Environment Agency (1993-94)
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Abbie Hoffman: Social and political activist, Co-founder of the
Youth International Party ("Yippies")
[8]
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Otis Johnson :
Mayor of
Savannah, Georgia
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Marcel Kahan: Published legal pundit and corporate law professor at the
New York University School of Law.
★
Joette Katz: Associate Justice of the
Connecticut Supreme Court
★
Osman Faruk Logoglu: Former
Ambassador to
the United States from the
Republic of Turkey
★
Katherine Ann Power: Anti-war activist and former fugitive from justice
[13]
★
Dimitrij Rupel: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Slovenia[9]
★
George Saitoti: Former Vice President of the Republic of Kenya and former Minister of Finance, Government of Kenya
★
Michael Sandel: Professor of Political Philosophy at
Harvard University and former member of the
President's Council on Bioethics
★
Eli J. Segal: Assistant to the
President of the United States from 1993 - 1996
[10]
★
Stephen J. Solarz: Former
U.S. Representative from
Brooklyn, New York
[11]
★
Shen Tong: Student leader in the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989[12]
★
Nikolai Vassilliev: Deputy prime minister of
Bulgaria [13]
★
Gerald Zerkin: Attorney for
Zacarias Moussaoui.
Academia
★
Bonnie Berger: Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
★
David Bernstein: Law professor and blogger
[14]
★
Arthur L. Caplan: Director of the Center for Bioethics at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
★
Jean Bethke Elshtain: Professor at the
University of Chicago, feminist, political philosopher
★
John Hopps: Physicist, Politician
★
Arthur Levine: President of
Columbia University Teachers College; recently appointed Woodrow Wilson Foundation
[15]
★
Deborah Lipstadt:
Historian[16]
★
Fatema Mernissi: Moroccan sociologist.
[17]
★
Elisa New:
Harvard University professor and wife of
Lawrence Summers, former President of Harvard University
[18]
★
Alicia Ostriker:
Poet, scholar, Professor at
Rutgers University
★
Philip Rubin: Cognitive scientist, CEO and senior scientist,
Haskins Laboratories
★
Paul Sally: Mathematician at the
University of Chicago
★
Fr. Antonio S. Samson: president of
Jesuit-run
Ateneo de Davao University in the
Philippines[19]
★
Judith Shapiro: President,
Barnard College
★
Robert F.X. Sillerman: Media entrepreneur; CEO of CKX (owner of
Elvis Presley Enterprises and
American Idol); chancellor of
Long Island University's
Southampton College
★
Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the
Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton,
New Jersey Walzer's CV (PDF)
★
Robert J. Zimmer: Mathematician, president of the
University of Chicago[20]
Arts and media
★
Kathy Acker: novelist
★
Mitch Albom: Sports columnist for the ''
Detroit Free Press'', author of ''
Tuesdays With Morrie'', ''
The Five People You Meet in Heaven''
[14]
★
Paula Apsell: Executive Producer of
Nova, the longest-running science documentary series and winner of eight
Emmy Awards
★
Morton Brilliant: Wikipedia-using campaign manager
[21]
★
Peter Childs: composer
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Joe Conason:
New York Observer political columnist
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David Crane: Co-creator, writer, and executive producer of television series ''
Friends''
[22]
★
Tyne Daly:
Actress[23]
★
Stuart Damon:
Actor- student name - Stewart Zonis - long term role on 'General Hospital'
★
Loretta Devine:
Actress in television series ''
Boston Public'' and ''
Grey's Anatomy'', and films, including "Crash" (2005)
[24]
★
Thomas L. Friedman: Foreign Affairs Columnist for
The New York Times; winner of
National Book Award and three-time winner of
Pulitzer Prize.
[25]
★
Tony Goldwyn: Actor and Director
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Marshall Herskovitz: Director and Producer of the movie
Dangerous Beauty; Producer and Screenwriter of
Last Samurai, Producer of
I Am Sam and
Traffic.
[26]
★
Chuck Israels: jazz musician, bassist
★
Margo Jefferson:
The New York Times Sunday theater critic and winner of a
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
★
Ha Jin:
Novelist, winner of the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award
[27]
★
Michael Kaiser: President,
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
★
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''
★
Louise Lasser: Actress
★
Peter Lieberson: composer
★
Steven Mackey: composer
★
Mark Leyner:
Novelist
★
Gates McFadden:
Actress, best known as
Dr. Beverly Crusher on the television series
[28]
★
Michael McDowell (author): novelist and script writer
★
Debra Messing:
Actress in television series ''
Will & Grace''
[29]
★
Walter Mossberg:
Wall Street Journal Technology Columnist
[30]
★
Josh Mostel: Character actor in over 50 films and television shows, including the ''
Animal House'' spinoff ''
Delta House''
★
Barry Newman:
Actor
★
Anand Patwardhan: Indian filmmaker
★
Martin Peretz: Editor in chief of ''
The New Republic''
[31]
★
Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Author, journalist, social activist, a founding editor of
Ms. Magazine
★
Tom Rapp: singer/songwriter, previously of
Pearls Before Swine
★
Theresa Rebeck: playwright.
★
David Ian Salter:
Film editor of ''
Toy Story 2'' and ''
Finding Nemo''
[32]
★
Bill Schneider:
CNN's senior political analyst
[33]
★
Bob Simon:
CBS correspondent for 60 Minutes
★
Christina Hoff Sommers: author, resident scholar at the
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research [34]
★
Karen Sosnoski: author and filmmaker
★
Robin Weigert: Actress (
Calamity Jane in
HBO's ''
Deadwood'')
★
Penelope Trunk: Author of Brazen Careerist: New Rules for Success
[35], Columnist, Boston Globe and Yahoo! Finance
[36]
Business
★
Leonard Asper:
CanWest CEO
[37]
★
Mitch Caplan: President and CEO,
E-Trade Group
[38]
★
Jeri Bloch Finard: Chief Marketing Officer,
Kraft Foods, Inc.
[39]
★
Ellen Gordon: Chief Operating Officer,
Tootsie Roll Industries
[40]
★
Christie Hefner: Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,
Playboy Enterprises, Inc., daughter of
Hugh Hefner [41] [42]
★
Myra Hiatt Kraft: Philanthropist and wife of
Bob Kraft, owner of
New England Patriots
★
Suk-Won Kim: Chair of
Ssangyong Business Group, one of the largest companies in the
Republic of Korea[43]
★
Jeffrey Lurie: Owner of
Philadelphia Eagles
★
Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson: Vice president of
Time Warner Digital Media - Former CEO and president of
Sony Interfactive Entertainment and responsible for the introduction of
PlayStation
★
Robert F.X. Sillerman: Chairman,
SFX Entertainment
[44]
Science
★
Nathan Cohen: Physicist and inventor (see
fractal antennas )
★
Judith Rich Harris: Psychologist
★
Leslie Lamport: Computer scientist and inventor of
LaTeX, a widely-used document preparation system
★
Roderick MacKinnon: Head of the
Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Recipient of the
Nobel Prize in
Chemistry,
2003
★
Janet Akyüz Mattei: Turkish-American astronomer and former director of the
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
★
Patrick Tufts: Notable computer scientist and inventor
★
Karen Uhlenbeck: Mathematician
★
Edward Witten: Physicist, Recipient of the
Fields Medal in
1990 [45]
Sports
★
Nelson Figueroa: Major League baseball pitcher for the
Arizona Diamondbacks,
Philadelphia Phillies,
Milwaukee Brewers and
Pittsburgh Pirates.
[46]. Famously traded in a deal that brought
Curt Schilling from the Phillies to the Diamondbacks.
Publications
★ ''
The Justice'', which was founded in 1949 (one year after the university's inception) is an administratively independent weekly newspaper distributed every Tuesday during term.
★ ''
The Brandeis Hoot'', founded in 2005, is an independent weekly newspaper published on Fridays.
★ ''
The Blowfish'', a satirical newspaper which was founded in February 2006 is published every other Thursday. The first issue appeared inside ''The Hoot'' and every issue since then has been published independently.
★ ''
The Louis Lunatic'', founded in the winter of 2005, is a student-run sports magazine released each semester, discussing Brandeis and national sports.
★ ''Archon'', the yearbook
★ ''
Gravity'', a humor magazine founded in 1990.
★ ''Laurel Moon'', a literary magazine
★ ''Where the Children Play'', a literature and arts magazine
★ ''Louis Magazine'', a defunct journal of intellectual discourse, 1999–2002.
★ ''The Barrister News Ltd'', a politically neutral broadside weekly newspaper with nationally syndicated features. 1985–1991.
★ ''Under the Robe'', an arts and entertainment social tabloid published by ''The Barrister'' 1985-1988
In popular culture
★ In the 2007 movie ''
Music and Lyrics'',
Drew Barrymore wears a Brandeis sweatshirt.
★ In ''
The Simpsons'' episode "
Today I Am a Clown", Lisa tells about her imaginary friend named Rachel Cohen "who just got into Brandeis."
★ In the film ''
Hannah and Her Sisters'',
Dianne Wiest's character ponders:
Where did April come up with that
stuff about Adolph Loos and terms
like "organic form"?
Well, naturally. She went to
Brandeis.
★ In the 1977
Woody Allen movie ''
Annie Hall'', Allen accuses
Carol Kane of being like "New York, Jewish, left-wing, liberal, intellectual, Central Park West, Brandeis University."
★ In ''
Angel'', Wesley gets excited when he thinks he's meeting an archaeologist from Brandeis.
★ In ''
Gilmore Girls'',
Paris suggests to
Rory that she should go to Brandeis instead of
Harvard.
★ In the 1998 movie ''
Free Enterprise'', one of the minor characters (who is played by writer Mark Altman) wears a Brandeis sweatshirt. Altman also attended Brandeis.
References
1. "Israeli Officials Honor Longtime Zionist Leader,"
''The New York Times,'' June 28, 1976, p. 14
2. "Rabbi Israel Goldstein, A Founder of Brandeis", ''The New York Times,'' April 13, 1986, p. 40"
3. Lyall, Sarah (1988): "George Alpert, 90, Ex-President Of New Haven Line and a Lawyer," ''The New York Times,'' September 13, 1988, pp. D26
4. Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream, , Jay, Stevens, Grove Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8021-3587-0 p. 152
5. Following Our Bliss: How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today, , Don, Lattin, HarperCollins, 2004, ISBN 0-06-073063-3 p. 161
6. Reis, Arthur H., Jr. Naming the University , pp. 66-7
7. "New Jewish Unit Plans University," ''The New York Times,'' August 20, 1946, p. 10.
8. "Dr. Einstein Quits University Plan; Withdraws Support of Brandeis and Bars Use of His Name By Einstein Foundation." ''The New York Times,'' June 22, 1947: "These disputes centered mainly on the operation of the veterinarian school of Middlesex University... S. Ralph Lazrus... withdrew as president of the foundation. Dr. Lazrus said he and his associates had been critical of both the manner in which the present limited facilities of the school have been operated and of the policies contemplated for the future."
9. The Student Occupation of Ford Hall, January 1969
10. The Ten Demands
11. Minister for Foreign Affairs, H.E. Mr. Geir H. Haarde Iceland Ministry for Foreign Affairs
12. Two to receive Brandeis Alumni Achievement Awards David E. Nathan
13. Letters of Sidney Hook: Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War, , Sidney, Hook, M. E. Sharpe, 1995, ISBN 1-56324-487-X p. 297: "In 1970, Katherine Anne Power, then a senior at Brandeis University, took part in a robbery in Boston of the State Street Bank and Trust..."; "Q & A with Katherine Power's Parents," ''The Boston Globe,'' October 28, 1981: "Among the radical '60s activists still underground is Katherine Ann Power who, while a 22-year-old student at Brandeis University, allegedly participated in the robbery of a Boston bank during which a police officer was killed."
14. Mitch Albom bio
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The Rose Art Museum
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The Volen National Center for Complex Systems
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Ashton Graybiel Laboratory
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The Heller School
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SunDeis Film Festival
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Middlesex University (Massachusetts)
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