Brandeis builds its connections to India
With recent events like the Intercultural Residency of musician Shubha Mudgal and a wide variety of academic and student initiatives, the University is deepening its ties to the world's largest democracy. Read more about Brandeis and India...
The business of sustainability
Justice Louis D. Brandeis once wrote of future businesses as those “big not in bulk or power but great in service and grand in manner.” A century later, the new “Green MBA” at the Brandeis International Business School will prepare the next generation of global corporate citizens. Author Tom Friedman '75 helped launch the program...(read more)
Internationalization and research
Anthropologist and former Brandeis Wien Scholar Arjun Appadurai ’70 inaugurated a university-wide discussion on the nature of global research – arguing for participatory, cross-border models. The renowned author of Modernity at Large is the founder of an India-based social change organization, PUKAR.
Multidisciplinary approaches
One of the University's most popular majors is International and Global Studies (IGS), a unique program that combines study in one of six specializations with an abroad requirement. Other global programs at Brandeis include a new dual degree in Sustainable International Development and Coexistence and Conflict...(more)
Social justice in action
Do you have an idea that could help change the world? At Brandeis, new funding for summer internships supports independent projects around the globe, from India to Indonesia...(more)
The hub -- for Israel Studies
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies is dedicated to promoting exemplary teaching and scholarship in Israeli history, politics, culture, and society; in addition to bringing cutting-edge thinkers to Brandeis, the Center offers fellowships to support new research...(more)
Partnerships for Change
At Brandeis, our connections with the world are two-way streets. Students who work, research and study abroad cooperate with local people and institutions to create social justice. Our faculty participates in international partnerships in search of knowledge-based approaches to issues of sustainable development. Our campus life pulses with events on world issues and with international students and visitors who in turn spread Brandeis zeal and learning to all points of the globe. And we use the bridges of arts and culture to build and sustain connections based on equality and mutual respect.
News and Features
>Call for papers: Women, Leadership, State, and Society (pdf)
>A letter on the Mumbai attacks; and the student response
>The Obama Administration and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
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