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Brandeis is a member of the Association of American Universities, which represents the leading research institutions in North America.Advancing Knowledge
Brandeis University’s motto, “truth, even unto its innermost parts,” aptly describes the research enterprise here. Whether it is historian David Hackett Fischer’s scholarship for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Washington’s Crossing,” or Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Dorothee Kern’s ground-breaking studies using nuclear magnetic resonance, Brandeis research is at the heart of many societal, artistic, intellectual and scientific advances.
Research at Brandeis is interdisciplinary, bold and collaborative. It’s an approach that enables the faculty to leverage the relatively small size of the university to achieve an impact well beyond the sum of its parts. Physicists developing microfluidic technology collaborate with biochemists researching a class of proteins critical to drug development. National health policy experts like Stuart Altman and Connie Horgan at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management generate bold research that is shaping the health-care debate at all levels of government. The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and the Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence collaborate to promote peace building in conflict regions through the arts.
Brandeis is wholly committed to the proposition that basic research is the engine of innovation in human health and well-being. Our science is fueling many societal improvements, among them food products that lower blood cholesterol, DNA tests that detect human and animal disease, including cancer and avian flu, and advances in treating neurodegenerative diseases.
Our faculty’s depth of talent is reflected in numerous awards, including multiple MacArthur “genius” grants, HHMI investigatorships and professorships, Pulitzer Prizes and membership in the National Academies of Science, among other honors.
Finally, the new humanities building being planned and the state-of-the art Carl J. Shapiro Science Center taking form on campus assure that Brandeis is poised to compete and succeed at the highest levels of the global research enterprise well into the 21st century.
