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Brandeis University
Brandeis University (pronounced /ˈbrændaɪs/) is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, United States, nine miles (14 km) west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200...
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James Pustejovsky
James Pustejovsky is a professor of computer science at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. His main topic of research is Natural language processing.
Pustejovsky proposed Generative Lexicon theory in lexical semantics. His other...
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Jehuda Reinharz
Jehuda Reinharz (born 1944) was the President of Brandeis University, where he is also Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History. On September 25th 2009 he announced his resignation from the presidency of Brandeis University
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Leó Szilárd
Leó Szilárd (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project. He was born in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in La...
Kurt Thoroughman
Kurt A. Thoroughman (born 31 January 1972) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his work in the study of motor control, motor learning, and computational...
Abram L. Sachar
Abram Leon Sachar (February 15, 1899 - July 24, 1993) was an American historian and university president. Born in New York City, his immigrant family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 where his grandfather served as a Chief Rabbi. After being...
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Joseph E.B. Lumbard
Joseph E.B. Lumbard is an American Muslim who is currently a professor at Brandeis University where he holds the title of Assistant Professor of Classical Islam in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Chair of the Islamic and Middle...
Jeffrey N. Agar
Jeffrey N. Agar is an assistant professor of chemistry at Brandeis University.
Agar's specialties are bioinorganic chemistry, namely iron-sulfur clusters in metalloproteins, and mass spectrometry. He currently focuses on high-resolution mass...
Florence Graves
Florence Graves is an American journalist and the founding director of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
She is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor whose work focuses on exposing abuses of...
Michael Fishbane
Michael A. Fishbane (born 1943) is a scholar of Judaism and rabbinic literature. Formerly at Brandeis University, he is currently the Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies at the Divinity School, University of Chicago.
Fishbane (Ph.D.,...
Jacqueline Jones
Jacqueline Jones (born 1948) is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. She is an expert in American social history in addition to...
Alexander Altmann
Alexander Altmann (April 16, 1906 – June 6, 1987) was an Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi born in Kassa, Austria-Hungary, today Košice, Slovakia. He emigrated to England in 1938 and later settled in the United States, working productively for a...
Fred Diamond
Fred Diamond (born November 19, 1964) is an American mathematician, known for his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. His research interest is in modular forms and Galois representations.
Diamond received his B.A. from the...
Harry Mairson
Harry George Mairson is a theoretical computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science in the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. His research is in the fields of logic in computer science,...
Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Nahum Norbert Glatzer (March 25, 1903 — February 27, 1990) was a noted American literary scholar, theologian, and editor.
Glatzer was born in Lemberg, then within the administrative boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv in the western...
Arthur Polonsky
Arthur Polonsky (born 1925) is an American draughtsman, painter and academic.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts to East European Jewish immigrants, Polonsky is a graduate of the Boston Museum School, where he was a student of Karl Zerbe. In 1947 he was a...
Ibrahim K. Sundiata
Ibrahim K. Sundiata is an American scholar of (West) African and African-American history. He received his undergraduate education at Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A., 1966), and a Ph.D. (1972) at Northwestern University, where he studied under Ivor...
Yehudi Wyner
Yehudi Wyner (born June 1, 1929 in Calgary, Alberta) is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator.
Wyner, who grew up in New York City, was raised in a musical family. His father, Lazar Weiner, was an eminent composer of Yiddish...
Mary Baine Campbell
Mary Baine Campbell (born Hudson, Ohio) is an American poet, scholar, and well-loved professor. She teaches medieval and Renaissance literature, as well as creative writing, at Brandeis University.
Olga Broumas
Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis), is a Greek poet, resident in the United States.
Born and raised in Greece, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania; she...
David Eisenbud
David Eisenbud (born 8 April 1947) is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and was Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) from 1997 to 2007.
Eisenbud received...
William E. Kapelle
William E. Kapelle (born in Baldwin City, Kansas) is a medieval historian at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He received his B.A at the University of Kansas in 1965, and completed his M.A. there five years later. Kapelle received his...
Kanan Makiya
Kanan Makiya is an Iraqi academic, who gained British nationality in 1982. He is the Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. Although he was born in Baghdad, he left Iraq to study architecture at...
Robert Keohane
Robert O. Keohane (born 1941) is an American academic, who, following the publication of his influential book After Hegemony (1984), became widely associated with the theory of neoliberal institutionalism in international relations. He is currently...
Timothy J. Hickey
Timothy J Hickey is a professor of computer science and Chair of the Computer Science and Internet Studies Program (INET) at Brandeis University. He was born on July 24, 1955.
Hickey's specialties include analysis of algorithms, logic programming...
Morrie Schwartz
Morris "Morrie" Schwartz (December 20, 1916 – November 4, 1995) was an American educator and author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays With Morrie, which published in 1997 and later made into a movie.
Schwartz was diagnosed with...
Anita Hill
Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956(1956-07-30)) is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and a former colleague of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence...
Samuel O. Thier
Samuel O. Thier (born 1937) is professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard University. He previously served as the president of Brandeis University from 1991-94 and the president of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1994-97.
Thier...
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Joshua Rifkin
Joshua Rifkin (born April 22, 1944 in New York) is an American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist. He is best known by the general public for having played a central role in the ragtime revival in the 1970s with the three albums he...
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