Brandeis University
| Brandeis University | |
|---|---|
| motto | אמת ("truth") |
| founding | 1948 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Waltham (Massachusetts) , USA |
| president | Ronald D. Liebowitz |
| Students | 5,945 |
| Foundation assets | US $ 770 million |
| University sports | UAA |
| Networks | Association of American Universities |
| Website | www.brandeis.edu |
The Brandeis University (or simply Brandeis ) is a private university in Waltham , east of the US state of Massachusetts . In 2014 there were around 5,900 students enrolled at the university. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading research-intensive North American universities that has existed since 1900.
history
Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a non-denominational university with the sponsorship of the American Jewish community. The university was named after Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), the first Jewish judge on the United States Supreme Court . It is open to students of all nationalities, religions and political orientations. However, around 50% of the students are still Jewish today.
The National Center for Jewish Film , the largest Jewish film archive outside of Israel, has been located at Brandeis since 1976 .
Until November 2013 there was a partnership with the Arab al-Quds University in Jerusalem .
Departments
- Department of Biochemistry
- Interdepartmental Program in Biological Physics
- Department of Biology
- Graduate Program in Biophysics and Structural Biology
- Brandeis International Business School
- Department of Chemistry
- Michtom School of Computer Science
- Interdepartmental Program in Environmental Studies
- Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling
- Heller School for Social Policy and Management
- Interdepartmental Program in Health: Science, Society and Policy
- Department of Mathematics
- Graduate Program in Molecular and Cell Biology
- Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience
- Martin A. Fisher School of Physics
- Department of Psychology
Sports
The sports teams at Brandeis University are called the Judges . The university is a member of the University Athletic Association .
Famous Graduates
- Kathy Acker (1947–1997) - writer
- Mitch Albom (born 1958) - journalist and writer
- Elliot Aronson (* 1932) - psychologist
- Alvaro Cordero (* 1954) - composer and music teacher
- Tyne Daly (born 1946) - actress
- Loretta Devine (born 1949) - actress
- Thomas L. Friedman (born 1953) - journalist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Tony Goldwyn (born 1960) - actor, director and film producer
- Debra Granik (born 1963) - filmmaker
- Geir Hilmar Haarde (* 1951) - Prime Minister of Iceland
- Dorothy Iannone (born 1933) - artist
- Laura Janner-Klausner (* 1963), Chief Rabbi of Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom
- Ha Jin (* 1956) - author and winner of the PEN / Faulkner Awards
- Marta Kauffman (* 1956) - producer of Friends
- Leslie Lamport (* 1941) - computer scientist and developer of LaTeX
- Peter Ludes (* 1950) - communication scientist
- Deborah Lipstadt (* 1947) - historian
- Roderick MacKinnon (* 1956) - biochemist and physician, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2003)
- Gates McFadden (born 1949) - actress
- David Oshinsky (born 1944) - historian, Pulitzer Prize for History (2006)
- Lewis Porter (born 1951) - author, musician, musicologist
- Michael Rosen (* 1938) - mathematician
- Joseph Ruben (born 1950) - screenwriter and director
- Dimitrij Rupel (* 1946) - Slovenia's first foreign minister
- Michael Sandel (* 1953) - philosopher
- Simon Sinek (* 1973) - author and management consultant
- Michael Walzer (* 1935) - philosopher
- William A. Ward (1928-1996) - Egyptologist
- Julie Weiss (* 1947) - costume designer
- Edward Witten (* 1951) - theoretical physicist, mathematician (winner of the Fields Medal )
Awards
The Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center at the Brandeis awards the Gabbay Award and Rosenstiel Award science prizes every year .
Ellsworth Kelly received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University (1963).
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.brandeis.edu About us> History
- ^ Brandeis University: Administration.Retrieved January 24, 2018
- ↑ http://colleges.startclass.com/q/1896/22/How-many-students-go-to-Brandeis-University ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://colleges.startclass.com/q/1896/22/How-many-students-go-to-Brandeis-University ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.brandeis.edu/about/alumni.html
Coordinates: 42 ° 21 '56.4 " N , 71 ° 15' 35.1" W.